Certified Plummer
Water leaks happen all the time and in this day and age, water can be expensive. Thus, it is most important to take care of a home water leak as soon as it is discovered to avoid large municipal water bills.
If you have any experience in home inspections, property management, or plumbing, you may have heard a home owner or resident try to use the excuse that the discovered leak could not possibly be their fault as they had a Certified Plummer look at their pipes and tell them everything was okay.
The term Certified Plummer refers to a cousin, brother-in-law, neighbor, or other odd relation of the home owner who knows how to twist a pipe wrench. Certified plummers have no certification, it is just a buzzword used to stress that the home owner is totally not lying and has paid good money [ Citation Needed ] to have their pipes checked. Additionally, Certified plummers never find any leaks and will always side with the resident.
Being in the property management business, I get to hear about Certified Plummers all the time, and here are some of their stories...
Story One - The Radio
Monthly water reads were done on a property and a home was found to have used a significantly larger amount of water than usual. This resulted in a water bill that was over $400.00. The home owner was immediately contacted to alert them of the size of the bill and that the home may have a leak. They were also told to have their toilets and the pipes under the home visually inspected as that is the quickest and easiest way to spot a leak.
A few days later, the home owner contacted the office and told the office manager that no leaks were found and that it had to be the property management companies fault due to a broken water meter. What the home owner did not understand is the fact that if a water meter breaks, it never spins faster or adds more usage to the water bill. It will only stop completely.
Maintenance workers visually inspected both the house and the meter and discovered no evidence of a leak. However, the water usage indicator on the meter was moving and this meant that water was being lost within the house at some place. Usually, this means that the toilet is leaking.
"That can't be, both of those toilets are brand new!" said the resident.
At this point, maintenance found the sewage pipe from the house and noticed that water was flowing in it. It was removed from the sewage main and a good stream of clear water was flowing out of the house into the sewage system. The home owner was told to turn off the toilet in the front bathroom. This was done, but the water continued to stream out of the house. This narrowed the problem down to the back bathroom's toilet. Once that toilet was turned off, water flow from the house stopped.
The resident asked maintenance to inspect the toilet to see what the problem was. As soon as the bathroom was entered, the problem became very apparent: It was a top push button flushing toilet, and the child that lived in the home had a radio sitting on the flush button just enough to open the toilet's flapper, causing water to flow out of the house.
A radio, sitting innocently on the flush button of a toilet caused 400 dollars of water usage in one month.
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