Georgia and Atlanta Plumbing code requires the installation of an expansion tank on water heater installations.
Why? Water expands when heated. This extra volume of water needs to go somewhere… Newer homes use backflow preventers, check valves and pressure reducing valves which push the expanded cold water back into the city water main. [...]

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As I write this article (February 2009) the market value of houses here in Atlanta is down dramatically from where it was about 2 years ago. Some Atlanta homeowners are finding that their houses will now only sell for half of what they would have fetched in 2007. So, with the Atlanta housing market in [...]

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In the late 1970’s an inexpensive new type of plumbing pipe made of plastic polybutylene resin emerged as an extremely popular alternative to copper piping. Polybutylene pipes were not only very cheap to manufacture, but they were also easy to install. So Atlanta Plumbers used them in about 25% of the homes that [...]

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In Atlanta, Georgia (where I’ve spent my career as a plumber) the average low temperatures usually only flirt with the freezing point of water in January and February. Atlanta’s average low is 31 degrees in January and 34 in February. Here in Atlanta (and probably everywhere else too) water freezes at 32 degrees. So Atlanta [...]

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