Happy and healthy vacations to all our blog readers and customers. Don’t forget to take care of your biggest investment while you are away from home. Remember to turn your main water valve off to your home. The cause for a costly and upsetting repair could be a silly weak link to your water system or heat system…. And you will not be home to prevent considerable damage. I personally had an expansion tank leak the day before I went on a weeklong ski trip last year. If it happened while I was away there would have been a flood. For winter vacations we all need to take another step. If the heat shuts down while you are away, how will you prevent freezing pipes and damage behind walls?  There are many options from easy and inexpensive home owner friendly ways that can alert you of a problem or an alarm that sends a signal to an alarm company. Whichever way works best for you please take precautions so you end you vacation without any problems.  And, of course, if you need help with valves or want to learn more you can call or email us.

Most people only replace their toilets when they are broke, but if you are proactive you can save alot of water and money by installing a new water saving toilet.

Overall U.S. Water-Savings Estimate

If all U.S. households installed water-saving features, water use would decrease by 30%. This would save an estimated 5.4 billion gallons of water per day, resulting in daily dollar-volume savings of $11.3 million or more than $4 billion per year.

Water-efficient fixtures installed in U.S. households in 1998 alone saved 44 million gallons of water every day, resulting in total annual dollar-value savings of more than $33.6 million.

• Average household water use annually: 127,400 gallons
• Average daily household water use: 350 gallons

The largest daily user of water in the home is the toilet. By replacing this one product with a 

high-efficiency toilet(HET) you can greatly affect your total water usage.

Source: American Water Works Association Research Foundation, 

Did you know that with current rebates, tax credits and our Papalia plumbing coupon you can install a tankless on-demand Rinnai water heater for approximately the same cost of the old conventional tank type water heaters. Call today – Save tomorrow!

Papalia plumbing is proud to announce it’s new blog. This will serve as a way for Papalia to publish plumbing maintenance tips, money saving ideas, and more. Check back soon for the latest from the Papalia Blog!

-the Papalia Team