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To keep your pipes from freezing, the most important step is to close all crawl space foundation vents before the freezing winter weather starts. This keeps the cold winter air from blowing directly onto your water lines.

Next, buy foam pipe insulation sleeves from a local hardware store and wrap them around any exposed pipes in your crawl space or basement. During extremely cold nights when temperatures drop below freezing, leave a faucet dripping slowly (about 5 drops a minute). Moving water is much harder to freeze than water that is sitting still in a pipe, which helps protect your plumbing from bursting.

A Class A license is the highest level of contractor licensing given by the state of Virginia. To get this license, a plumbing company must prove to the state that they have years of experience, a clean business history, a strong financial background, and proper general liability insurance.

Hiring a Class A plumber guarantees that the company is qualified to handle major plumbing repairs, sewer line excavations, and commercial work. It also protects you as a homeowner, because it means the company is fully bonded and insured in case anything goes wrong during the repair.

Hard water contains high levels of dissolved minerals like calcium and magnesium, which is very common in many parts of Virginia. When this water gets heated up inside your water heater, the minerals separate from the water and stick to the hot elements.

Over time, these minerals build up a chalky white crust called scale. This crust insulates the heating elements, making it much harder for the water heater to warm up your water. This wastes energy, raises your utility bills, and can eventually cause the heating elements to burn out completely. Flushing out your water heater once a year is the best way to clean out this scale and protect your appliance.

Trenchless sewer repair is a modern method that allows us to fix or replace broken underground sewer lines without digging a long trench through your lawn, garden, or driveway. It is a much cleaner and faster process than traditional excavation.

Instead of digging up your yard, we insert a flexible liner coated in a strong epoxy glue into the old broken pipe from a small access hole. We inflate the liner so it presses against the walls of the old pipe, and then we let the glue cure and harden. This creates a brand-new, smooth, jointless pipe inside your old broken line, sealing leaks and blocking out tree roots for decades.

Backflow testing is a yearly check to make sure the safety valves on your water line are working correctly. These safety valves prevent dirty water from your lawn sprinklers, garden hoses, or boilers from flowing backward into your clean home drinking water supply.

In many parts of Virginia, local water companies require homeowners with lawn sprinklers or water filtration devices to have their backflow valves tested and certified once a year by a licensed technician. We can perform this test, confirm your valves are safe, and submit the required paperwork directly to your local water department.

Water leaks under your concrete floor foundation are called slab leaks. Because these leaks are hidden underground, they can go unnoticed for a long time, causing foundation damage or high water bills.

Some common warning signs of a hidden floor leak include: a sudden increase in your monthly water bill; hearing water running or hissing behind walls when all your faucets are shut off; finding damp spots or warm patches on your floors; seeing damp walls or peeling paint near baseboards; and finding water pooling along the outer edge of your home's foundation. If you suspect a leak, call us immediately and we will use electronic sensors to pinpoint the location of the break.