It’s the holiday season, which means lots of cooking, eating, and celebrating! But while you’re getting your Los Angeles home ready for entertaining, make sure you don’t risk a plumbing emergency by putting unauthorized materials down your kitchen sink.Read More…
Right now, Los Angeles is smack in the middle of its rainy season — which means more homeowners are going to start noticing extensive mold growth happening in their homes. Read More…
Since 1982, all of us here at The Twin Plumbers have always cared about our reputation, even before the Internet. Today we still hold a 98% customer retention rate. Before the Internet, it was all word of mouth – when something went wrong, customers would simply call in and request to speak to us.Read More…
It’s the holiday season, which means lots of cooking, eating, and celebrating! But while you’re getting your Los Angeles home ready for entertaining, make sure you don’t risk a plumbing emergency by putting unauthorized materials down your kitchen sink.Read More…
In our blog, we’ve spoken about the difference between drain snaking and hydrojetting on a number of occasions. Read More…
What is Sewer Camera Inspection? A sewer camera is essentially a waterproof video camera that is installed on the tip of a long cable and threaded through the access port of your drains. Read More…
This is a video we took a while back while performing a mold remediation service (as well as HEPA vac service) for this home in Los Angeles. We’re posting it because it’s mold season here in Los Angeles: conditions are perfect for mold and mildew to thrive around your windows and in other areas of […] The post Mold Growth and Mold Remediation in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Nothing is worse than getting home feeling excited to take a nice hot shower after a long day at work…only to find that the water pressure in your home’s plumbing is weak, and the shower-head basically just drips. On the other hand, it can also be frustrating to have a shower that blasts too hard […] The post How to Adjust My Los Angeles Home’s Water Pressure? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Do you have a member of your family who is having allergies all of the time? It could be a problem with your indoor air quality that is aggravating their symptoms! Homeowners in LA rely on temperature control all year round — but some people don’t realize that HVAC systems need to be maintained, especially in […] The post Air Duct Cleaning Mold Removal in Los Angeles, CA appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
You may remember from one of our blogs a week or so ago in which Twin Plumbing experts suggested several drain cleaning and maintenance tips for Los Angeles homeowners. One of those tips was to make sure that your home’s main drain has an operational back-flow valve in order to prevent drain disasters in the case of heavy rain […] The post What is a Back-Flow Valve, and Why Does My LA Home Need One?Read More…
No home disaster is quite as frustrating as a hot water heater leak. When the storage tank on your hot water heater springs even just a tiny leak, you’re liable to come downstairs to an indoor swimming pool! If your water heater breaks and doesn’t have an automatic shut-off valve, it will continue to take water […] The post When to get a Water Heater Expansion Tank appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
For today’s blog, we thought we’d give you a glimpse of the Twin Plumbers in action! We received a call the other day regarding a completely backed-up area drain on a Los Angeles residential property, and our experts promptly arrived at the scene. An area drain, also known as a “floor drain,” is a plumbing fixture […] The post Drain Clog Removal in Los Angeles | The Twin Plumbers Remove Tree Roots appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
For today’s blog, we thought we’d give you a glimpse of the Twin Plumbers in action! We received a call the other day regarding a completely backed-up area drain on a Los Angeles residential property, and our experts promptly arrived at the scene. An area drain, also known as a “floor drain,” is a plumbing fixture […] The post Drain Clog Removal in Los Angeles | The Twin Plumbers Remove Tree Roots appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
The post Sewer Odor in LA – Why Does My Bathroom Stink? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Here at the Twin Plumbers, the Los Angeles Home Experts, we wanted to share with you some steps you can take to locate the source of a leak coming from your shower or tub. This should give you some insight before you choose to hire a plumber, so you know what you’re paying for and […] The post How do I find a leak coming from my shower and tub? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
As you know, closets play an important role in a home & office, but it can also play an important role in mold growth if you are not aware of what you can do to prevent it. Things are stored in our closets for a very long time without a lot of movement, and most of all closets […] The post Closet Mold: Why Do I Have It? How Do I Get Rid of It? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
When you get a sewer camera inspection, your plumber will then give you all of the drain cleaning options you have for clog removal or sewer replacement. If you’ve got any of the following issues, you need those informed and accurate options: Bad Odors – Having a nasty sewer smell in your kitchen or bathroom could be a sign […] The post Drain Cleaning Solutions in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Sewer Camera Inspection in Studio City and Sherman Oaks The Twin Plumbers team wants to wish you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving this year! But when you have old plumbing in your home, staying safe during the holidays can be a bit trickier. Read More…
This is a question and a call we periodically get here at the Twin Plumbers. In fact, the video attached to our post today demonstrates what a banging, humming, rattling pipe sounds like when something within the plumbing system is malfunctioning. Here’s the video, and the story is below: We had an urgent call come […] The post Why Are My Water Pipes So Loud? Pipe Repair in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
The toilet seat in the photo is mostly a funny joke — but there’s some real truth there! You wouldn’t believe how many calls we get here at the Twin Plumbers that could have been avoided if homeowners knew what not to flush down their toilets. In fact, there are a number of simple habits that […] The post Drain Tips for Los Angeles Homeowners appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Here at the Twin Plumbers, we have the opportunity to speak with literally hundreds of trenchless liner companies Sometimes they teach us, sometimes we mentor them. Either way, trenchless is a fantastic and growing industry in the plumbing field, and there’s a lot to learn! Read More…
Does your home have old plumbing? If it does, it’s possible that you’re pipes are made with sub-par, outdated materials, or even that your drains are on the verge of collapsing. You’ve started to notice the signs of a leak in your home: Discolored spots on the walls Higher than usual water bills Lower than […] The post Leak Detection in Beverly Hills – Why to Use an Infrared Camera appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
We met somebody very special this week when we were out on the job, and we wanted to introduce you! Here’s The Story : Our customer Richard and his beautiful family purchased a home back in 2013 and hired us to perform a full drain inspection of the home before signing off and closing escrow .Read More…
So you’ve had a plumbing emergency: one of your pipes broke, started leaking, became disjointed, completely collapsed or just corroded past the point where it could be repaired. You need pipe replacement — repiping from the experts. Now, what does that mean?Read More…
Here at the Twin Plumbers, we believe our most valuable plumbing tool of all is our video camera. But it’s not just any video camera: it’s a state-of-the-art sewer drain diagnostic tool, and it represents some of the most advanced plumbing technology in the field. A sewer camera inspection is procedure wherein a plumber comes to your home and […] The post Sewer Camera Inspection in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
What does a water main replacement cost? Here at the twin plumbers we receive a variety of plumbing email inquires on a daily basis,everything from faucet repairs to sewers to what we received yesterday from a Lorin. We sure love to educate our customers and provide the most honest information there is in the plumbing […] The post How much to replace my water main from my meter to my house? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Don’t want your yard to look like the picture for this blog? Then you need to look into trenchless! When we first heard about trenchless sewer replacement in 1996, we knew we were going to be part of something great for our customers and a business that would take off the minute we were trained […] The post Trenchless Sewer Replacement Advantages in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
Need Toilet Repair? One of the worst plumbing disasters that a home can face is a gross, overflowing toilet. Sometimes you can fix the issue yourself, like Dave demonstrated here in this video: But sometimes, the problem is more severe. The toilet is spewing waste-water, and you can’t get it to stop! This is more […] The post Toilet Repair: Water Damage from Overflowing Toilet in Los Angeles appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
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You may have seen this video that we did on mold removal and thought, “Yeah, that’s great, but what’s the price tag?” We made this blog to answer exactly that question! This is the most frequent question we get here at the Twin Plumbers and our dry right restoration division in our Los Angeles and […] The post How Much Does It Cost for Mold Removal in Los Angeles? appeared first on Twin Home Experts.Read More…
