Frequently Asked Questions

1. a water heater should last 10 years
2.  a water heater should be drained out every six months or a year to make sure sediment does not build up in the tank to cause rusting on the bottom
3.  a water heater should stand in a pan that it protects the bottom of the tank from the cement this way the tank will last longer

Yes, we work on all types of one piece toilet made by Kohler. If you’re having a problem with them, please send us a picture and so that we can tell the model so that we have the right flopper and the ball cock to do repairs on it if you have any questions about that, you can call us at 561-968-0000

es, there’s a way to do it, but the idea is to have a professional plumber come by where he can spend his time in isolate where all the leases could be in the house could be a leaky toilet could be a broken pipe under the ground could be a irrigation line that’s running that you haven’t been able to turn off so it’s so if we can help you with that, you can call us at 5619680000 thank you

Yes , we can help you out. This is a simple question. Do you see any tracks around the house? It’s a joke tracks the track the toilet was running. Is there a tracks around the house? Typically if you have a problem with your toilet running all we have to do is probably change the flapper valve or the ball cock in the toilet. We’d be more than glad to help you out with that and thank you again for calling Hardenberg plumbing.

When there’s a high water bill or if you can hear where the water is leaking it’s a good idea that we can put a leak detection unit in there so we can pinpoint exactly where the leak is so we can either open the floor and go down and cut the pipe and put a coupling in there to stop the leaking under the floor or if the pipe is in bad condition and the house is older, we can actually run it overhead

Yes , if you’re feeling hotspots on the floor, it means that maybe your hot water line has got a leak underneath the floor and it needs to be located and it needs to be dug up repaired or run it overhead to reconnect and discontinue the pipe under the floor

There is various ways of doing it. You can actually find a digital thermometer with the laserbeam and put it on the floor and pinpoint exactly where the highest temperature in the floor is coming up or you can have a leak detection company go in and in here where the highest frequency is where you can pinpoint it on the floor.

Yes, epoxy spray that they jet the inside of the pipe out they cleaned it out and then after that, they spray in epoxy inside it hardens and that’s what they consider repairing the pipe 20 years warranty on it. There’s problems with the piping that can happen very costly and if you can’t use a regular snake machine on it because you could cause damage

Polybutylene pipe was started in early 1980s and it was discontinued in 1995 most a lot of the houses that were constructed during that period of time have polybutylene pipe. How do you know that you have it? It’s a gray pipe hot and cold water pipe is gray and it has brass or aluminum clamps to hold the pipe together. The problem is over the years the clamps have a tendency to break and the pipe actually splits the insurance companies. Do not like to have it inside of the house if they’re going to sell a policy to the house and they find out it’s in there they need to have it removed

With the drywall and the plumbing you’re looking at about $14,000

What we can do is come by your house and take a look and see what you wanna do to change your house around in your bathroom or your kitchen and we can give you some prices on fixtures and we can give you. We have a guy that does the tile work and all the extras of the things that need to do a good job so we can pretty much handle you all the way around and thank you again for asking us

Snaking is when you use cables and cutter heads or grease heads or retriever heads to clear a sewer line. This can remove roots and various other things depending on the application.

Hydro jetting is a process when you use high pressure water pressure that are used in various ways to clean the pipe walls for grease and also there’s heads like the warthog head that I’ll clean roots out by virtually cutting the roots off because of the high water pressure it’s not a good idea to run too high of water pressure in a Jetter inside of the house because it has a tendency to crack the pipe or damage the pipe Outside lines for sewer lines going out to the street. You can use one because if you have a problem it’s much easier to do the repair typically 3500 psi at 4 gallons. Admit it is a good type of Jetter line to go and clean Adaline inside of the house if it’s on the outside of the house 4000 psi for roots at eight or 9 gallons a minute is a good way to clean out roots

If the garbage disposal is not working, put your hand on the very bottom of the of the garbage disposal, there should be a red circuit breaker that you can push in and see if the garbage disposal start up if it doesn’t and you try to make many attempts, then probably you need to replace a garbage disposal

No, because if you go to the if you go to Home Depot and buy a key and turn it off and somebody sees you out there or your neighbors or whatever in the report you sometimes you can pay it like $300-$500 penalty depending on the county of the municipality