Guides
The Valley year, plumbing by plumbing
A house here lives through monsoon, a summer that empties half the street, and water hard enough to be a maintenance schedule of its own. These 6 guides are what we would tell a neighbor to do, in the order we would do it.
- A monsoon season plumbing checklistWhat heavy rain, dust and power outages do to a Valley home's plumbing, and the short list worth working through before the storms arrive.
- Leaving the Valley for the summer: shutting a house downWhat to turn off and what to leave on when a house sits empty through a Phoenix summer, in the order that limits the damage if something goes wrong.
- Coming back: turning the water on safelyOpen the main slowly, fill the heater before you power it, and walk the house while it fills. The order that keeps a small mistake from becoming a flood.
- What 115 degrees does to a water heaterA hot garage, warm incoming water and pressure that has nowhere to go. Why summer is when heaters and relief valves show their age here.
- A hard water maintenance calendarWhat to check monthly, seasonally and yearly in a house running on hard water, and which jobs actually change how long things last.
- The first year checklist for a new buildWhat to find, check and set up in the first year of a new build, while everything is still accessible and still under warranty.
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The 36 shorter answers, sorted by what has gone wrong, are on the questions page.
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