{"id":963,"date":"2016-06-27T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2016-06-24T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T00:42:46","slug":"leak-detection-will-help-you-conserve-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/leak-detection-will-help-you-conserve-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak Detection Will Help You Conserve Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not realize it, but your home could be wasting water this very minute. You look around your house and wonder exactly <em>where<\/em> this could be happening. None of the faucets are dripping, and you don\u2019t see water pooling anywhere. So where is this water waste happening?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It\u2019s in the pipes that are out of sight behind the walls and in the floors. Because of corrosion and aging, the plumbing in the average home loses around 15% of the water moving through it. That amount of water loss will add up quickly. A family of four could end up wasting around 1,700 gallons of water <em>a month<\/em> from these leaks, and that can mean a few hundred dollars extra a year on water expenses. Worse, it can also mean severe water damage.<\/p>\n<h3>Here\u2019s how to find out if you have leaks<\/h3>\n<p>Run this basic test to discover if there are hidden leaks in your home. Turn off all the water-using appliances in your home and make sure no taps are on. Wait for the water heat to finish refilling, as well as any ice-maker you might have. Go to your water meter and jot down a record of all the numbers there. Now leave the house for at least an hour (it&#8217;s advisable to check the meter before going to you job) and when you come back look over the meter numbers. Have they changed? Then you have water leaks.<\/p>\n<h3>Call plumbers for leak detection<\/h3>\n<p>If you do have leaks, the next step is simple: call professional plumbers. They will take care of leak detection, which uses special sound and scanning devices to pinpoint water loss. After this, they will repair the leaks, giving you a water-saving home without danger of water damage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Red Rock Mechanical LLC has provided <a href=\"\/plumbing\">quality plumbing service<\/a> to Burlington, VT and the Plattsburgh, NY area for more than 23 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not realize it, but your home could be wasting water this very minute. You look around your house and wonder exactly where this could be happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[128,91],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrockmechanical.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}