The House Whisperer
Plumbing Tips on How to Treat Drain Blockage
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome back my friends! Let us start off today with some very appetizing objects. Hair, grease, fat, soap scum, food particles, all of these things and more go into your plumbing system daily, and can, over time, cause some serious issues. At one time or…
Does Your Home Have Galvanized Pipes for its Water Delivery System?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBaby Boomers Is your house a baby boomer? In other words, was it built before 1970? If so you may have a water delivery system that utilizes galvanized pipes in your home. Unfortunately, try as we might, we can’t always engineer for the future, and…
Got Zooglea? You Could Be Playing With an AC Disaster
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have all experienced the joy and happiness of coming home after a long day at work to walk in and, ugh the air conditioning is out. It’s 5:00 pm, the house is 86 degrees and to add insult to injury there is water all…
Joe and the Volcano
Reading Time: 2 minutesFriends, Romans, countrymen lend me your… wait wrong century. Welcome back faithful readers! As most of your know, I usually stand on my soapbox here and try to share some tidbits about air conditioning, plumbing or something else that can improve the quality of life…
Breathe Deep
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn our ongoing series of discussions concerning indoor air quality I would like to take a moment to discuss some of the options available to you for air filtration. As a recap, we have cleaned the coil in the air handler and we are keeping…
How Your Duct System Affects Indoor Air Quality
Reading Time: 3 minutesArt Plumbing and Air Conditioning’s House Whisperer points out an extreme example of duct deterioration while one of our installation technicians, Tony, looks on. In my last post on the Art Plumbing and Air Conditioning Blog, we started talking about the very serious problem of…
Blinded By The Light
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the world of modern home construction, our homes and buildings are being built more and more airtight which is leading to an unusual problem of indoor air pollution. Your home’s HVAC system is one of the biggest contributors to this growing problem. How can…
Water, Water, Everywhere!
Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s start off with some very scary words: trihalomethanes, chloramines, barium, chromium, chlorine, copper, lead & nitrates. If you made it through this first sentence you might be wondering where you can find all of these lovely things in one place, right? The answer is…
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo many of us have the privilege of living on or near the water here in the sunshine state, and while we take great enjoyment from the water, it does come with a often hidden bad guy. The Florida brown water rats and the black…
