Our College Park Plumbers Are Skilled Specialists

Our College Park plumbers are trained and experienced in detecting problems with your pipes, gas lines, and fixtures. Some of the repairs we do are more common than others, and many can be avoided with a little preventative maintenance. Your fixtures are the most likely place where you will experience a plumbing problem of some kind. Toilets clog, sink faucets and handles break, gas dryers stop blowing heat. These are all common occurrences that we've been called in on numerous times.

How do you avoid these problems? Keeping your plumbing system modern and doing regular inspections and preventative maintenance are the best solutions. If any of the elements of your plumbing system are more than ten years old, you should replace them, especially hot water heaters or gas stoves. The fixtures made by Westinghouse, Kenmore, and Maytag were all reliable for their time, but today they are inefficient and those companies have been absorbed by Whirlpool. If you are still using decades old fixtures you're paying far too much for gas and electricity.

Your toilet is another fixture that should be replaced if it's getting older. Any toilet manufactured before 1992 is designed to use 3.5 gallons of water per flush. In 1992, the Energy Policy Act was passed right here in DC, changing the federally mandated flushing volume to 1.6 gallons. That means, if you still have a toilet made twenty years ago, you're consuming more than double the water you need to for flushing.

Your gas clothes dryer is another item that could use some repair or replacement. Many homeowners think that those knocking sounds or rocking motions coming from the dryer aren't serious, but you need to remember that it's a gas dryer. A break in any of those lines could cause a serious problem, asphyxiation, or an explosion. Don't take any chances. The gas dryer is one fixture you need to fix right away.