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65 articles from the Hayes Plumbing team on water quality for homes in Oshawa and Durham Region.

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65 articles in Water Quality

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3 Tips for Resolving Water Pressure Issues

Low water pressure can become a burden if you’re a homeowner with a busy lifestyle without the time to wait for a shower or sink to reach maximum flow. Low flow or low water pressure has numerous potential causes within the average family home but fortunately these problems can be mitigated through various maintenance techniques.

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What Is Reverse Osmosis And What Are Its Benefits?

With a renewed commitment to a healthy lifestyle taking place across Canada, many homeowners are now integrating home water purification systems that deliver clean drinking water to their family. With the marketplace for products such as water filtration solutions systems growing, many are now researching their systems options. In this blog, we’ll outline the reverse

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5 Signs Your Home Requires Water Conservation Systems

Millions of Canadians are now turning to high-efficiency technology to reduce their water consumption and save on their month-to-month bills. But many are still behind the times when it comes to water conservation. There is numerous water saving opportunities within the modern home. And within this blog, we’ll highlight 5 signs that your home requires

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Three Tips for Effective Water Filtration System Maintenance

water filtration systems systems are designed to help protect families against the potentially dangerous contaminants within their drinking water. While the leading brands in the country must abide by Canadian regulatory standards, and therefore offer highly effective equipment, this equipment can only retain peak performance with regular maintenance. With that in mind, this blog will

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What Is Reverse Osmosis And How Does it Work?

water filtration services may sound like a complicated time-warp adventure for water, but the concept is much simpler than the scientific label implies. Water seeks equilibrium with water. For example, if you take a container of extremely gunky water and cleaner water gets poured into the mix, all of the water will become somewhat gunky. If

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3 Ways To Reduce Exposure To Lead In Household Drinking Water

Long-standing research shows that direct exposure to lead can be harmful to human health. The negative effects of lead exposure are particularly dangerous for young children and pregnant women. Even low levels of lead within the home can harm a child’s intellectual development, size and behaviour. It’s therefore important to prevent all sources of potential

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What Is Filtration Of Water?

If you’re ever wondered about what a water water filtration services system can do for you, you’ve come to the right place. Without proper filtration, water can contain a fair amount of impurities, and may not even be safe enough to drink. Thankfully, there are plenty of water filtration plants that help to make the

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Should You Get A Water Filtration System?

Is your home equipped with a water filtration systems system? In this day and age, many people are beginning to hire plumbers to install water filtration systems. There are a wide range of benefits for those that decide to get a water filtration system installed in their home- after all, these systems help ensure that

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Water Filtration: How Often Should I Change My Filter?

When we install our professional-grade home water filtration systems we’re always asked the same, inevitable question—how often should I change my filter? We love this question. Why do we love it? Because people are pre-planning their water filtration needs—and we’re head over heels for clean water. It’s a geeky answer but it’s true. Another thing

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Problem Water? How to Diagnose Home Water Issues

Problem water is…well, a problem for millions of homes across the country at one point or another. Far too many of them however go untreated. Untreated water issues can make cleaning harder and hair greasier (as with hard water) and cause health issues due to the water quality. Stop the madness! Diagnosing home water issues

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5 Reasons you Should Use a Water Softener

A water softener is worth its weight in calcium…literally! The amount of calcium and magnesium that it takes out of your water will quickly outweigh the device itself…but the minerals and device are neither here nor there—the really important element of water softeners are…listed below. 5 Reasons you Should Use a Water Softener The reasons

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The 7 Major Benefits your Family can get from Water Softeners

Many homes in Durham region are still living with hard water. Most of these don’t know how easy and affordable a water softener is—or the benefits your family can get from water softeners. Soft water has a number of health, lifestyle and home benefits that can make your family’s quality of life better all around.

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Ensure Great Water Quality in your Home: Carbon Filtration, R.O and Softening Systems

Ensuring great water quality in your home has never been easier thanks to affordable, high-tech home-filtration technologies. Current technologies on the home roster currently include carbon filtration, reverse osmosis and water-softening systems. But soon there will probably be an app for that. As experienced home water experts in Oshawa, Bowmanville, Pickering and Ajax we are

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The ABC’s of reverse osmosis and water softeners from your local Oshawa plumber

Safe, clean drinking water is one of the priorities your Oshawa plumbing experts provide. Innovation has come a long way when it comes to purifying the water you and your family drink and reverse osmosis and water softeners are at the forefront of the things you need to know about. Hard Water The name says

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The importance of water filtration

When you’re looking at something like bathroom renovations and asking for advice and help from Oshawa plumbing professionals, these experts will be sure to mention the importance of the items you might otherwise overlook like water filtration. You’ll want any new bathroom renovations to be state-of-the art as well as attractive and water filtration improves

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Plumbing 101: How to maintain a problem free water system for your house

Whether you’ve just bought your first place or are living in your second or even third home, people want to know about their plumbing and how to maintain the system to prevent repairs where they can. Oshawa plumbing professionals can provide some great tips that will help you out. Being aware is one of the

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Precautions to take when replacing your electric hot water heater

So, you’ve been talking with a plumber in Oshawa and looking at bathroom renovations, you need to look at safety as a critical element. As important as safety is with work in the washroom, there’s an even bigger need to be careful when replacing a hot water heater so those new renovations work to their fullest. Here’s

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