Plumbing Practices Can Be Environmentally Friendly
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American homes consume about 100 gallons of water a day -that's almost 70% more than homes of other industrialized countries. Residential water use makes up 47 percent of the water supplied by U.S. water utilities. We can each become more environmentally friendly, and our plumbing systems are a good place to start. There are lots of ways you can save money and the environment if you just take the time, including some well-known and not-so-well-known ways.
Low-flow: Inexpensive and relatively simple to install, low-flow shower heads, faucet aerators, and toilets can reduce your home water consumption by as much as 50% (an average household can save about 7,800 gallons of water a year), making them the most effective home water conservation projects. But what you may not realize is that if you're cutting your water consumption, that reduces the amount of water that you need to heat -cutting your electricity or natural gas (whichever your hot water heater uses) bill up to 50%.
Graywater/greywater systems are a safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and then reuse it for non-drinking water purposes. One example would be using this recycled water to water your plants. Graywater systems also keep your soil well irrigated by diverting water to it instead of your local sewage system.
Leaking faucets aren't just annoying, they also cost you money. Fixing them keeps your money from going down the drain. On average, between twelve and thirteen gallons of households' water use is water wasted by faucet, toilet, and pipe leaks. One leaking faucet can waste over seventy gallons a day and a leaking toilet can waster more than one-hundred and ninety gallons each day. It's worth it to fix leaks yourself or calling a plumber to do it for you, you will save money in the long run.
A home water filtering system can purify enough water to fill more than three-thousand of the plastic water bottles thrown away every year, you can save a lot of money by not paying the mark-up on store bought water. By reducing the use of these disposable bottles, we also reduce our dependency on crude oil, whose by-product is used to create plastic water bottles. Every year, about seventeen million barrels of oil are used to supply Americans with all the plastic water bottles they use.
An alternative to wasting pipes and drywall is epoxy pipe lining -- CuraFlo's epoxy pipe lining system is an environmentally friendly alternative to repipe. It takes less time than pipe replacement and generally costs less. Pipes are cleaned out and epoxy lined through connections to your existing plumbing fixtures and valves, nearly or completely eliminating the need to cut open walls. And best of all, epoxy lining your pipes can prevent erosion and corrosion damage to your pipes that led to the need for repair or replacement in the first place.
CuraFlo's epoxy pipe lining is a "green", or environmentally friendly alternative to repipe. It involves less mess and takes less time than pipe replacement. More often than not epoxy lining is more cost-effective too. Your pipes are epoxy lined through connections to your existing plumbing fixtures and valves, nearly or completely eliminating the need to cut open walls. Your pipes are cleaned out and epoxy is blown through. Your existing pipes are restored to good as new condition with at least another 50 years of service life.
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About the Author
Brian LeMaire is President of CuraFlo and has been in the plumbing industry since 1981. He is a qualified Journeyman plumber throughout all of Canada as well as a State registered plumbing contractor in Ohio. Find out more about Leaky pipes at curaflo, or ask questions about leak repair at the Pipe Problems blog
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