How Water Filtration Keeps You Healthy
Drinking filtered water can keep both your body and the environment healthy. By installing a water filtration system in your home, you can have affordable and unlimited access to pure, filtered water. This benefits both your health and your family’s health while allowing you to reduce your bottled water consumption. Benjamin ...
How Do Water Softeners Work?
Not all water is created equal. While water may seem to be just one consistency, it is actually considered hard or soft depending on its level of mineral content. Hard water can be damaging to pipes and drainage systems for a variety of reasons, which is why water filtration systems can ...
Understanding the Dangers of Gas Leaks
Sealed inside pipes and burning clean inside your home, natural gas is one of the safest energy sources available to you today. However, it can be deadly if a leak goes undetected. It’s important that you understand the dangers and warning signs of a gas leak so you can protect yourself ...
What’s That Terrible Smell?
Problems with the sewer line in your home will not disappear on their own. Whether you have a broken line or tree roots are invading the pipes, the problem will only grow worse. It may start as showers that drain slow or commodes that tend to back up, but at some ...
Why Trust a Professional for Drain Cleaning?
Reaching for a toilet plunger is a natural and practical reaction when a fixture, pipe, or drain becomes clogged in your home’s plumbing system. If the plunger doesn’t do the trick after a few tries, however, you may want to think twice about taking further action on your own. Unless performed ...
The Science of Tankless Water Heaters
How Does a Tankless Water Heater Work Tankless water heaters have become increasingly popular as a method of conserving resources. Ben Franklin Plumbing Bay Area can help you decide if this plumbing fixture will benefit your home and your wallet. Here is how a tankless water heater work: technology uses three ...
Update Your Shower for the Highest Level of Comfort
Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Bay Area offers a full line of services that can help Bay Area homeowners enjoy their homes even more. Each of our certified plumbers has been specially trained in multiple plumbing areas. Our bathroom professionals can work with you to update your tub or shower for a brand ...
Knowing the Signs of a Gas Leak Can Save Your Life
Natural gas is an efficient way to heat a home and operate household appliances such as clothes dryers, water heaters, ovens, ranges, and more. However, natural gas presents a serious health and safety hazard if a gas leak develops. Knowing the signs of leaking natural gas can save your life. Our ...
How Regular Maintenance Helps Your Plumbing Systems
It’s no secret that life is easier when your household plumbing works well. Throughout the day, whether it’s turning on the faucet to step into a hot shower or flipping a switch to run your garbage disposal after dinner, you need pipes that run freely and appliances that operate properly. Every ...
Is Your Home Protected with the Ben Franklin Maintenance Program?
As a homeowner in the Bay Area, you rely on your plumbing system to bring in fresh water for all of your drinking, cooking, cleaning, and hygiene needs; to carry away waste water; and to bring in natural gas for use in your major appliances. All of these plumbing needs require ...
