Hard Water In Las Vegas
Las Vegas Valley water is classed very hard. The Las Vegas Valley Water District reports it at 291 parts per million, or 17 grains per gallon.
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Plumbing Guides For Las Vegas Homeowners
Plain explanations of the plumbing problems Las Vegas homes actually have, written so you can work out what you are dealing with before anyone quotes you for it.
Do I Need A Water Softener?
A water softener is worth it in Las Vegas if your complaint is scale: crust on fixtures, spotted glassware, soap that will not lather and water heaters losing capacity. It is not the answer to a taste complaint, a pressure complaint or a health concern, and it only works if it is maintained..
Do I Need A Water Softener? guide
No Hot Water
No hot water usually means one component failed rather than the whole heater. On an electric unit the most common cause is a tripped high limit reset or a failed element.
No Hot Water guide
Signs Of A Slab Leak
A slab leak is a leak in a supply line running beneath a concrete floor. The signs are a warm patch on the floor, the sound of running water with everything closed, a water bill that rose without explanation, and a meter that keeps turning when nothing is on.
Signs Of A Slab Leak guide
Plumbing Emergency Steps
In a plumbing emergency the first five minutes belong to you. Close the main water shutoff, cut power to the area if water is near an outlet, switch a gas water heater to pilot or an electric one off at the breaker if the tank is the source, then open a low fixture to drain the lines.
Plumbing Emergency Steps guide
Why Drains Keep Clogging
A drain that blocks again within weeks was cleared, not fixed. Cabling bores a hole through a blockage and leaves the cause on the pipe wall, so the line closes up again.
Why Drains Keep Clogging guideA note on what is here
Diagnosis, Not Repair Instructions
These guides help you work out what is wrong and what it usually means. They deliberately stop short of talking you through work on gas, on a pressurised line, or inside an appliance, because the consequences of getting that wrong land on you rather than on us.
Where there is something safe and genuinely useful you can do yourself, such as closing a shutoff valve, pressing a reset button or reading a water meter, you will find it spelled out.
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Plumbing is quicker to diagnose out loud than in a form. Tell us what is happening and you will get a straight answer on what it usually means and what it costs to find out.
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- What failed, or what you can see
- Anything you have already shut off
- Whether the water is clean or waste
- How many fixtures are affected
- The age of the house, if you know it
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