Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance: Plumbing

Name: Preventative Maintenance: Plumbing
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T17:38:51Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: For plumbing preventative maintenance, check for leaks under sinks, toilets, and patio doors. Flush water heaters yearly and inspect anode rods, replacing them as needed. Regularly test shutoff valves for proper function and corrosion. Consider installing water leak sensors in areas like bathrooms and laundry rooms to detect leaks early and prevent costly damage.

For plumbing preventative maintenance, check for leaks under sinks, toilets, and patio doors. Flush water heaters yearly and inspect anode rods, replacing them as needed. Regularly test shutoff valves for proper function and corrosion. Consider installing water leak sensors in areas like bathrooms and laundry rooms to detect leaks early and prevent costly damage.

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For your preventative maintenance on plumbing, you want to check for leaks under your kitchen, sinks under your bathroom, sinks around toilets. If you have back doors like a patio door, you want to visually inspect those just to make sure you don't have any water intrusion, water leaks, anything that looks like it could be discolored.

Check visibly for signs of a leak. You wanna flush your water heaters at least once a year. If you get down to it, anode rods can be inspected and replaced. It's a great way to save your water heater. So while you're flushing the water heater, take that anode rod out. Do a visual inspection. If it's missing.

If it's gone because the metals in the water have attacked it, replace it. Save your water heater. Because you know that's not gonna bust at a time that's convenient for you. It's gonna bust at 2:00 AM or it's gonna bust at 7:00 PM on a Friday when you are the one on call. You know how it works. So take the time now so that you don't have to take the time later.

Inspect and test shutoff valves. Regularly for corrosion and function. Nothing is worse than having a water leak and going to find the main shutoff and twist in it and it don't work, or it doesn't shut the water off or it breaks, had all of those things happen. So inspect it, get ahead of it. That way when something happens, you can turn the water off.

And there's water sensors now that you can install that can help in like bathrooms, laundry rooms where there's a lot of pressured water. So those are really good things to, to look into for that would help you identify water leaks. The water leak sensors are out there and they're really good. Check for leaks.

Flush your water heaters. Inspect your shutoff valves, and then if you need to look into some water sensors, some water leak sensors, that could help save you some time and money down the road.