http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au Your best Sydney plumber. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:00:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_174" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Hot Water Tank"][/caption] The cold months are upon us, this means old model storage hot water tanks will start to burst as we experience large temperature changes. The last week of June saw morning temperatures in Sydney as low as 4 degrees, no surprise our phone has ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/uncategorized/hot-water-season/ Dual Flush Toilets – Government Rebate Don’t just sit on it - Now is the time to upgrade with the NSW Government offering a $200 rebate on new dual flush toilets. The NSW Government is offering a $200 rebate on installations of new dual flush toilets that have a 4 star or ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/sydney-plumber/dual-flush-toilets-government-rebate-2010/ Why WELS? Choosing more efficient products helps Australia save water. By 2021 Australians could save more than $600 million through reduced water and energy bills by simply choosing more efficient products. By 2021 it is estimated that using water efficient products will help to: reduce domestic water use by five per cent ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/home-plumbing/kitchen-plumbing/wels-rating/ Concealed cisterns are back in vogue. The Caroma Water Wafer seems to be the dominant model that is being installed. Now that these cisterns have been around for a while we are coming across them a lot more for general maintenance. I won’t lie, these cisterns are real buggers to ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/home-plumbing/bathroom-plumbing/caroma-water-wafers-%e2%80%93-concealed-cisterns/ Seldom does a customer put thought into what hot water system suits their needs the best. The usual routine is their existing heater bursts and then they need a new one in a hurry and plump for replacing their heater with the same one. When asked what the best solution is ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/hot-water/the-hot-water-choice/ We are asked on a daily basis, what’s the best way to clear a drain? As far as we are concerned, it’s no contest. We use Water Jetters for 100% of our drain clearing. We have an old Electric Eel sitting in our shed covered in cobwebs, it cost us ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/blocked-drain/the-jetter-versus-the-eel/ OK, I have your attention. No, there isn’t a rogue group walking the streets and washing bottoms without a permit. There is a large amount of imported products on the market designed to retro fit to an existing toilet and give you the ability to have the function of a ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/home-plumbing/toilet-plumbing/bidet-bidets-installation/ A Big Stink is Looming... It’s July 09 and we see a big problem slowly rolling towards us. In fact, this problem is rolling too slow and may stop along the way. No, we are not talking in code; we are worried about a basic issue of how many litres it ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/home-plumbing/toilet-plumbing/cisterns/ Tempering Valves Can Prevent a Burn Injury Tempered water is compulsory on all new residential developments in NSW. You cannot simply turn the heater down or you will breed Legionella. The tank must stay hot, but the water coming out must be tempered down. If your hot water  heater is being replaced ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/hot-water/tempering-valves/ Highlander Plumbing Sydney leads the field in sewer clearing, sewer pipe repair, sewer pipe cleaning, CCTV inspections and routine foaming to kill tree roots. There is a point when this isn't enough and the war has been lost. We never see this as a defeat; sometimes the time to renew the ... http://www.yoursydneyplumber.com.au/sewer-problems/sewer-renewals/