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How to Prepare Your Home for the Holidays
The holidays are a special time of year filled with family, friends, and festivities. But before you can truly enjoy the season, it’s essential to prepare your home to handle the extra activity—especially when it comes to your plumbing
Celebrate Earth Day with Sustainable Plumbing
As Earth Day approaches, there's no better time to reflect on our impact on the planet and how we can make a difference, even in the comfort of our own homes.
Preparing Your Home for Easter
Easter is a time to gather with loved ones, enjoy delicious meals, and create lasting memories. As you prepare to host Easter dinner in your home, ensuring everything is in perfect condition, including your plumbing, is essential.
Love Your Plumbing
As Valentine's Day approaches, love is in the air, but have you shown some love to your plumbing lately? At Pride Plumbing of Rochester, we believe that taking care of your plumbing system is a way to show appreciation for your home and loved ones.
Winter Plumbing Tips
As the winter chill sets in, ensuring your plumbing is prepared to withstand the cold temperatures is essential.
New Year, New Pipes!
As we bid farewell to another year and usher in the promise of a fresh start, it's not just our personal lives that could use a resolution or two.
Preparing Your Plumbing for the Holiday Season
As the holiday season approaches, our homes become the gathering place for family and friends. Here we review essential tips to prepare your plumbing for the upcoming celebrations.
Fall Plumbing Tips
As the seasons transition, there are specific steps you can take to ensure your plumbing is in top shape for the colder months ahead. Here are some essential fall plumbing tips to help you keep your home comfortable and trouble-free.
Common Sewer and Drain Service Issues
When it comes to your home's plumbing, one aspect often remains out of sight and out of mind: your sewer and drainage system. However, from minor inconveniences to major headaches, sewer and drain problems can disrupt your daily life. In this blog, we'll explore some common sewer and drain service issues.
Dealing With Leaking Pipes
Leaking pipes can quickly turn from a minor inconvenience into a major plumbing disaster. Whether a slow drip or a sudden gush, a leaking pipe demands immediate attention. This post explores the common causes of leaking pipes, discusses preventive measures, and provides actionable solutions to help you tackle this issue effectively.
Summer Heat Can Strain Plumbing Systems
Summer is a season of fun and relaxation, but it can also put a strain on your home's plumbing system. As the temperatures rise and activities increase, it's essential to take proactive measures to prevent plumbing issues and ensure a worry-free summer. We review several simple steps everyone can take to protect their pluming system from the summer heat and avoid costly repairs.
Hard Water Damage:
As groundwater moves through soil and over rocks, mainly limestone, it picks up and dissolves different minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and other metals.
Choosing the Best Water Heater for Your Home:
What does taking a shower, running your dishwasher, and doing laundry all have in common? They’re some of the many daily tasks that require hot water. Your water heater is responsible for providing the hot water your faucets and appliances need.
Your Bathroom and its Fixtures:
Most of us start and end our day in the bathroom. We brush our teeth before work and unwind in the shower afterward, often making stops in between. Keeping your bathroom running smoothly keeps your routine on track as well. While using your bathroom to take care of yourself, don’t forget to take care of your bathroom, too.
Scalding Prevention
Burns can be caused by dry or wet heat. Dry heat would be from a fire or surface like a hot stove. Damp heat is from hot liquid or steam. Burns caused by wet heat are called scalds. Scalds happen quickly and can cause second and third-degree burns. Like burns caused by dry heat, large enough scalds can be fata
Plumbing During a Pandemic
Here at Pride Plumbing of Rochester, we understand that things are changing daily with COVID-19 and we want to provide you with some proactive plumbing tips. We are all feeling uneasy during these unprecedented times, but your plumbing systems do not have to suffer!
Top 3 Filtration Systems
Do you want to save big on filtration systems that can make your water incredibly pleasant to drink, make your hair and skin healthier, and benefit your dishes and clothes while positively impacting your plumbing system? Who doesn’t? Thankfully, you’re in luck!
Top 5 Benefits of a Tankless Water Heater
There are many factors to consider when purchasing a water heater. What size should you get? Should it be a gas water heater or an electric water heater? What type of maintenance has to be performed to keep the water heater in tiptop shape? When Pride Plumbing’s licensed professional plumbers come to your house to do a job regarding water heaters, he will give you the information you need to properly choose what type is right for you.
Faucet Repair or Replacement?
If your faucet is malfunctioning, how do you know if you should repair or replace it? This blog will teach you the ins and outs of faucet repairs and replacements.
Do You Want a New Bathroom Faucet?
Are you looking to update your bathroom faucet? It’s a good time to do so because your licensed plumbers at Pride Plumbing of Rochester have a deal of the month for July.