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Bring up Yelp in a room full of business owners and you get a lot of mixed reviews. It’s not that businesses don’t like reviews. We love reviews, in fact, both the good and the bad. From the bad, we can reach out to and build stronger relationships with unhappy customers by addressing their complaints. […]

With more and more plumbers relying on sewer cameras, we think it’s important everyone knows what a sewer camera can and can’t find. Check out the infographic below to find out why a sewer camera cannot be used to find leaks. And you’ll also learn the proper uses of a sewer camera. Read our blog […]

Recently two homeowners reached out to us for advice after reading our post Why Your Flooring Problem Might Not Be Plumbing Related. Both homeowners, one in Mesquite and the other in California, had problems with their hardwood floors buckling. And the homeowner in Mesquite also found black spots on a small area near a bathroom. In-House […]

Recently we performed a sewer leak isolation test at a home in Plano. With our test we found two leaks, both in a Jack and Jill bathroom near the front of the house. One leak was at the tub and the other at the toilet. We then gave the homeowner an estimate based on our results. About […]

We often get calls from homeowners asking for an estimate to repair issues found by another plumbing company. Sometimes the homeowner has a sewer camera video. And other times they have sewer leak test or leak isolation results from the other company. If the homeowner provides us with enough information when describing what the other company proposed—amount of tunneling, […]

Nobody wants to think about a sewer backup. It’s gross and messy and can potentially cause a lot of damage to your home and your health. If you have a simple clog, it’s easy to pull out the plunger or yank out that clump of hair from the tub drain. But when you find the […]

It should come as no surprise that we feel pretty passionate about water conservation here at In-House Plumbing. Of course, taking measures to save water saves you money by lowering your water bills. But when you also consider water is a finite resource—meaning we can run out of it—it only makes sense to conserve water […]

Sometimes a customer calls us because a flooring company told them they need an under slab sewer leak test. The flooring company saw or detected moisture before or after installing a hardwood floor. While all of the calls are triggered by different situations, all generally have one thing in common: they have nothing whatsoever to do with an […]

Water heating accounts for almost 20% of your home’s total energy costs. So when it’s time to replace a tank water heater, you might be considering converting to a tankless water heater. However, when we get calls from customers asking for a quote to convert to a tankless, we tell them that—as of 2017—we don’t install […]

If you’ve noticed higher than normal water bills or your water pressure is suddenly not what it use it be, you might have a fresh water leak. Your fresh water line runs on a pressurized system and is constantly pumping water from the city’s water lines—meaning there is always water running through your fresh water pipes. […]