What’s Inside a PRV (Pressure Reducing Valve) and Why They Fail You may have never noticed the small bell-shaped device that sits quietly inside your home, but the PRV – Pressure Reducing Valve – plays a big role in protecting your home from pipe bursts and flooding. PRV’s: Pressure Reducing Valve versus Pressure Relief Valve…
California has some of the strictest environmental codes and standards in the nation, most with the best of intentions to maximize air and water quality, which in turn improves the standard of living for all Californians. If you live in the city and are planning any home improvement projects in the years ahead, some recent…
If your home has a garbage disposal system in the kitchen, which camp are you in? No matter how much you use your garbage disposal, it’s important to properly maintain it – for the safety of the plumbing system and the health of everyone in your home. Before we begin – let’s remind ourselves of…
What to Expect During a Trenchless Sewer Replacement Sewage – it ain’t pretty but it is one of the miracles of modern plumbing. Be it dirty water from the shower, washing machine or kitchen sink, not to mention the toilet, it just magically whisks away in an instant. But what happens when that doesn’t happen?…
U-shaped sewer line traps are required in every home or business in San Francisco. Today we’ll discuss what they are, where you can find them, and the common signs that the time has come to replace them. What is a House Trap? This piece of U-shaped plumbing does exactly what the name implies – waste…
Are flushable wipes flushable? No! And if you don’t read another word in this article, we’ve done our job. If you can’t flush a flushable wipe, why can they call themselves ‘flushable’? Marketing lingo gets these products off on a technicality. While you ‘can’ flush them down the toilet, it doesn’t mean you should. The…
Let’s face it – when you flush the toilet, you want whatever is in the bowl to magically disappear, never to be seen again… right? Well, it takes a working sewer line to get the job done, by which we mean quickly and efficiently transferring waste water and other intended materials through a sewer pipe…
Helpful Info about your main water shut-off valve Most every house, condo unit, and apartment will have two vital connections to the city’s water supply – the city connection and main water shut off valve. What is the difference between the city water line connection and the main water shut off valve? The city connection,…
The plumbing and electrical systems within your house or commercial property are not completely separate operations. Quite often, it takes skilled and licensed contractors from several coordinated trades to complete major project installations, upgrades and repairs. Ace Plumbing and Rooter of San Francisco is now a fully licensed electrical contractor, tested and certified by the…
Modern plumbing is one of the great wonders of both modern engineering and human evolution. It blends so seamlessly into our lives that “flows like tap water” is synonymous with simplicity. But behind the clean potable water we rely upon every day for drinking, cooking, baths, showers and laundry there’s an intricate system of supply…
