Reliance Plumbing Sewer & Drainage, Inc. Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Des Plaines’

Do Tankless Water Heaters Need Maintenance?

Monday, March 24th, 2025
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Tankless water heaters are an excellent choice for homeowners looking for energy efficiency and endless hot water on demand. However, like any other home appliance, they require regular upkeep to function at their best. If you’re wondering whether tankless water heater maintenance is necessary, the answer is a resounding yes.

For homeowners looking for tankless water heater maintenance in Des Plaines, IL, professional service is crucial to ensuring the longevity and efficiency of their unit. Neglecting maintenance can lead to reduced performance, higher energy bills, and even costly repairs or replacements.

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The High-Tech Tools of Today’s Plumbers

Monday, March 10th, 2025
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Once upon a time, plumbing involved making a lot of guesses. Where could that leak be coming from? Is something wrong with an underground pipe? Are the interiors of these pipes in good enough condition, or not? As you can imagine, this made for a very challenging job that included a lot of trial and error… and those errors might involve things like unnecessarily tearing out a wall or floor!

Today, we have a much easier time pinpointing plumbing problems and addressing them with precision, avoiding wasted time and collateral damage. How has plumbing changed in recent years? Modern plumbers have some amazing, high-tech tools. Check this out!

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Avoid Cold Showers with Water Heater Maintenance!

Monday, November 4th, 2024
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As chilly weather approaches, you’re going to want to be ready for it. Your furnace or boiler needs a tune-up. That box of coats, hats, and mittens needs to come out of storage. You certainly don’t want to freeze when winter catches you unprepared!

One thing that’s never any fun is a cold shower, and it’s even worse when it happens on an icy winter day. While you’re preparing for the season, think about your water heater, too. Water heater maintenance is a simple and cost-effective way to prevent all kinds of unpleasant problems. Here’s what you should know.

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Don’t Let Your Kids Cause These Plumbing Emergencies

Monday, August 12th, 2024
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Any kind of household emergency is best avoided whenever possible. Plumbing emergencies are high on the list of home problems you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy! But sometimes the person causing your plumbing emergency is not an enemy at all. Sometimes, it’s your own child. Make sure that doesn’t happen! We’ll help.

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Do Tankless Water Heaters Require Maintenance?

Monday, July 1st, 2024
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While any kind of water heater is ultimately doing the same job—heating up water—they don’t do it in exactly the same ways. This means the different systems might not have the same needs, right? Well, there are definitely some things that are not quite the same. But whether your water heater is a tank system or tankless, it still needs care. Here are the details about tankless water heater maintenance.

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Spring Cleaning? Make Plumbing Maintenance Part of It!

Monday, March 11th, 2024

As the days grow longer, it is time for homeowners to start thinking about spring cleaning. Sure, Spring cleaning will involve washing walls, ceilings, baseboards, and windows but it also is the perfect time to tackle various home maintenance tasks, and plumbing maintenance should definitely be on your list.

Here are a few things you can do to aid with plumbing maintenance in Des Plaines. By inspecting and maintaining your home plumbing, you can keep things running smoothly for longer.

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What’s the Point of a Sewage Pump? Do I Need One?

Monday, December 18th, 2023
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One part of your home that you don’t want to think much—and especially don’t want to be forced to think about—is its sewer line. Yes, that pipe that carries away all the waste from drains and toilets around the house and out to some mysterious central sewer system that you also don’t want to think about. 

Sometimes you will need to pay attention to your home’s sewer drainage, however, such as whether you need to have a sewage pump. Wait, what’s that? You’ve heard of a sewage pump, but you aren’t sure what it is? We’ll look into why some homes need sewage pumps and if your home is one of them.

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The Causes of Sewer Line Blockages

Monday, November 6th, 2023
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Having clogged and slow drains in your home is an annoyance. Sometimes you can clear out a clogged drain with a simple plunger or drain auger. With more serious stoppages you’ll need the help of professional plumbers. 

A clogged sewer line is a different matter. The sewer line transports all the wastewater from your home out to the municipal sewer system. If this underground pipe develops blockage, it will eventually cause all the drains and toilets in your home to back up and even spill sewage into your living space. Thankfully, professional plumbers like us can handle the sewer cleaning or sewer line repair in Des Plaines necessary to fix the problem. 

Below we’ll look at the most common causes of sewer line blockages. This will help you know what to look for as well as some ways to prevent problems.

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What Are the Best Ways to Prevent Drains Clogs From Starting?

Monday, January 16th, 2023
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We’ve written posts before about the best ways to unclog drains. This is one of the most common types of plumbing problems that affect homes, and people want quick solutions. 

But there’s an even better way to handle clogged drains in a home, and that’s to prevent them from starting in the first place! Prevention is the best tool of all when it comes to your plumbing.

There is no way that you can prevent all clogged drains. Some debris will manage to slip down the drains, and sometimes large objects may accidentally fall down into drain pipes (or intentionally, as is often the case with young children wondering what they can flush down a toilet). But, if you follow our tips below, you can significantly reduce the chance you’ll have to deal with an annoying clogged drain in Des Plaines, IL in the future.

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The Signs That You Need to Replace Your Toilet

Monday, October 24th, 2022

woman with plunger at her toilet, while on the phoneToilets are functional items, and the most attention people pay to them is to ensure they are clean. Homeowners rarely think about having to replace a toilet, because it’s easy to consider these large porcelain appliances secured to the bathroom floor as invincible. Except for a situation with catastrophic damage, why would a toilet need a replacement?

But toilets age just like any other appliance, and toilets work every day in a house. Wear and age will eventually make it necessary to replace any toilet—and sometimes it’s a good idea to replace one early because of the amount of water older models waste. 

How can you know it’s time to replace one of your toilet? We’ll look at several of the more prominent signs.

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