DIY Plumbing Video: How to do a Plumbing Safety Check

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Getting our expert advice on video in your home, courtesy of Experts In Your Home. And now you can, right here on our blog.

You can get started today by watching this video on how to do a plumbing safety check to prevent water damage and flooding in your home at several key vantage points.

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But there also is no doubt that Experts In Your Home customers are a proactive bunch who do their best to care for their homes and do the preventive maintenance that can keep their homes – and all the expensive appliances and equipment in them – in safe, efficient and otherwise peak condition.

This is why Experts In Your Home remains dedicated to educating our customers with articles like these on our website and now, with a video series. Our delivery style reflects our mission: to provide practical, sensible advice in a personable, friendly and encouraging manner. When you cannot have – or do not need – a home expert to step foot in your home, you can always count on our website for the next best way to glean the important information you need.

Video Features Straightforward Plumbing Tips

The Experts In Your Home plumbing safety check video targets four places around your home that warrant special attention: the kitchen, laundry room, bathroom and outdoor hose. The video recommends that homeowners take the following steps to safeguard their homes:

• In the kitchen: Check for three key danger signs under the sink: evidence of leaks, including discolored wood and especially puddling water; unbraided piping, which is potentially dangerous because it could bubble and pop (your pipes should be braided stainless steel); and old valves. A simple way to discern an “old” valve: yours should be a quarter-turn valve. If not, it's an older valve with a great potential for failure.
• In the laundry room: Look for old twist valves and rubber hoses, which could pierce and rupture. Again, you want a braided hose because it won't bulge and potentially rupture. 
• In the bathroom: Inspect the valves under the sink and near the toilet carefully. The valves should be quarter-turn and well sealed with tape, and the pipes should be braided and made of stainless steel.
• Outdoor pipe: Here's where it might be easiest of all to spot “valve trouble” because you might see moss gathering on or around the valve. This is a sure sign of a leak, so call the Experts so that we can prevent water damage from wreaking havoc both outside and inside your home.

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As always, we applaud and encourage our customers' can-do spirit. So if you think you can confidently make a plumbing repair on your own, by all means: do so. (Just don't forget to turn off the water first.)

But remember that no one can do everything around the house. Plumbing is a specialty, which is one reason why our licensed plumbers stick with what they know and do best – plumbing – and leave electrical repairs to Experts In Your Home licensed electricians and heating and air conditioning repairs to our HVAC experts. Our Chico plumbing experts are one phone call away – and one click away, too. And you're always one free quote away from getting any plumbing problem fixed with an expert in your home – and at your side.