DIY Tips

DIY Tips Remove your outdoor hoses before it gets too cold! Don’t forget to disconnect your hoses from your outdoor water spigots before it’s too late! Leaving your hoses connected can cause your pipe to burst on the inside and you could be completely unaware that it...

DIY Tips Don’t put potato peels in your garbage disposal! Getting rid of your potato peels seems like the perfect job for your garbage disposal, right? Wrong! Here’s why: Usually your potato peels do not get ground up quite enough by the garbage disposal. They tend to...

DIY Tips Is your toilet leaking? Color your tank to find out! If you think your toilet is leaking, there is a really easy DIY way to find out! Add some food coloring to the tank. If your flapper is leaking, the color will show up in the bowl. That’s a quick and easy...

DIY Tips Don’t flush feminine products or condoms down the toilet! Do we really not know this by now? Yes, it clogs the toilet! Believe it or not, toilets clogged with feminine products is a weekly call for us at The Good Plumber. And we are removing a pile of condoms...

DIY Tips Don’t run your water heater at its highest setting! We all love our hot showers, right? But, keeping your water heater running on its highest setting is not good for many reasons: This causes more wear and tear on all the components, including the burner and...

DIY Tips Sanitize your garbage disposal. Don’t you hate it when your garbage disposal starts to smell and you’re SURE you ran it until it was empty the last time? Here is a quick Do-It-Yourself way to sanitize your garbage disposal and get it smelling fresh &...

DIY Tips Shut off your main water supply when you go on vacation! When we’re headed out on vacation, all we can think about is how excited we are to get there, right? It’s a good idea to have a check list of things to do before you leave the house to keep your...