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A nice, hot morning shower. It’s how Canada wakes up and starts the day. But if you’re having problems with your hot water tank, you may end up having more cold showers than you’d like. Keep reading for eight signs that your tank is on its way out.

Your health depends on proper sanitation. During natural disasters and intense emergencies, people lack proper waste disposal methods and infectious diseases quickly spread. The microorganisms contained in human waste can easily enter—and damage—the body through contaminated water and food.

Your morning shower helps wake you up and get ready for the day, but that daily hygiene habit becomes annoying and dangerous when you do it in standing water. If the shower's drain is clogged, the water backs up and covers your feet. In those conditions, you could easily slip or fall. And even if you don't, it's unpleasant to have dirty water sloshing around your feet.

Alberta residents cannot live comfortably through the winter without a furnace. For example, Edmonton's coldest month is January when average temperatures range from lows of -19 to highs of -8 degrees Celsius (-2 to 17.6 degrees Fahrenheit). With those frigid temperatures outside, Albertans need a well-functioning furnace to create a cozy home where they can escape the cold.

Many people think that conserving water requires a significant investment. They might think about installing new ENERGY STAR–rated appliances, using rain barrels, or buying new on-demand tankless water heaters. While all these options represent great ways to reduce water consumption (and they often save you a lot of money over time), you can also employ small, simple strategies to conserve your water usage.

Your sister, her husband, and their kids will arrive next week. As excited as you feel to host their growing family, you worry about how your plumbing will handle washing more hands, flushing more waste, and draining more bathwater.

Your sister and brother-in-law plan to come to town for a visit, along with their small army of children. Of course you offer up your guest bedroom and camp cots for their stay. As the date approaches though, you notice how slowly your sinks drain, how quickly the hot water runs out in the kitchen, and how particularly your garbage disposal behaves.

How much do you know about your current heating system? If you live in an older or historic home, maybe you rely on your radiator each winter. Or, perhaps you live in a newer home with a traditional forced-air furnace.

As a homeowner, you're familiar with the feeling of dread that settles in your stomach when you look up to see a leaky, yellow patch in the ceiling. Your mind immediately leaps to the cost of the damage and repairs. You probably also wonder how you'll locate the source of the leak, and how to stop the leaking once you've found it.

Water supply, heat and sanitation are crucial components to any residential or commercial property. These little drains, fixtures, pipes and fittings may not seem like a big deal but they make all the difference when they go awry.

Your home's heating and cooling systems may be behind the scenes, but they influence your happiness at home as much or more than a cozy couch and well-painted walls. Like Goldilocks and the three bears, you don't want to be too cold or too hot.

At home, you spend most of your time somewhere other than your bathroom. Bathrooms are functional spaces, so most people don't linger in them longer than the time it takes to brush their teeth or wash their hands.

You shake the snow from your gloves, kick the built-up ice off your boots, and head inside after your daily snow shoveling routine. Your stomach rumbles and your mind concocts images of a warm gourmet meal you hope is waiting on your dinner plate. You round the corner and sit down at the kitchen table. Soup again.

During the 2013 - 2014 North American cold wave, North America experienced one of the most extreme winters to date. The cold wave was caused by southward shifts of the North Polar Vortex and led to record-low temperatures, road closures, flight cancellations, power outages, frozen pipes, and flooded houses. Some homeowners were trapped inside for days at a time, without functioning heat or plumbing.

When you own your own home, you can tailor the space to fit your personality. You can also choose how much you want to spend in upkeep. Many homeowners focus more on making a home look nice than they do making sure it will last for the next generation. They usually wait for a problem to become serious before they make any changes.

When you struggle to wake up in the morning, a nice hot shower is a great way to start your day. So when you step in the shower and find freezing water instead of steamy luxury, it can make you want to call the day a loss and crawl right back in bed.

It’s your worst nightmare. As a guest in someone’s home, you try to flush their toilet, only to be met with a rising water level that is now threatening to spill over. You reach behind the horrible thing and shut off the water valve just in time to stop an overflow, but now you’re left with a toilet filled to the brim with dirty water.

A garbage disposal is a must-have in any kitchen. It’s perfect for easy cleanup, and when used properly it can keep your drains clear of food. However, a garbage disposal is not a chainsaw – it doesn’t chop through everything!

Spring and summer are a wonderful time. You don’t have to scrape ice from your windshield before work or shovel snow. It’s prettier too, with flowers and trees in bloom and growing again.

Water preservation has become increasingly important in recent decades. As a homeowner, you know you should conserve water as much as possible, especially in the summer. But how do you go about doing so? Many water-saving solutions are inexpensive or free. Follow these tips this summer to save your water and your money.

“Ready, set, save!” are the three little words every penny-pinching homeowner hopes to adhere to. In today’s world, nickels and dimes add up fast. This is why our modern mentality revolves around one very important object: cash. We need cash.

You and your family just returned home from vacation. You're tired, but happy to be home. As you turn the doorknob and go inside, you smell an unpleasant, sulfuric odour. Is it your sewer drain, or some other problem? You feel unsure.

If you already have a hard time getting around, whether from age or disability, you don’t want to worry about bath safety too. But a bathtub’s soothingly warm water is much harder to enjoy when you worry about slipping and falling when you enter or exit the tub...read more.

Drains are fantastic modern marvels but they do have a number of intolerances. If you insist on forcing stuffs down them that they have a natural aversion towards, eventually you’ll pay the price. Clogged drains stink—sometimes quite literally. However, the majority of blockages our Edmonton plumbers get summoned to fix can easily be prevented. Avoid throwing these items in your sinks and toilets and you may never again require professional drain cleaning or a plumbing contractor in Edmonton.

Summer is officially here. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and the days are getting longer. If you haven’t already, it’s time to get cracking on your summer-cleaning. As you’re going about your home scrubbing and scouring, purging and ordering, don’t forget to give your plumbing some attention. Companies in Edmonton like ours will tell you that preventative action can help ensure your pipes, drains, and other plumbing is in good working order for the rest of the year.

There’s nothing like a plumbing problem to interrupt the normal flow of business. But don’t let embarrassing drain difficulties ruin your reputation. Keep reading to learn more about five common commercial plumbing problems and the solutions that plumbing contractors in Edmonton recommend.