Join our blog community and stay in touch to learn about our plumbing savings. We will update this section weekly with new plumbing deals for you to save with. If you have a request, jut drop us a comment and we will be glad to reply to you. To start with, Save $100.00 off any bathtub or shower unit replacement! Great savings for those of you who are looking to remodel your bathroom or are just looking to replace that old tub or shower.
Mobile homes, or manufactured homes are often in need of re-piping. Most older models 
have some form of polybutylene pipe underneath the home and behind the walls. Some even have plastic shut off valves and polybutylene supply lines. These shut off valves are notorious for not shutting off when you need them too; like when you have a leak and NEED them to shut off. And polybutylene pipe (or “poly” pipe as it is often referred to), is a nightmare waiting to happen. A spraying hole in a “poly” pipe line can ruin a floor in a very short time; the particle board underlayment absorbs the water, swells up, and the flooring buckles. An ounce of preventition is definitely the best policy here. The next step is to determine whether to repipe in plastic or copper. The high cost of copper pipe, and the difficulty of installation under a manufactured home, make Wirsbo plastic pipe an affordable and practical solution. With new brass shut off valves, and no-burst stainless supply lines, your new plumbing with last, for most of us, a lifetime-Wirsbo pipe has a 30 year warranty, that’s a better warranty that copper pipe.
If you want to be pro-active on your home repairs, and re-pipe BEFORE the flood, call us at Sav-On Plumbing for a free estimate. Call us today.
Has this ever happened to you? You’re in the shower and someone flushes a toilet and WOW, the water goes from pleasantly warm to scalding hot! Most likely, you have an old style, “non pressure-balanced” shower valve. This is not only annoying, it’s also a safety hazard. Imagine your mother-in-law; no, imagine YOUR mother getting scalded by by this burning hot water, unable to adjust the water temperature or get out of the way fast enough to avoid being burned. We all know how that would make us feel. The remedy to this entirely avoidable nightmare is a pressure balanced shower valve. When someone flushes a toilet, or turns on a faucet, this valve keeps the hot and cold water volumes “balanced”, so that any temperature change will be a minor one. The cost of avoiding the above described scenario is well worth the piece of mind it will deliver. Even if it’s not your mother (or mother-in-law), none of us like getting scorched by burning hot water when it is easily avoidable. Call us at Sav-On Plumbing; we will come out and give you a free estimate on replacing your shower or tub/shower valves with new “pressure balanced” ones.
Smelly water and brown water coming from your faucets can be, but are not always related. Oftentimes, when you get brown water from your faucets, the culprit is a piece of galvanized pipe that is going bad. “But I’ve got copper plumbing” you say. Many people have copper plumbing in the walls, but their angle stops valves are connected to a galvanized nipple coming out of the wall. And, many water heaters have galvanized nipples on top of them. The connection between the copper and the galvanized goes bad, and voila-here comes the brown water. At Sav-On Plumbing, we can track down the source of this brown water and remedy the situation. If left untreated for too long, it may involve replacing the water heater. These things are best repaired when they first appear. Smelly water, or water that smells like “rotten eggs” is usually a sign that the anode rod in the water heater has gone bad. This anode rod protects your water heater from corrosion from the inside out. This is definitely something you’ll want to get fixed ASAP. Sometimes this can be fixed by replacing the anode rod and treating the water heater with bleach water; other times the water heater must be replaced. Call us and we will examine your problem, and together come up with the best solution for your individual circumstance.
A “comfort-height” toilet is a toilet that is higher up from the floor than a standard height toilet. The height of a toilet is measured from the floor to the edge of the rim. Toilets vary in height from 14″ to 18″. If you are used to a toilet that is say 15″ or so, and install a toilet that is 14″, you will definitely notice that 1″ difference the first time you go to sit down, in fact that 1″ will seem more like a foot and you will probably feel like you’re going to fall. Generally speaking, your cheaper toilets tend to fall in the shorter range. Your taller toilets, or “comfort height toilets” tend to cost more; how much more depends on the quality of the toilet you purchase. A 16-1/2″ inch toilet is the most common toilet we sell. Our customers rave about how much easier getting on and off the “throne” is when it is the higher toilet. Since there aren’t any places where you can just go and try a comfort height toilet, you’re probably going to have to trust us on this claim. Check our reviews on Yelp,DexKnows.com and the testimonials on our web site. Then call us and we can discuss whether this is something you would like. These toilets also come as “water-saver” toilets. We recommend the 1.28gal per flush models. These toilets have a powerful flush, and use only 1.28 gallons. Call us today.
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