Everyone seems to have joined the green building/ecological movement. Many people want to update their existing homes to the green building methods used today.
Did you know you could update your plumbing to meet green building standards? It’s true and Ford’s Plumbing and Heating can help you do it.
You can update your pipes and fixtures to meet the new green standard. These updates do require an initial outlay, but they pay you back in their water savings, which saves you money on your water bill. Let’s look at how you can update your kitchen, bathroom, and outdoor faucets to use energy-efficient, money-saving devices.
All-Over Home Plumbing Updates
Your pipes provide an important starting place for green updates because you can not only fix leaks by replacing pipes, you can improve the overall health of people in your home or office building, plus save yourself money by improving the pipes in your home. Many older homes use lead pipes, but these cause many health issues, including brain damage. Replacing these pipes with cost-effective pipe materials like PVC and PEX improves your water use and health. You have other options for piping materials, but they cost more. Copper and stainless steel pipes can also replace lead pipes, but they cost much more than PVC or PEX.
Remember that the plumbing inside your home isn’t your only plumbing. You’ll also need to replace your sewer pipes to make your home as safe as possible. These pipes lead from your home to storm sewers where runoff water and refuse water drain away from your home. Many cities now conduct low-grade filtering and return it to residents for use as non-potable water, typically used to water lawns. If you don’t replace your outdoor lead pipes, you run the risk of sharing lead-contaminated water with the entire city.
Kitchen Plumbing Updates
You can also update the fixtures in our kitchen to improve water use. This doesn’t take a lot of pipework. You need to update your faucets and sinks. You could install low-flow faucets and touch-free faucets to improve and reduce water use. The choice of touch-free taps also improves health in the household or business since you avoid passing germs. The water only comes on when you place your hands under the spigot with a touchless system.
Bathroom Plumbing Updates
Have low-flow toilets installed in your bathroom as well as low-flow faucets and shower faucets installed? Using these updated fixtures reduces the amount of water used and when used. With a low-flow toilet, your toilet only uses the minimum amount of water needed to flush. Installing touch-free faucets reduces the amount of water used by people for hand washing. It also precludes your kids from forgetting to turn off the water and accidentally flooding the bathroom.
Outdoor Plumbing Updates
To save money, you can update your outside faucets. The spigots you use outdoors use one of the largest amounts of your monthly water since you use them to water your lawns. Installing a time-saving and water-saving automated sprinkler system can reduce the number of gallons of water you use to water your lawn while keeping the lawn healthy. As another option, you can upgrade your outdoor spigots using low-flow faucets.
Similarly, in your outdoor kitchen, update your faucets to those of the type in your kitchen. Using a low-flow faucet or touch-free faucet. This provides convenience while you grill, and you won’t over-use water. If you don’t already have an outdoor kitchen, now is the time to install one.
Contact Ford’s Plumbing and Heating to upgrade the plumbing at your home or office. Let us help you create a greener environment.
