The small damage is usually something like a drippy relief valve.

Bigger damage is someone leaving the faucet on, and rushing out the door.

More common when the parents shout

“Did you make yet?!”

The worst I saw was mold damage from an indirect water heater coil rupturing.

The water heater and piping in your home runs anywhere between 40-60psi. If you have less than 40psi, I apologize.  We should get that corrected. If you have more than 60psi, lucky you.

Consider donating to those with not enough water pressure

In any case, the rupture. The boiler loop that passes through the heater to heat the water in the tank up indirectly (aka the reason its called an indirect water heater), runs at a max pressure of 30psi.

So now here’s what happened.

The water from the tank (40-60psi) pushed through the little itty bitty hole into the boiler water which relief valve relieves itself at 30psi. The people had not only mold from water but mold from hot steam on every surface the steam can cling to.

It’s one of those houses that I shake my head as we pass every few days and say, “What if they had a Moen Flo?”

On the surface, a moon Flo is simple.  I bet you can install one. It’s like arts and crafts.

See the photo of it installed, and then see the video from Moen!

Click here for the video

Thank you for reading,

Your comfort specialist,

Moe

We are watching concrete being poured today. It’s like watching a baker make a cake or a florist prepare flowers.

The client spent a significant amount of money to tear up the floor, lower it, level it, insulate it, and have us install Uponor radiant heat tubing.

This is a radiant heat system in a 125ft x 54ft barn. We computer generated the layout and installed it using Creatherm S45 insulated panels. 

The job costs X amount of money regardless of who does it. No matter how free or cheap someone does a job for you, the concrete company costs money, the tubing supplier needs to get paid, and the insulation and wire mesh isn’t free.

So the cost of doing the job is really X+Y. What’s the Y? The Y is the incremental difference between the lowest bidder and the one doing it right.

Cats have 9 lives, but you only have one shot at radiant tubing. That’s before the flooring gets poured or installed. 

Plumbing, heating and cooling services are not commodities. You get what you pay for.

Your Main Man, 

Moe

My name is Moe and I am about to change that image completely!

To me and my company plumbing is about the health of your family. Think what would happen if sewage wasn’t flushed away, drains did not have p-traps on them to prevent sewer gasses, and water from your tap was unsafe to drink, cook with or bathe in.

Plumbing is about comfort. Take a tempered shower, brush your teeth and rinse with clean warm water. Cook your food using a gas range and not a pile of wood or coal that has harmful smoke in your home like a third world country.

We look forward to hearing your comments, questions, suggestions to make this and all articles geared towards YOU, the reader.

Faucets, toilets, pipes.  When you hear the word “plumbing” that’s probably what comes to your mind. You possibly imagine a truck or van pulling up to a house with two work-men wearing tan Timberland boots and open laces, a one-size-too-large t-shirt, and dirty hands popping out of the front doors to get the job done as quickly as they can without even giving you their names. My name is Moe, and I am about to change that image completely!

When we come to you, the image we want you to see is a helpful friend, who cares about you, your family, your business, and your comfort, pulling up in your driveway to take care of your needs.

To me and my company, plumbing is about the health of your family. Think what would happen if sewage wasn’t flushed away, drains did not have p-traps on them to prevent sewer gasses, or if water from your tap was unsafe to drink, cook with, or bathe in. We want to ensure that you never have to worry about that.

Plumbing is about comfort. It is about taking a tempered shower, brushing and rinsing your teeth with clean warm water, and cooking your food using a gas range instead of a pile of wood or coal that gives off harmful smoke in your home like a third world country.

 We want to help you and your quality of life through our plumbing services so that you are able to live at optimal comfort.

We look forward to hearing your comments, questions, and suggestions so that we can make this website and all articles geared towards YOU, the reader.

We look forward to hearing your comments, questions, suggestions to make this and all articles geared towards YOU, the reader.

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This may sound bland, however I see this every day. The classic conversation is as follows:

Client: Moe, What do you think about XYZ equipment?

Moe: It’s a good product, however where are you planning to install it?

Client: I have a job, building, business, home, etc.

Moe: Well it’s a good product, but it is the wrong product for that application.

Let’s use the case of a combi boiler or indirect hot water heater. Without putting a brand on the pedestal, the product may be perfect for one application and terrible for another. The appliance may work a long lifespan when applied correctly and a short, maintenance-filled, lifespan if it is installed in the incorrect scenario.

The above goes for anything from faucets to mini split heat pumps, or from boilers and radiant to forced air. Every plumbing, heating and cooling appliance, fixture, and part has an application. Misuse of the appliance in a manner that the manufacturer or designer did not intend to have it used, will have the outcome of a miserable failure of the product and will cost lots of money to keep it running.

This my friends, is why brands and types of appliances get bad names. I have a line I always say when someone complains about a piece of equipment or brand.

There is no such thing as bad appliances, only miss-installed and poorly applied. – Moe

If you are like me and have central air conditioning in your home, condo or office, the last thing you like is when it doesn’t work. From all the repairs, short of a blown compressor, I would venture to say that a refrigerant leak is the second to last issue you want to hear of. The leak can be anywhere from the indoor machine to the outdoor area where the condenser is. It could possibly be between the two on the lineset (piping) between the two. The leak can stem from bad connections to wear and tear or maybe even from a nail in the pipe.

VIDEO BELOW!

Effects of a refrigerant leak go far beyond the cost of the replacement of the “gas”. Oil leaves the system with the refrigerant. The gas evaporates and the oil leaves a mess. The oil is no longer inside your system where it lubricates the components. Wear and tear and diminished equipment life is a result of this.

Take matters further: Keeping it brief, the way a refrigerant system is charged up is by pulling a vacuum on the current system and while under, vacuum, releasing the refrigerant into the pipes. BUT WITH A HOLE IN THE PIPE IN AN UNKNOWN LOCATION, HOW DO YOU PULL A VACUUM?!

Two fixes to eliminate or reduce a leak in any refrigerant based cooling system: (minisplit heat pumps, convention central air, etc.)

1. Follow good practices when installing.

2. Chiller style system. Keep all the refrigerant in a small sq ft location, and distribute the BTU with chilled water piping.

Watch the video for a more in depth. Come back here soon for more on this and everything heating and cooling!