South End Plumbing Heating & Air Expert Tips

Like other household appliances, water heaters have a limited lifespan. If you’re not sure whether or not it’s time to replace your home’s water heater, consider the following factors:

Age—most water heaters come with a 5 or 10-year warranty and will typically last even longer. However, if you’ve had your water heater for 15 or even 20 years, it’s probably time for a replacement.
Leaking—if your water heater has started to leak, there’s no completely effective way to stop it. If this is the case, you should call us at South End Plumbing right away to replace it to prevent flooding and other damage to your home.
Usage and Water Quality—as your family grows, you will use more hot water on a daily basis. If you’ve introduced more children into your family over the past few years, it’s important to remember that you’ll probably have to replace your water heater sooner than if the number of people in your household had remained the same.

If you’re like most people, you probably don’t pay much attention to what gets flushed down into the toilets of your home. However, without preventing certain items from going down into your drains from your home’s toilets, you could end up with a serious clogging issue on your hands. To prevent clogs from becoming a problem, make sure that you never flush these five common items down the toilet.

When Leaks Can’t Wait Whether it’s a small water leak in your bathroom or in another room of your home, you may think that it’s not really a big deal. However, there are several reasons why you shouldn’t let that leak go unrepaired and why you need to get it taken care of as soon … [Read More]

What is Regular Drain Cleaning Drain cleaning can be done on a preventative maintenance schedule or an as-needed emergency basis. Preventative maintenance is beneficial, in that it avoids costly backups and pipe damage that could result from buildup and serious blockages. Regular drain cleaning also extends the life of the pipes by removing corrosive materials … [Read More]

What The Drain Camera Sees Here at South End Plumbing, we take pride in leaving your home or business the same or better than when we found it. So often a plumber needs to access pipes behind walls, underground, or in other hard-to-reach areas that can leave quite a bit of repair work behind for … [Read More]

When Drain Snakes Don’t Cut it Have you ever had the experience of having drains that are slow to drain, that fill to overflowing, causing you to keep your handwashing sessions short? If this has ever happened to you, you may have started out by trying drain cleaners that were natural, like a combination of … [Read More]