Skyline Plumbing & Septic

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We did not get mail Tuesday, Wed. or Thursday on Coppermine Road in Hiram. I wonder how many businesses were counting on checks coming in the mail to cover payroll for Friday?

Thanks for giving us a call to get your plumbing problems taken care of! We greatly appreciate your business. We are blessed to have some GREAT employees!

We are getting many calls where water pipes are frozen. Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done until they thaw out. Sometimes the pipes will be ok and sometimes they will burst. Here are some things you can do to help thaw out pipes. Open up all of your cabinet doors under your sinks and turn up your heat. If you have a crawl space, you can put some heaters under there to heat the area. Some of water piping around the water water heaters in garage areas are have frozen due to the garage being unheated space. You can also put heaters beside the water heater to help thaw them ou

Skyline Plumbing and Septic would like to Congratulate Glenn Womack for recently passing the Journeyman Plumbing Exam. Glenn has been employed with Skyline since 1998 and has been a licensed by the State of Ga in Septic Pumping and Field line Installation for many years. To become a licensed Journeyman plumber requires at least 3 years of plumbing experience as well as passing a rigorous plumbing exam. It is not very often that you find a person who is licensed in both the plumbing and septic fields.

often times the ground will settle over where the field lines were installed especially if the lines were deep. Just because they settle doesn't mean that there is a problem. You should get some fill dirt and fill in those areas to keep an excessive amount of water from seeping into the lines. You can call the Paulding County Environmental Health Department and they can fax or email you a platt of where your septic system is located if you want to make sure where your tank and lines are at.

There are a lot of folks that have been having that problem this year. We have been pumping septic tanks and replacing drain fields since 1998 and this is the busiest year that we have ever had. Sometimes pumping out the tank will give your lines a little bit of time to dry out and get you by for a while. If you are going to try to get by with it, make sure that there is no water that stands over the field lines when it rains and try to reduce your water consumption if possible. This will help give the lines some time to dry out. Doing this may get you by for a while. But we have had mul

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Skyline Plumbing and Septic, Inc based out of Hiram Georgia has been rated among the bests in the region and has received the 2013 Talk of the Town Customer Satisfaction Award. http://www.talkofthetownnews.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=89&year=2013&phone=7704432445

I have a building for rent at 380 Buchanan Hwy Dallas. Just off of Hwy 278. It is a 1200 square foot block building on a 1/4 acre lot.

You can always contact your local Environmental Health Department which usually has a drawing of where the system is. In Paulding County the number is 770-443-7877.

Explosion wasn't used in the example above as a bait word to scare the public; it was in fact used as a reasonable example of what will happen to a water heater if it's safety devices such as a T&P valve does not operate as designed when it should.

If you live in a home built before 1975 you probably have cast iron drain lines serving all your plumbing fixtures. Cast iron is very porous and grabs on to debris being washed down the drain a lot better than today's (PVC) Poly Vinyl Chloride which is not porous. In the next group of photo is cast iron that I cut out this week from a home that had drainage problems that would not permit drainage from the kitchen sinks and laundry room. A roto-rooter cuts through the build-up but is only a temporary fix. Best thing to do and what I recommend in all situations is get rid of the cast iron and yo

At that age it was probably a combination of things that went terribly wrong. The above picture of a T&P valve is a prime example of what probably failed and caused the explosion of the water heater. The T&P valve is spring loaded with a temperature sensing probe and it works in two ways. First way it works is the sensing probe will expand in length if the temperature of water inside the water heater get to be 210 degrees or more which presses against the spring which opens the valve allowing the extremely heated water to escape and be replaced with cold water that will cool the water

Sign up now for my plumbing classes at Marietta High School beginning on January 24th at 7PM - 9PM. Classes are Plumbing Repairs that cover faucets, toilets and water heaters. Class is 4 Thursday nights or if you like a class especially designed for women folk is Plumbing For Women 101 that covers faucets, toilets and disposals. That class is 2 Thursday nights 7-9PM. Sign up online at www.mariettacommunityschool.com. Class is taught by Lindsey Baine, Master Plumber and Lead Service Technician at Skyline Plumbing & Septic.

Now there's a new topic that you never really hear that much about but it happens just as much. Thanks for remaining other folks about that.

Thank you for being interested in reading it.

It's a possibility and I agree it's to funny.

Normally you can find it by locating where your house plumbing drain leaves the house through the crawl space or basement wall, then the tank will be outside about 10ft straight out from that location. If it isn't deep in the spring and summer it's possible to see an outline of it in the grass or at least can see the where the field lines run leading into it.

No it wasn't intended to reflect pun that's actually what you would call it and business as usual just means that you couldn't continue putting water down the drain like we all do everyday and not think about the consequences of what it is doing to the field lines if they are in a dilapidated state.

Ever had a toilet that you swore a ghost used it at night? Well it probably wasn't a ghost at all it was the flapper that was causing the toilet to come on and fill up for seemingly no reason at all. That's because the flapper probably has a deformed seal as the blue one does in this photo. The sealing edge should be nice and straight has the orange flapper in the photo. The deformed one got that way due to age and abuse and the wrinkled up edges allowed the water to seep from the tank into the bowl which when the water level in the tank got low enough caused the ballcock assembly to refill th

To an untrained eye these green grassy lines running in the back of a yard probably wouldn't catch your eye. You would probably just think it's just growing better there than anywhere else causing you more mowing work. But the reality is; it's the first sign of a failing septic drainage field system. Why? Because the direction and entire length of the drainage line is showing up by the water level being high enough to give the grass roots all the water they want making this section of the yard's grass more green than the surrounding area that is water starved. Next step in the process if your

I do recommend Dawn a lot to wash dishes with because it seems to cut the grease better than other liquids. I also use it on washing machine lines once I unstop them with a roto-rooter machine to help wash the grease and scum on down the line to the septic tank.