Pioneer Plumbing Heating Inc Riley Park Vancouver
Riley Park Little Mountain is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its boundaries are 41st Avenue to the south, 16th Avenue to the north, Cambie Street to the west, and Fraser Street to the east. The main commercial thoroughfare of the neighbourhood is Main Street.
Riley Park
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Riley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Winter weather Tips
As cold weather approaches we get ready for plummeting temperatures and soaring heating costs. Past the higher utility bills cold weather can also bring additional expenses in the form of burst pipes and broken heating units. Here are five simple suggestions for protecting your bank account against winter costs.
Prepare Outside Taps
Prevent exterior pipes from breaking by protecting your outside faucets. Remove the garden hose and insulate the tap against freezing temperatures. Also make sure to insulate any exterior exposed pipes. Wrap the tap and pipes with insulating material like foam to surround it.
Protect Exposed Pipes in Utility Spaces
Homeowners often ignore protecting plumbing in utility spaces like the attic or basement; however these are generally also susceptible to freezing in extreme weather. Protect these areas from drafts whenever possible and dont forget to protect your pipes in these places as well.
Toilet Tips
To fix a leaky toilet is not hard once you get the basics. The first thing to fixing any predicament is to find what is creating it. And to try this we learn the basics of exactly how a toilet works.
The two main components in a toilet bowl would be the flapper and the float. The flapper is the large rubber stopper on the bottom of the tank that drops right down to seal the drain at the bottom when you flush. The float is the arm that floats upward as the water rises in the tank and so shuts off the water flow when it gets high enough.
These two components are the most typical things to replace and should be common knowledge to almost everyone living on their own nowadays. Floats are likely to spring a leak over time and need to be replaced on occasion and flappers lose their rubber consistency as time passes affecting the seal needing to get replaced when that happens. Youll know when its time since it will be obvious whats going on when the time arrives.
If you choose to fix the toilet or protect the pipes yourself we propose you use the following accessories. Tools youll need to repair most plumbing matters can be bought in the local hardware store. Some of the items you should have include:
Rubber gloves
A rubber plunger
Plumbers snake
Plumbing putty
A flathead as well as a phillips screwdriver
Simple cleaning products such as lemon juice and baking soda
Pliers
Adjustable pipe wrench
If you gather these tools over time youll soon have a decent collection that will come in handy for stuff like clearing a slow drain plunging the toilet and pulling hair from the shower drain. Simple tasks of this nature will save you quite a lot in plumbing fees should you take care of them by yourself.
If for any reason you find you couldt handle something and wish to contact a professional then click the link below for our suggested local plumbing company.