I don’t usually plug a manufacturer but I believe in this company’s product so much that I’m passing it on to you. The product I’m referring to is Bradford White water heaters. Certified Plumbing Company has been installing these water heaters for decades and, without a doubt, they lead the field in quality and reliability. Bradford White is U.S. made and is the only water heater manufactured here and it shows.

Bradford White have won awards for their water heaters and have been the #1 choice by J.D. Powers & Associates.

Check out the Bradford White product line online Bradford White Residential Hot Water Heater products

Have Certified Plumbing Company install a Bradford White water heater installed the next time you need one. You will be very pleased with its performance in your home.

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If you’re experiencing water heater problems call the Littleton plumbing repair experts who serve the Denver Metro area, Certified Plumbing Company at 303.795.7498.

Bradford White Defender Water Heater

The cold winter water in the Denver Metro area and water heaters can be a bad mixture at times. Generally you will find that if a water heater is going to leak through the tank or out the temperature and pressure relief valve, it will do it at night while you are sleeping.

As the water in the tank is being heated it is producing thermo expansion and increasing the pressure inside the tank. Mix this with the water pressure you are receiving from your water supplier and then add on having to heat the water from a colder degree temperature coming in.  You know this can become too much pressure for the water heater to handle. This built up pressure wants to come out somewhere and it will find the weakest point in the tank or come out the temperature and pressure relief valve.

Why does this happen at night more than during the day? Because during the day there is usually someone at home opening and closing the hot side to a faucet which will release the pressure build up in the water heater.

A water heater alarm is a good idea if your water heater is 10 – 12 years old. We will happily supply you with an alarm for a minimum cost. It’s also time to start thinking about the replacement of your water heater or at least start keeping a good eye on it.

If you’re experiencing water heater problems call the Littleton plumbing repair experts who serve the Denver Metro area, Certified Plumbing Company at 303.795.7498.

Snow falling, lights twinkling, waistlines expanding: the holiday season has arrived. And we at Certified Plumbing Company couldn’t be more excited. This time of year always puts us in an unusually good mood. Maybe it’s the eggnog. Or the presents. Or the music. Or the lights. Or maybe it’s the combination of all these things.

So instead of rambling on about frozen pipes, flooded basements, leaky faucets, malfunctioning garbage disposals, clogged toilets, water damage, or any other plumping-related party-poopers, we want to take this opportunity to slow down and remember what the holidays are all about: family. After all, Certified Plumbing Company has been family owned and operated for over 40 years. We know how important family is.

That’s why we want to extend our gratitude. Thank you for showing such kindness to our family and for allowing us the privilege of serving yours. We don’t know what we’d do without you! From our family to yours, have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy New Year. May the season of good tidings be upon you.

 Happy Holidays!

 A leaky faucet can drip 500 or more gallons of water a month – down the drain it goes. Please the wife, conserve water and fix the leaking faucet. After all, when the wife’s happy, we are all happy.

 If you have a leaking or dripping faucet call the Littleton Plumber who serves the Denver Metro area, Certified Plumbing Company at 303.795.7498.
 
This has been Potty Talk where next month we will tackle another problem common to the household.

 Happy Holidays from our family to yours        

                                Glenn and Fran Kenney

                                                              Email: certifiedplumb@msn.com

It’s winter, and it’s early, really early, like 5-am early—time to get ready for work. First stop: the kitchen. Gotta make that coffee. Gotta wake up. Caffeine to the rescue.

So you plod over to the kitchen sink to fill the coffee pot, one eye open, the other desperately trying to squeeze out a few more seconds of sleep. (Why must the morning be so difficult?) And that’s when you get your wake-up call: cold water—and I mean the icky kind, the kind that’s just been hanging around, stagnant and shiftless, like a bad roommate—drip-drip-dripping on your toes.

That’s right, your kitchen faucet is leaking.

Certified Plumbing Company gets a lot of calls about leaky kitchen faucets. Often these leaks come from the hoses of spray heads that aren’t sufficiently tightened. If you have a leaky kitchen faucet, then, try tightening the hose to the spray head. This may save you a service call.

If this doesn’t work, however, there might be a more significant problem. In this case you’ll want to call us, Certified Plumbing Company, the Littleton plumbing experts also serving the Denver metro area, 303-795-7498. We’re masters of kitchen faucet replacement and repair, and we’ll make sure your toes don’t suffer from drip-drip-dripping this winter.

Until next time…

 We know: it’s easy to forget this while you’re cutting, chopping, boiling, baking, basting, stirring—just cooking up a Thanksgiving snowstorm. You shove that food down your drain, and you let the garbage disposal do the work. But garbage disposals aren’t made for such heavy loads, and if you overwhelm them, they may end up clogging.

 This happens more than you think. Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. We get call after call, almost all of them about a clogged kitchen sink. “Help!” customers cry. “Our garbage disposal isn’t working! Thanksgiving is ruined!” (Okay, this might be an exaggeration, but you get the point.)

 Of course, we’re always happy to help. That’s why we’re here: we’re experts in garbage disposal repair and garbage disposal replacement. So if you ever need help unclogging your garbage disposal or finding the right garbage disposal for your needs, just give us a call, the expert Littleton plumbers, also serving the Denver metro area, Certified Plumbing Company, 303-795-7498.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Toilet Repair 101

Are you having toilet problems? There could be a number of things that are causing it to not function properly.

One of the worst things a homeowner can do to a toilet is to put harsh chemical cleaners inside the toilet tank such as a large chlorine tablet. Most of these products available have acetone in them and that corrodes and dissolves the rubber parts inside your toilet tank, causing the tank to leak water into the bowl.

Be sure to check the label before using strong cleaning agents on plumbing fixtures to avoid corrosion and  flushing toxins into your sewer line and and then into our water supply.

There are some green alternative toilet cleaning products available that are bio-degradable and have no phosphates. A quick internet search will find alternative homemade toilet cleaners with ingredients from your pantry.

 Click here for more toilet repair tips.   If you have a back up or your toilet needs a toilet repair such as a leak or not flushing properly, call the Littleton Plumbers who also services the Denver Metro area – Certified Plumbing Company, Inc.  303.795.7498.

The next commercial comes and the toilet is still filling up. Time to repair the toilet.

Get a watch with a seconds’ hand. Flush the toilet and time how long it takes for your tank to fill up. 30 to 60 seconds is standard; for a 1.6 gallon flush and 60 to 90 seconds on the old 3.5 gallon flush toilet. If it takes longer, your toilet isn’t working up to its capacity and you need a toilet repair done.

Call the Littleton Toilet Repair plumber at Certified Plumbing Company at 303.795.7498. You’ll be glad you did.

If you’re leaving town this winter, be sure to turn off your water. Yeah, yeah, we know what you’re thinking: “Nothing’s going to happen to me. I’m luckier than a leprechaun with a four-leaf clover in his pocket and horseshoe hanging from his nose.” Well, listen to this Certified Plumbing Company story, and see if it doesn’t change your mind.

A few years ago, a client of ours, Shirley, was taking off for the winter, fleeing the bitter Denver cold and heading straight for the beach. (Ah, the beach.) Thing is, though, she forgot to shut off her water.

In the spring, Shirley’s sister, Beth, who was checking up on the property regularly, called us, panic-stricken: her sister’s house, she told us, had flooded. So we went to check it out, and here’s what we found: the water in the pipes, which had frozen during the winter, had started to thaw. And while this normally wouldn’t be a big deal, there was a leak in one of Shirley’s pipes, and the water had found it.

 If only Shirley had called us in advance. We could have fixed her pipe, saved her thousands of dollars, and ensured that all those irreplaceable personal items were never lost. 

So before you leave town, give us a call at 303-795-7498. We’ll explain the proper steps for winterization and make sure your property stays in tip-top condition while you’re off having fun.

 Until next time,

The Littleton plumbing professionals, Certified Plumbing Company 303-795-7498

September and October are the two months of the year that all homeowners need to be on top of their game or it’s going to cost them some money down the road. In Colorado, you just never know what the weather will be this time of year.  

Be smart and disconnect those garden hoses today so you don’t have a burst pipe next spring.  Early season freezes will get you every time so be mindful of the weather forecasters.  Hose faucets are a common Denver Metro Plumbing problem.
 
The middle of October is a good time to be thinking about draining down that sprinkler system.  Make sure the shut off valve for the sprinkler system is shutting off completely.  Leave the drain open all winter. If water continues to drip out of the sprinkler drain. then the shut-off valve is not shutting off all the way and needs to be replaced.  Certified Plumbing Company can certainly take care of that for you. 

If you aren’t sure where the drain is, call Certified Plumbing Company at 303.795.7498 and we’ll see if we can figure it out over the phone.  If this shut-off can’t be located over the phone, we’ll be more than happy to assist you by coming to your home.
 
Though we don’t blow out sprinkler systems we do drain them down if you have a system 10 years or newer that doesn’t require a compressor to blow it out.
 
Eliminate the fuss and muss today by properly winterizing your hose faucets, vacuum breaker, shut offs and sprinkler systems.

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We also do total winterizations for unoccupied properties in the Denver Metro area.  Call for a quote today at 303.795.7498.