Did I get your attention? Are you wondering if I mistakenly wrote ‘Plumber’ instead of ‘Doctor?’ According to a poll conducted in 1999 by the British Medical Journal, the most important medical advance since 1840 is . . . drum roll please . . . proper sanitation (clean water & sewage disposal). Sanitation ranked [...]
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Are You Tired of Waiting for Hot Water? Part II
Fogarty & Fogarty Plumbing Co. installed a hot water re-circulating pump in our home and we no longer wait several minutes for hot water. The re-circulating pump is installed at the water heater and a bypass valve is installed at the furthest fixture from the water heater. In our case, this was our children’s bathroom [...]
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“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The [...]
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Prior to moving to Myrtle Beach, SC, I never had to wait too long for hot water. When I turned a faucet on hot, hot water quickly followed. When I turned a faucet on cold, the water was cold. Life was nice and everything worked just as expected. When it came time to buy a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What Can I Do to Save Money on Professional Plumbing Costs?
As a homeowner and/or property owner, there are definitely some things that you can do yourself to save money. Please keep checking back in the DIY section of this blog for more articles related to saving money. Clogged toilets and running toilets are common complaints we hear from homeowners and/or property owners in Myrtle Beach, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Should I Try Drano to Unclog a Sink Drain Before Calling a Plumber?
Hmmm . . . Let me think about that one for a minute. Okay, I thought about it. The quick answer is ‘NO,’ and if you are like me, you are wondering “Why not?” After all, Liquid Plumber and Drano have been around for years, so it must work, right? Let me share a few [...]
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In Myrtle Beach, SC we have a LOT of vacation and rental properties with absentee owners. If you are an out of state owner with vacation and/or rental property in Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield, or Pawleys Island, please be very careful when hiring contractors to work in your vacation and/or [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Rheem HP50RH Heat Pump Water Heater
This past fall Rheem, a leading provider of water heaters since the 1920′s, introduced their NEW hybrid heat pump water heater. Due to demand, Rheem has come out with a 40 gallon model as well. Now you might be wondering “What is a heat pump water heater?” and “Will Myrtle Beach, SC plumbers install them?” [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Clogged Toilets in Garden City, SC
It’s truly amazing what our plumbers at Fogarty & Fogarty Plumbing located in Murrells Inlet, SC find in clogged toilets. Within the last few weeks, The Plumber Who Cares has retrieved a few items from toilets that could not be retrieved until the toilet was pulled. A cell phone – YES, we retrieved a cell [...]
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