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In the last blog post, I talked about a disturbing trend in the industry where homeowners are being lied to about how much tunneling is needed for a repair. This week I want to discuss a related and also concerning trend. As I mentioned before, many underslab plumbers in the area are one to two man […]

There’s a trend in the underslab plumbing and other related industries that I feel is necessary to address. The amount of excavation many plumbers are recommending. As I’ve mentioned before, there are unscrupulous business owners in this industry. Business owners who are more interested in filling their own pockets than serving their customers. And I feel it’s important to […]

“So how much is it?” Anyone selling or buying goods and services is inevitably confronted with this question: What’s the price? And it’s a reasonable question. You have to know how much something is in order to know if you can buy it. I get it. Everyone wants a good deal. We want to know we […]

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 […]