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Helpful tips for handy people
If you are a Cincinnati DIYer, Allied Reddi-Rooter has insights and how-to articles to help. Check out our library, and if you don’t see a topic that you would like covered, let us know. It will be next on the list to be published.
Cincinnati drain cleaning - To flush or not to flush?
We love our toilet – flushing ‘stuff’ down the drain is so very satisfying. Although our conventional wisdom is “if you wouldn’t eat it,...
Restaurant bathroom ads... A Cincinnati Plumbers dream!
Any Cincinnati business that seeks to advertise must weigh cost vs conversion potential, or expense balanced against the payoff. For...
Garbage Disposals: Best Kitchen Tool Ever!
With six people in our household, our garbage disposal is used from dawn until late in the evening. We LOVE our disposal. It's a...
In a "FOG" about your Restaurant Grease Trap?
A recent walk through downtown Cincinnati from 4th Street to 13th Street was an eye-opener. The downtown restaurant scene is rapidly...
Clog Main Drain/Sewer Line? Two Main Culprits
If you suspect your main line is clogged, look for these signals from your home: • Gurgling noises/bubbling in your drains or...
Exterior Faucets - Did yours weather winter weather?
For the past few years, we've been having mulch delivered from a local high school football team. The football players deliver it to our...
Water Heater Elements: The Building Block of Electric Hot Water Heaters
40% of American water heaters run on electricity, not gas. Thinking visually, a plumbing pyramid (if there is such a thing) consists of a...
Water Wasting 101: It's Curable!
Celebrate the EPA's Fix-A-Leak Week in March In our house, the quarterly water bill is one of our financial measuring sticks. With...
Water Heater Science: Expansion Tanks
Every 6th grade science geek learns that upon freezing, water expands. But did you realize water also expands upon heating? It's a...
The Allied Team - Perfect for Grease Trap Cleaning
Cincinnati has an impressive reputation as home to world class restaurants. And all restaurants, from Four-Star to Gold Star, have one...
Time for a New Kitchen Faucet Amazonians?
Amazon.com has faucets on sale; don't delay! The plan this morning was to hammer out a blog on how to fix a leaky kitchen faucet (mine)....
Our Greater Cincinnati Water Works (and "works" well!)
We've been closely following the developing story on the Flint, MI water crisis. After reading the in-depth news reports, we are thankful...
Basement water backups?
Installing a backwater valve may be the answer to your troubled waters. Recently, we came home to a major problem in our basement shower...
Do I Need A Water Softener In Cincinnati?
We recently heard a local radio station running an ad for water softeners in the Greater Cincinnati Area. Having long been under the...
Today's Toilet Choices: Making Thomas Crapper Proud
Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) , the London plumber frequently credited with inventing the flush toilet*, knew a good thing when he saw it....
Hot Water Heaters, Drinking Water & Power Outages
It’s not if, it’s when. Be prepared. For some reason, power outages in our urban Cincinnati neighborhood are common. Seemingly, our...
Tank vs. Tankless Water Heaters
Changing an American paradigm is tough. We've all experienced (and likely adopted) "disruptive innovations" -- inventions that create a...
Freeze Alert? Frost-Free Faucets are the Business!
Frost-free makes winterizing exterior plumbing a snap. I realized last week, while scraping frost off the car windshield, that we had...
NOFRO - Just Say No to Frozen Pipes!
Planning now can save $$$ this winter. In winter, things freeze. We protect our cars against fuel line freeze-up, we protect ourselves...
Hot Water Heater Safety Tips
We've written many DIY blogs, but the recent water heater explosion in Boston (see reference on our Facebook page) gave us pause....
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