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The Field Report
Dispatches from under the slab — what things actually cost, which noises matter, and when a repair stops paying.
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Latest6 min readwater quality
What Reverse Osmosis Takes Out of Valley Water, and What It Leaves
A membrane under the kitchen sink can strip most of what’s dissolved in Phoenix tap water. It can’t fix the rest of the house, and it sends a few gallons to the drain. Here is the whole trade.
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5 min readcommercial
The Cheapest Leak Is the One You Find on Paper, Not in Unit 112
How property managers and HOAs catch slab leaks and failing pipe early with meter comparisons, shutoff valve maps, resident reporting, annual walkthroughs, and a repipe plan built into the budget.
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5 min readhome buying
Scope the Sewer Before You Sign: What Home Inspectors Don’t Check
A standard home inspection stops at the foundation, and the sewer lateral runs beyond it. Why older Valley homes deserve a camera inspection before closing, what the video shows, and how to negotiate with it.
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5 min readcommercial
The Morning the Hot Water Didn’t Come: A Downtime Plan for Business
What fails in commercial water heaters and boilers, why Valley water shortens their lives, and how redundancy and planned replacement keep one failure from closing a hotel, gym, salon, or kitchen.
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5 min readtoilets
The Toilet That Runs All Night, and the Ten-Minute Diagnosis
A running toilet can waste hundreds of gallons a day without leaving a drop on the floor. How the tank works, the food-coloring test that finds the leak, and when a repair stops making sense.
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5 min readcommercial
The Annual Backflow Test Your City Remembers, Even If You Don’t
What a commercial backflow assembly guards against, why Valley water providers require an annual test, what happens during the test, and how to keep the paperwork from turning into a shutoff notice.
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5 min readwater pressure
The $10 Test for the Valve That Protects Every Pipe You Own
Most plumbing codes cap household pressure at 80 psi, and the city’s water owes you no such limit. What a pressure-reducing valve does, how it fails, and the overnight gauge test that catches it.
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5 min readcommercial
Grease Is a Scheduling Problem. Solve It Before Friday Night.
How fats, oils, and grease build up in restaurant drain lines, why cabling buys weeks while jetting buys months, and how to keep the work out of service hours and off the inspection report.
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5 min readdrains
The Drain Is Not a Trash Can: What Actually Clogs Your Pipes
Grease, “flushable” wipes, rice, coffee grounds, and hard water build nearly every clog we clear. What each one does inside the pipe, what the disposal can and can’t handle, and the habits that keep a drain open.
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6 min readsummer
What a 115-Degree Summer Does to Your Pipes, and What to Check
Phoenix heat warms your cold water, bakes attic lines, spikes pressure at the water heater, and hides leaks in the yard. What the heat does, and a one-hour June walk-around that catches most of it.
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2 min readrepiping
The Repipe Decision: When Patching Stops Paying
Every repair on a failing system is rational alone and expensive in sequence. How to tell a one-off from a pattern, and what the pattern costs to end.
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2 min readwater heaters
Your Water Heater Is Talking. Here Is a Translation Guide.
Every noise a water heater makes means something specific. A translation guide, ordered from “fine” to “move the boxes off the garage floor tonight.”
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2 min readwater heaters
Tankless vs. Tank: Running the Numbers on a Ten-Year Hold
Tankless water heaters are better technology and a worse deal than the brochures admit — depending entirely on your usage, your gas rate, and how long you plan to stay.
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2 min readhard water
Hard Water in the Valley: The Quiet Tax on Every Appliance You Own
Valley water is among the hardest in the country. The cost never arrives as one invoice — it arrives as a water heater at year nine, seized cartridges, and double the detergent.
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3 min readslab leaks
The $14,000 Drip: What a Slab Leak Actually Costs in Phoenix
A slab leak’s repair bill is rarely the problem. The floor, the drywall, the deductible, and the months of not knowing are. Here is the full arithmetic.
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2 min readslab leaks
How Water Line Leaks Become Slab Damage — and When to Interrupt the Process
The path from pinhole to foundation problem, what it looks like from above in homes and commercial buildings, and the two points where interrupting it is still cheap.
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2 min readwarning signs
Warning Signs You Need a Professional Plumber
The difference between a $150 visit and a $5,000 one is usually six months of ignored evidence. The signs, ranked by the cost of waiting.
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