Nobody likes getting home after a long day at work to discover there’s no hot water. The prospect of a cold shower in winter is about as inviting as sticking your hand in a wood chipper so it makes sense to ensure that you will always have hot water on hand by using these easy-to-follow tips.

We’ve all been there. You push the button to flush your toilet and you watch the water rise… and rise… and rise some more. ‘Great!’ You think to yourself ‘toilets blocked’.

Your first instinct might be to keep furiously flushing the toilet to try and move the object that’s blocking your loo, but chances are you will just end up with water all over the floor and depending on what’s currently in that water… that’s never a good option. 

Blocked drains can be a real pain. They can range from anywhere to slightly annoying, like having to stand and wait for the water to drain from a sink when you pull the plug, through to downright damaging (if you’ve ever had a toilet backup and flow all over your house, you will know what we are talking about).

There are many different reasons drains get blocked and it can differ from suburb to suburb. Sometimes it’s trees and roots, other times its Lego or socks. You name it, we’ve

When you’re having a shower in the middle of winter and there’s suddenly a blast of frigid water that doesn’t stop, there’s usually a few things that go through people’s minds. The first thing most people do is let out a high pitched scream of icy confusion, and who can blame them?

The next item on the agenda is usually trying to figure out if someone’s flushed the toilet or running the hot water tap by listening intently, or yelling out ‘turn the tap off I’m in the shower!!!’ then

Having a dishwasher is an amazing modern convenience. Not only do many of the current range of water saving dishwashers use less water than washing by hand but they also help us save time, money and water. There are many different brands, types of powders and rinse aids to use in your dishwasher to slightly change the way they clean, but they all have one thing in common – if they’re not working properly, no matter how good or expensive a brand it is, a dishwasher that’s clogged or not

Hopefully you’re at home when it happens. Sometimes it’s a slow leak and you don’t hear it. Other times it’s a loud hissing sound and you really hear it. Burst pipes are never fun and there’s always a sense of urgency if you’re seeing water spraying out of a pipe, wall, vanity, etc or you’re seeing a quickly increasing pool of water where there shouldn't be one.

Brown tap water – if you’re used to seeing crystal clear water coming out of your taps and suddenly get a brown/yellow tainted water, it can be quite confusing and worrying. We get asked all the time “is brown tap water still safe for drinking?” and “what are the causes of brown water from the tap?”.

We’re going to run through all the different reasons you might be seeing brown water coming from your taps, what you can do about it and cover safety concerns about brown tap water.

When it comes to flushing items down the drain or toilet, many of us don’t give a second thought to where it goes. We understand there’s a series of interconnected pipes that leads to a treatment plant somewhere or other, but once you flush that toilet or wash stuff down the sink, many of us think that the things being washed away aren’t our problem anymore.

A simple thing like washing the car or spraying for bugs can have a flow on impact on our environment if harmful elements are

If you’ve been in the plumbing game long enough (like I have), you tend to come across the same sorts of questions again and again. Usually they’re to do with toilets and sinks, and sometimes blockages as well. Since we get asked them all the time, I thought it might be a good idea to put them together as a list and whack them up on the website.

So here’s our list of five most common plumbing problems and how to fix them.

Australia is one of the driest countries in the world – that’s a fact. In summer, when your thongs melt on the bitumen, you can get sunburnt just by thinking about going out in the sun and icecreams melt before you can finish them... it’s important to keep yourself hydrated.

Usable drinking water may not seem like something you have to worry about (heck you can go to pretty much any tap, anywhere in Australia and get water instantly) but if you’re like us and think global but act

If you’ve got a garbage disposal in your kitchen sink you know how much of a workhorse it is. Scraps of food, fruit, meat, veggies, etc get shoved into its swirling, tearing, cutting, gaping maw with reckless abandon without a thought about how to keep your garbage disposal spic and span for years of reliable use.

With a little knowhow about how to use your garbage disposal (sometimes called an Insinkerator) properly and some regular maintenance you can avoid costly repair jobs or

When storm season rolls around in Brisbane you can guarantee that roofing, gutters, plumbing, downpipes and drains get an absolute hammering. It’s important to ensure that your home doesn’t have any plumbing issues that could potentially lead to expensive and inconvenient damage to your property.

We have put together some tips for dealing with the hectic storm season we sometimes get in Brisbane.

We all know that checking and cleaning your gutters is an important part of a summer house cleaning routine, but let’s face it... it’s a dirty and sometimes dangerous job that many people put off.

We’ve all thought it at some time and it goes a little like this. “Geesh this is dirty… it’s going to be a pain to wash… I wonder if I could put it in the dishwasher?”

No doubt at some stage of living in a home you’ve come across a plumbing emergency. They can be as subtle as a damp patch in the ceiling that takes you a while to notice, or can be as scary as a gas leak or busted pipe meaning the potential for damage to your home is a very high possibility.

Most of us have experienced blocked drains from time to time. They can range from a blocked sink that’s had a little too much gunk or fat / oil shoved down the sinkhole, right through to a mess of roots in a major pipe that’s causing water to leak into your home, backyard or frontage.

Conducting a water audit on your home is a great way to make sure that you don’t have any hidden leaks or pipes that are letting water out without your knowledge. It’s also a great way to find out what taps, toilets or showers are using up more water than they should be.

If you’ve ever been on the wrong end of a dodgy tradesperson you know how frustrating it can be in lost time, money and sanity. We’ve all had those annoying windows of time where we’ve taken a morning or afternoon off and waited around for a plumber or tradie to turn up, only to have them call and tell you they can’t make it.

Sometimes when you call or meet with a plumber they can say things that might pass over your ears at first, but if you listen carefully and have a little background knowledge, this can go a long way in making sure you understand your plumber and what they’re really trying to say to you.

If you’re like most Australians, you’re usually pretty happy to get in and ‘give it a go’ and many Brisbane mums and dads can be found on the weekends tinkering and fixing small plumbing problems around their home.