A Quick DIY Home Plumbing Inspection Checklist

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Before you continue to scroll down to read this blog post, one thing that should be made very clear is that you are strongly recommended to benefit from the use of an actual, professional Bundaberg plumber to examine your home’s plumbing once a year. A competent professional plumber will have the equipment and knowledge to discover issues that a non-plumber may possibly miss.

Nevertheless, that being said, you do not always require a competent professional plumber to identify typical plumbing issues. Additionally, completing your own plumbing examination once a month or season can assist you in spotting some significant issues early on so you could get them fixed quickly—reducing the amount of damage they can cause.

To guide you in inspecting your plumbing, the following is a short Do It Yourself home plumbing inspection checklist:

Things to Check Every Week:

  • House Faucets

Every type of faucet, spigot, showerhead, and another water-dispensing fitting must be inspected at least one time a week. Switch on the cold and hot water lines for every fixture and test for any stuttering, low water pressure level, unusual sounds, or stain.

Whilst evaluating the house faucets, all the bathtub and sink drains need to be examined for alerting signs such as a sluggish drain or bad odours. These may suggest a blockage developing within the drain pipe.

  • Check for odd noises

Just like a hollow hiss, this might identify a leaking toilet reservoir. To confirm if leakage is existing, you can try to flush the toilet, pull the tank lid, and include a few drops of food colouring as soon as the tank refills. Wait around for ten minutes. If food colouring is existing within the bowl, then you have a leakage.

Things to Check On a Seasonal or monthly Basis:

  • Exposed Pipes

Examine the exposed pipes in your dwelling and check for indications of damage or corrosion. Joint parts within the exposed pipe need to be tested for leakages or fragile seals. In case you have insulated your pipes, you should be certain the insulation is intact and dried out.

  • Emergency Shutoff Valves

It is crucial to understand where each one of the shutoff valves throughout the house is situated and to check them from time to time. Following engaging every valve, check the taps the serve and observe if those taps still distribute water. Next, test the shutoff valve in which the service line flowing from your water meter links with the home and do the test again at every faucet.

  • Water Meter

Speaking of water meters, although you have switched off all of the faucets in the home and engaged the primary shutoff valve, test to find out whether the meter is still moving or not. When the meter is heading out when the emergency shutoff is engaged, you might have a defective meter or a serious leakage. Given how modern the majority of the meters, the latter is more plausible.

  • Water Heater

Water heating units should be clear of other problems so you can examine them. You should not touch the water heater’s pipes or the heating component with no appropriate protection (eyewear, gloves, etc.). Visually examine the connections and pipes of the hot-water heater for indications of leakages or corrosion.

This very fundamental inspection checklist could help you in finding a lot of the most typical plumbing issues. For more comprehensive inspections of pipes that work below your yard or at the rear of your ceilings, walls, and floors, you will most likely need to employ a professional to carry out that inspection for you.

At Platinum Plumbing Bundaberg, we provide complete plumbing services including residential plumbing solutions to clients right across Bundaberg. Call us on 0431 710 745 for the best plumbing experience ever.