2022

 At the end of 2021 some thoughts about plumbing. 

It is hard to come with plumbing news every day, week, month. Plumbing is not entertainment, not politics, not breaking news. It is something simple but very powerful. It is passion, it is day buy day life to keep the today’s standards of living high, it is day by day plumbers life, their families life.

Plumbing is as old as civilization, an old name which has to be treated with respect and decency.

Imagine a world without plumbing. You can because that is before civilization. Please remember and have a plumber for your house because is worth it.

BBP Plumbing Inc wishes you a Happy New Year!

Advertising

 Before the radio, tv, internet advertising how was?

I imagine the best advertising was the good product, the good service, the inspired ideas. Was so simple. 

You had a good product, a good price, I assume not to much wrap, you had a good advertising. Costs, zero. Only your mind.

You had a good service, your customer neighbor, the friends, the relatives, here you are, you had a good advertising. Was only your skills, your mind.

You had an idea, you took developed, you kept. You sold, here you go, you had a good advertising. Your mind.

Now days, the advertising is more and more fake. More irrelevant, irresponsible. 

Do we need advertising today taken from internet or we need ancient advertising? Honestly, we need both but I think we have to try to use the old advertising because is more efficient, exceed our expectations, less cost for us.

This is our point of view after years of advertising in news paper, radio, tv, and last over 10 years without advertising in media. Way better the last 10 years.

BBP Plumbing Inc.

First flushable toilet

 

Inventor of First Flushable Toilet: John Harington gifts the flush toilet to Queen Elizabeth 1

Poop Town

 Poop town. The world has a known sewer system way in the back of the history, about 5,000 years b.c. 

The World cannot be considered modern without a sewer system. Plumbing engineer's mind. So, our question is how to create a new city with buildings, streets, shops to be one of the most expensive in the world and not having developed a sewer system. More than that, the tallest building in the World, has no sewer system. Say what? With apartments, penthouses with millions to be paid to have it with no sewer system at the basement, underground. Oh my, my.

BBP Plumbing Inc

Lavatory sink

 If you didn't know how the fixtures in your bathroom, kitchen looks like and how they are connected with the plumbing we start to present them in few series for you. 

Today lavatory sink.

Plumbing facts

 Plumbing facts

1. More than 28 billion feet (about 5.3 million miles) of copper piping has been installed in buildings in the U.S. since 1963. To put it in perspective, imagine a single long copper tube going around the earth 200 times.
2. Set your hot water heater to no hotter than 125 degrees F. Why? Because it takes water at a temperature of 140 degrees F just seconds to burn your skin. Water at 160 degrees will scald you in just half a second.
3. A typical American home wastes more than 9,000 gallons of water running the faucet while waiting for the water to heat, which means that as much as 15 percent of your annual heating costs are wasted while you heat that extra 9,000 gallons.
4. Albert Einstein is reported to have said that if he had to do it all over again, he’d become a plumber. As a result of this remark, the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union in Washington, DC, made him an honorary member and a New York plumbers’ local gave him a set of gold-plated plumbers tools.

Drum-type drain cleaners vs. Sectional drain cleaning machines

 Drum-type drain cleaners vs. Sectional drain cleaning machines. What’s the difference?

  In the plumbing- sewer- cleaning business two types of machines are available – drum-type and sectional.  Each has advantages.

Drum-type machines have the advantage of being self-contained, fast, and easy to operate.  The entire length of cable is contained in one drum and can be transported in a single trip to the job site.  A variable speed automatic feed, feeding at a rate of up to 20 ft./min, makes it easier for the operator to get the cable to the clog quickly.  It also helps to retract the cable more easily.  A 100 ft. cable can weight 100 lbs. There are different companies which makes those machines. Recommended: Ridgid.

Sectional drain cleaners have the advantage of being lightweight.  The cables are carried separately from the machine as 5, 8, 10, or 15 ft. sections.  No need to carry the weight of 100 ft. of cable when the job only calls for 50 ft.  Once on the job, the cables are feed into the line one section at a time and coupled together as needed.  The open coil design of the sectional cable helps corkscrew the cable down the line, making it easier to clear longer runs.  And if a section is ever damaged, it can easily be uncoupled and replaced. The disadvantage of those is when you have to go inside the house you need a lot of drop clothes to protect the house floor. Recommended" Ridgid.