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What to Do About Tree Roots in Your Sewer Pipes

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Tree roots are always digging, digging, digging, looking for water, and often they can find nice constant source from inside your sewer lines! If tree roots get into the pipes, you can expect sewage backup. Needless to say, this is unsanitary and unwanted.

Resist the impulse to buy a 'quick and easy' root-killing liquid in the store. Often these only partially work, work temporarily, or don't work at all.

Tree roots find your sewer lines in the first place by zeroing in on the consistent moisture in the soil around your pipes. So here's a way to make the soil around your pipes unpleasant to tree roots, so they never go near your pipes in the first place!


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How to Select a New Water Heater

You have a lot to consider when choosing a new water heater for your home. You should select a water heating system that will not only provide enough hot water but that will also so in an energy-efficient way. this will save you money. You should consider the different types of water heaters available and determine the right size and fuel source for your home.
From the US Dept. of Energy

Types of Water Heaters
Keep in mind the different types of water heaters available before you purchase one:

Conventional storage water heaters
Offer a ready reservoir (storage tank) of hot water

Demand (tankless or instantaneous) water heaters
Heats water directly without the use of a storage tank

Heat pump water heaters
Moves heat from one place to another instead of generating heat directly for providing hot water

Solar water heaters
Uses the sun's heat to provide hot water

Tankless coil and indirect water heaters
Uses a home's space heating system to heat water

Selection Criteria
When choosing the best type and model of water heater for your home, you also need to consider the following:

Fuel type, availability and cost
The fuel type or energy source you use for water heating will not only affect the water heater's annual operation costs but also its size and energy efficiency.

Size
To provide your household with enough hot water and to maximize efficiency, you need a properly sized water heater.

Energy efficiency
To maximize your energy and cost savings, you want to know how energy efficient a water heater is before you purchase it.

Costs
Before you purchase a water heater, it's also a good idea to estimate its annual operating costs and compare those costs with other less or more energy-efficient models.

If you have any questions about choosing a new water heater, Cave Dave at (909) 592-5855 or  (626) 334-3533, or visit Here.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hot Water Holidays!

Time to Upgrade your Water Heater?

Hoping you all had a WARM and Merry Christmas!

From your helpful friends at Budget Rooter Plumbing.





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Don't Pour Your Holiday Grease Down the Drain!

Now that cold weather is here – just a reminder – don’t dump a whole lot of garbage down your sink. And especially in combination with warm grease!

Warm grease will usually flush out, but if it hits cold pipes, it will solidify, creating a nasty clog. And then more gunk will clog up behind it.

Although we stand ready to clean your pipes at any time, you can avoid a holiday call to your friendly Budget Rooter plumber by pouring grease into jars and garbage into the trash or compost.

See here for more cheap plumbing tips.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a Great Thanksgiving Holiday!

If you have any post-dinner plumbing problems, you know who to call!

Halloween Plumbing Problem: Pumpkin Pulp Will Scare Your Disposal to Death

Americans will scrape millions of pounds of pulp from pumpkins throughout the Halloween season and plumbers across the country will remove gobs of it from clogged drains before the end of the Halloween season. Local plumbers have become as common a Halloween visitor as little vampires or ghosts thanks to sticky pumpkin pulp and seeds. Plumbers know that frantic homeowners will soon be complaining about pulp-clogged garbage disposals and stopped up kitchen sink drains in the two weeks leading up to Halloween.

Jack-o'-lantern carvers should remember that pumpkin pulp should never be put down drains or into garbage disposals. The slimy gunk is ideal for clogging sink drains.
It's stringy and sticky and when it dries and hardens it will choke-off drainpipes and garbage disposals creating all sorts of havoc.

For the past few years we've spread the word that carving pumpkins in the sink is a very bad idea. People think that when they shove the pulp down kitchen sink drain that it's gone but in a little while the sink usually stops draining altogether.

More plumbing questions answered here.