Tips To Help You Save Water
If you live in New Jersey and have city water and sewer bills to pay, you might be looking for ways to lower your monthly water bill. Wasting water is costly and also hazardous to the environment. At Water Management Inc, North Brunswick NJ, we have come up with a few plumbing tips to help you conserve water and ultimately save money on your city water and sewer bill. If you have well water or septic some still apply with the addition to increased electric bill and septic maintenance intervals.
Check Your Toilet
Toilets are often a hidden source of sneaky, silent leaks. Your toilet could be wasting 200 gallons of water daily. Other than the obvious listening for the filler kicking on and off too frequently during a day to maintain the tank level try the dye test. To check your toilet via the dye test , you can drop some dye, food coloring, or leak detector into the tank and wait for the telltale color to appear in the toilet bowl. You can have a new flapper and or fill valve installed to make sure that your toilet isn’t using unnecessary water.
Keep an Eye on Faucets
One of our most important plumbing tips is to watch for leaky faucets. You might not hear a constant drip and think that your faucets are fine. However, it can be important to regularly check the bases as well to make sure water is not seeping out. If you do catch a leak, be sure to call a licensed NJ plumber immediately to avoid wasting gallons of water. Even a small drip can lose up to 3,000 gallons of water in a year.
Change Your Showerhead
An old showerhead can produce an uncomfortable stream while wasting water. Some old showerheads even leak, directing water down the drain rather than over your head. Replacing your showerhead can preserve about seven gallons of water a minute. That’s 105 gallons for just one 15-minute shower, or more than 700 gallons a week!
Take Small Steps to Conserve Water
If you have already gone through these steps and still feel like you have an issue it could be something more severe. Some examples are,  a post meter, water service leak, or a leaking pipe hidden behind walls/under home that is not able to be seen from a quick visual inspection. Before tearing into areas that will need to be repaired like ceilings, walls and floors call Water Management Inc. Sometimes, it’s an underground issue and these plumbing issues can turn out to be costly over time. as cause other damage to home, property and cause health problems due to black mold for example.
