Brain-eating Amoeba in Drinking Water Sounds like something right out of a B horror movie, doesn’t it? Just imagine the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals issuing a warning to residents to be aware of Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating Amoeba, in drinking water. Incredibly, residents in Louisiana don’t have to imagine, because that is exactly what [...]
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What is Thermal Expansion?
What is thermal expansion? The word thermal comes from the Greek prefix therm, which basically means heat. The Collins English Dictionary defines thermal as “relating to, using, producing, or caused by heat.” Thermal expansion is a term used to describe the concept that when solid, liquids, or gases are heated, they expand. In residential service plumbing, when we refer to thermal expansion, [...]
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Many of our Myrtle Beach plumbing customers have asked us “What is a Thermal Expansion Tank?” A thermal expansion tank is a small tank used to control excess water pressure from thermal expansion in a closed water heating system (radiant heating) and/or domestic hot water system. The International Plumbing Code (IPC), Standard Plumbing Code, [...]
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Myrtle Beach plumbing companies are preparing for what we all know is only weeks away. Our temperatures are dropping and the incoming water temperatures will be dropping too. The good news is that we will get cold water directly from our faucets. The bad news is that the drop in temperature will push some water [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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?” [...]
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It never ceases to amaze me that in plumbing service, water heaters will act up in cycles. This past week could very well have been deemed water heater week at Fogarty & Fogarty Plumbing Co., Inc. located in Murrells Inlet, Sc. We received a call to check a water heater that was not heating in [...]
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