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September Plumbing Checklist
September Plumbing Checklist

Even though leaves are starting to fall, these warm temperatures have us feeling more summer vibes than autumn ones. However, as the month creeps on, it’s important to remember that cooler temperatures are inevitable (sorry!). Fall is the perfect time to ensure your home’s plumbing system is in tip top condition and prepared for the prairie winter. So, today, we want to offer some items to add to your checklist to help keep you ahead of the cold weather and save your hard-earned cash by avoiding potential issues. 

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogplumbing tips, fall, Fall Maintenance, saskatoon, plumbing
Cleaning Tips for a Fresh and Sparkling Bathroom
Cleaning Tips for a Fresh and Sparkling Bathroom

Your bathroom is a busy spot in your home! From showers to brushing your teeth and washing your face, it’s the room we use most often to keep ourselves fresh and clean. Therefore, it’s important to ensure your bathroom stays the same. Today, let’s chat about some daily and weekly cleaning tips to help ensure your bathroom stays sparkling from top to bottom.

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Tips & TricksEditor of Action Plumbing Blogcleaning, Bathroom, plumbing, home
Tips to Resolve a Smelly Shower Drain
Tips to Resolve a Smelly Shower Drain

Nothing puts a damper on your shower than an unpleasant odour seeping up from your drain. Your shower works hard to keep you clean, so it’s important to ensure you take care of it as well! A smelly shower drain may be caused by a buildup of hair, soap scum, bacteria, or possibly other issues. Today, let’s chat about some practical tips to help eliminate odours and when it’s time to call a professional. 

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogshower, plumbing
Summer Plumbing Tips
Summer Plumbing Tips

With summer in full swing, you're probably focused on enjoying the season rather than thinking about your plumbing. However, over these next months, it plays an essential role in your home. So, today, we’ve rounded up some helpful ways to beat the heat, conserve water, and save some of your cold hard cash this summer

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogsummer, plumbing
Furnace Tips for Extreme Cold
Furnace Tips for Extreme Cold

After enjoying an extended period of above-normal temperatures, the polar vortex finally made its presence felt last week, marking the arrival of winter in full force. In these extreme cold conditions, while hibernating until spring might seem appealing, it's not realistic. What you can manage effectively, however, is ensuring that your furnace operates efficiently to keep your home warm.

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogcold, plumbing, furnace
Your Plumbing Tool Kit
Your Plumbing Tool Kit

Plumbing is complicated, and not everyone should or can do it. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t simple tasks and straightforward solutions to basic plumbing that you can’t tackle on your own. For these jobs, we want to help you put together a plumbing tool kit that will help you keep everything running smoothly, and ensure you know where your important tools are! We’ll start out simple and work our way up to more advanced tools.  

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogplumbing, tool kit, tools
How to Use a Plumbing Snake 
How to Use a Plumbing Snake 

Last week, we talked about the proper way to use a plunger (as well as the right type for the drain you are hoping to clear). Unfortunately, there are times when a clog is too stubborn for a plunger, yet you are too stubborn to call a plumber (just kidding – we love it when you are empowered to do your own minor plumbing!) In these cases – in that space between plunger and plumber – a great tool is a plumbing snake.  

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogplumbing, plumbing snake
Five Signs it’s Time to Call a Plumber 
Five Signs it’s Time to Call a Plumber 

There are few things we take more for granted than good plumbing. That is, until we have a plumbing issue. As long as everything is running smoothly, plumbing is a wonderful thing to enjoy and ignore. But at some point in our lives, most of us will need to call a plumber. Beyond the obvious plumbing emergencies (if your pipes burst, you’ll probably be on the phone pretty quickly), or installation of a new appliance, here are five signs that you might need to call a plumber. 

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogplumbing, plumber
There’s an Emergency – Do you Know Where Your Valves Are? 
There’s an Emergency – Do you Know Where Your Valves Are? 

Emergencies happen, they aren’t usually very predictable (or always preventable). All you can do is be prepared. One way you can be prepared is to know how to locate your shut-off valves. Because the last thing you want to be doing if you’ve sprung a serious leak is to be frantically reading this blog and searching for your shut off valves.

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogplumbing, valves, saskatoon
Four Reasons Why Your House Needs Humidification 
Four Reasons Why Your House Needs Humidification 

You live in the prairies, and it is very much winter, which means that the air is already dry and cold. When you turn on your furnace to heat the air, that heat removes even more of the moisture from the air, making an already dry situation worse. Adding a humidification system to your house offers so many benefits – some of them may even surprise you.

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plumbingEditor of Action Plumbing Blogwinter, plumbing, saskatoon humidifier installation