Notes From Under the House.
Plumbing guides, cost breakdowns, and Gulf Coast field notes for Baldwin County homeowners — what actually fails on a slab, on a grinder pump, and on a coast that freezes just often enough to catch everyone out. Written by the Streamlined Plumbing crew. Master Plumber MP-4462.
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The Repipe Decision, in Five Questions You Can Answer Before Anyone Comes Out
Most repipe advice online is written by people selling repipes. Five questions decide it honestly — material, failure count, failure type, access route and your horizon in the house — and four of them you can answer yourself.
How a Slab Leak Is Actually Located — and Why We Open the Concrete
Locating a slab leak narrows it to a small area, not to a point. Here is the real sequence — confirm, isolate, listen, mark, open — and the honest limit of what any locating tool can tell you before the concrete comes out.
Hydro Jetting vs Snaking: Two Different Tools, and the Baldwin County Line Between Them
A cable bores a passage through an obstruction. A jetter scours the whole inside diameter. Those solve different problems, and picking the wrong one is why the same drain keeps backing up — especially in coastal rental stock.
Polybutylene Pipe in Baldwin County: How to Identify It, and What It Does to Your Insurance
Gray plastic supply pipe, stamped PB2110, installed roughly 1978–1995. How to find it in a Baldwin County house, why the class-action money is long gone, and why Alabama's coastal insurance backstop does not cover this.
Cast Iron Drain Pipe in Older Baldwin County Houses: How It Fails, and in What Order
Cast iron drain pipe does not fail all at once. It scales, then graphitizes, then channels along the bottom, then perforates — and each stage looks like a different plumbing problem. What that sequence means in north Baldwin County housing stock.
Flushing a Water Heater in a Soft-Water County: What Actually Comes Out
The annual-flush advice online is written for hard-water states. Baldwin County's raw groundwater has a median hardness of 12 mg/L — so the real reason to flush here is different, and so is the way this job goes wrong.
How Long a Water Heater Lasts Here — and the Sacrificial Rod That Decides It
ENERGY STAR says start thinking about replacement past ten years. In a county whose raw groundwater has a median pH of 5.90, the anode rod matters more than the brand on the label.
Your House Has a Number Nobody Has Ever Measured: Static Water Pressure
Alabama's plumbing code caps a building at 80 psi static. A threaded gauge on a hose bib tells you in thirty seconds whether yours is legal — and Daphne alone sits on three different water systems.
The Two Toilet Parts You Can Replace Yourself — and What a Worn One Costs Here
A flapper and a fill valve are the only tank parts most homeowners should touch. On a water system registered to serve 1,800 people, or on your own well pump, a silent leak is not a rounding error.
How to Unclog a Toilet — and the One Question That Decides Whether You Should
The plunger most Baldwin County homes own is the wrong shape for a toilet. Here is the sequence that works, and the single check that tells you to stop plunging and pick up the phone.
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