This is an install I did in CT, where many wells have sediment. This grit gets into the valves of your washing machine, sinks, shower heads, everything. The solution? Install a 5 micron sediment filter. This client also wanted a carbon filter as well. Carbon filters out taste, basically.
I used water filter units that have [...]
This is an install I did in CT, where many wells have sediment. This grit gets into the valves of your washing machine, sinks, shower heads, everything. The solution? Install a 5 micron sediment filter. This client also wanted a carbon filter as well. Carbon filters out taste, basically.
I used water filter units that have a neat valve on top that allows you to turn off the water at the unit, change the filter, and then turn the water back on easily. I like the clear plastic units because you can see when its time to replace the sediment filter. You can also tell when the filtler is needs changing when the water pressure in your shower drops significantly. The bare copper wire you see behind the filter units continues the ground connection of the water system. Many homes have a ground from the fusebox connected to the water main, which runs out into the yard, functioning as a ground. Because we used plastic units, the ground connection was broken, so we clamped in 10 gauge copper wire to make it all right.
A client’s house down by the Gowanus Canal was being flooded every time there was a major storm, when a large rain came, the toilets overflowed. Not Fun. This was happening because the storm drains in NYC connect to the sewer mains, and down by the canal you get all the water that is draining [...]
A client’s house down by the Gowanus Canal was being flooded every time there was a major storm, when a large rain came, the toilets overflowed. Not Fun. This was happening because the storm drains in NYC connect to the sewer mains, and down by the canal you get all the water that is draining down from Park Slope. That large amount of water has to go somewhere, and it backs up into the plumbing in the houses along the canal.
Installing a backflow preventer in the main sewer pipe in the basement prevents the water in the city main from backing up into the house line.
a nice plumbing repair in park slope
