Plumbing Blogging

Today's post is going to be a quick one. I just want to ask those folks who might come across this blog what they think of blogging about plumbing in general. I'm not sure whether anyone really cares to read a blog about plumbing so I don't want to waste a lot of my time if no one is ever going to subscribe to or read my blog. Let me know if you guys think that it is worth my time to keep on blogging. I'm pretty discouraged right now and I would really like some people to give me some encouragement and maybe share their own experience starting out as a blogger. You see this blogging stuff is all new to me and I am mainly trying to just share my knowledge with the rest of the world. I know no-one in my own house cares much about plumbing but I'm hoping that there are some folks out there that want to know what I can teach. Anyway let me know, I hope this won't be my last post but if no-one reads my blog then what's the point?

Small Bathtubs

Found a cool article on another plumbing site about small bath tubs. Check it out when you get a chance. For those of you who don't know, the standard bath tub is 5 feet long. If your bathroom is smaller than 5 feet in width, you are in trouble if you want a bathtub. So somewhere in human history someone came up with the idea of making bathtubs that were smaller than 5 feet so that people with smaller bathrooms could also enjoy a bath from time to time. When this happened, the small bathtub industry was born. Now there are all sorts of small bathtubs to choose from. There are things that are known as japanese soaking tubs, there are small corner bathtubs, there are clawfoot bathtubs, just to name a few. Yup creative people have come up with all sorts of solutions to this problem and now people all over the world are able to enjoy a nice warm bath, even if they don't own a larger bathroom. The article linked to above is a nice breakdown and contains lots of different information on these types of bathtubs. I would highly recommend you reading it especially if you have a small bathroom. If you are a plumber who also does remodeling you should definitely familiarize yourself with some of the potential options of things that you could sell to a client when they are looking to do a bathroom renovation. 

Toilets: An Introduction

Toilets are an integral part of every bathroom. Since the days of the out-house, toilets have become an indispensable part of human existence. Can you imagine sending your 2 year old who you are trying to potty-train out to the back to use an out-house? Probably not, but for thousands of years that is exactly what our ancestors had to do.  Thank goodness for advancements in technology. The toilet is a very simple device, it has a few major parts that make up the anatomy of a toilet. Toilets will be one topic that we discuss heavily in this blog so hold on to your hats(or should I say seats, pun intended). We will review every major toilet part and make sure that we cover these in great detail. For example, the flapper of a toilet is the part of the toilet that seals the water into the toilet tank, Without a properly functioning flapper you could quickly flood your bathroom as your toilet bowl would likely overflow pouring water all of your floor. Another key component is the float. This mechanism works to determine when water should flow into the toilet tank. If you float is defective your toilet could run constantly driving your water bill sky high. This is just an introduction but stay tuned as we  go into much more depth on toilets.