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The North Saskatchewan River supplies the Edmonton area with some of the best water in the world, but the river water is considered “moderately hard, about 165 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre on average” (Epcor). Hard water contains excessive[Read More...]

If getting a mainline backwater valve hasn’t made it onto your spring to-do list yet, now is a great time to add it. During seasons of heavy rainfall, Edmonton homes without sewer backflow valves are at risk of flooding from[Read More...]

You groggily shamble into the bathroom, use the toilet and flush it. After washing your hands, you start ambling back to bed, but in the distance, you can hear it. “Wait, was that…” you think. The “drip…drip…drip” grows louder and[Read More...]

Northern Alberta is under an Extreme Cold Warning with wind chill values of -40 to -45 expected to persist into Saturday. This is frozen and burst pipe weather. We’ve written about how to prevent and thaw frozen pipes, but what[Read More...]

November has arrived and with it, Old Man Winter. As temperatures continue to drop over the next couple of months homes in the Edmonton area will be at a greater risk of frozen pipes. Uninsulated pipes can freeze when temperatures[Read More...]