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Common Problems with Your Water Heater Thermocouple
Every homeowner wants a fully functional hot water heater, providing them with consistent and reliable household comfort. Of course, it's equally important for the water heater to be safe, not placing the home at any risk of fire or flood. As such, today's water...
What are the Most Common Water Heater Problems?
Your water heater works hard behind the scenes, supplying you and your family members with comfortable baths and showers, warm water for scrubbing dishes, and more. Sooner or later, though, even the most reliable water heater appliances might start showing some signs...
Kitchen Sink Smells: How to Get Rid of Unwelcome Odors
Your kitchen should be a place that emanates pleasant aromas and appealing smells. Your family members, along with guests to your home, should associate that room with the smell of garlic cooking in a pan, fresh-baked bread, or of the savory whiff of grilled meat. But...
Water Heater Repair Cost Guide: Don’t Pay Too Much! (2023)
How much will the water heater repair cost? [2023 Update]: 95% of the time, the main reason people call about a water heater problem is leakage, which is not repairable and we must replace it. The typical range for water heater replacement is between $1300 to $5500,...
Tankless Water Heater Installation Cost (2023)
[2023 Update] The typical range for tankless heater installation is between $4,500 and $6,500, averaging out to around $5,500 (including the water heater, warranty and tune ups). The tankless heater installation without the unit can cost between $1800 and $3500,...
What’s the Typical Water Softener Installation Cost? (2023)
How Much Will The Water Softener Installation Cost? [2023 Update] The average cost of Indianapolis water softener installation is about $1250 to $1899 for standard model water softeners and homes that are already plumbed. Many homes are not "pre-plumbed" so there may...
What is the Average Drain Cleaning Cost? (2023)
[2023 Update] Drain cleaning cost starts at $300 and hydro jetting around $700. *Prices vary based on the complexity of the circumstances. When a drain becomes clogged and unable to properly function, it has an immediate impact on your entire household plumbing...
What is the Average Hydro Jetting Cost? (2023)
[Update 2023]: When homeowners need a solution for significant clogs, including whole-house clogs, the best bet is often to hire a hydro jetting service. The cost for hydro jetting varies depending on the scope and severity of the clog, with the typical price usually...
How Long Does it Take to Snake a Drain?
The best case scenario? For an easy clog, your plumber may get the job done in mere minutes. For a more stubborn or deep-seated clog, the process may take multiple hours. If you're dealing with a stubborn household clog, it may be time for you to enlist a professional...
How Long Does Hydro Jetting Last?
How long does hydro jetting last? While the longevity of hydro jetting results can vary from one household or business to the next, most homeowners are encouraged to have hydro jetting done on roughly an annual basis. The results from a single hydro jetting service...
Your Complete Guide to Hydro Jetting
Every homeowner knows what it's like to deal with slow drains, whether in the kitchen sink, the shower, or elsewhere. There's much you can do to unclog a drain on a DIY basis, such as using a plunger or a plumbing snake. Some homeowners may even turn to chemical drain...
How Long Does it Take to Replace a Sewer Line?
How Long Does it Take to Replace a Line? The amount of time it takes to replace a line to the city sewer depends on a number of factors, including the type of repair that's performed. For a trenchless sewer line repair method, the work can often be completed in as...
What’s the Best Water Softener for Your Home?
Across the Indianapolis area, many homeowners deal with hard water. What this means is that the water supplied to their home is fairly dense with mineral content, including calcium and magnesium. There are a number of consequences to hard water, including potential...
How Long Does it Take to Install a Water Heater?
If you've experienced issues with your hot water heater, you likely want to have the problem resolved as expediently as possible. Depending on the age of the water heater, the best way to ensure consistent hot water may be to simply have a new hot water heater...
How Often to Add Salt to Your Water Softener
water softener salt In order for your water softener to work properly, it's important that you attend to some basic maintenance steps. Most notably, it's important to keep your brine tank filled to the proper salt level. As such, homeowners often wonder: Exactly how...
What is the Best Water Softener Salt?
Our Advice: Choose Water Softener Pellets At Carter's My Plumber, we highly recommend choosing salt pellets. What happens when you use salt crystals is a "salt bridge" can form. A salt bridge is a hard crust that develops over the water in the brine tank, making it...
How Long Do Water Softeners Last?
What's the Life Expectancy of My Water Softener? With the right level of maintenance, water softeners can often last as long as 20 years. But there are a lot of variables to consider. The first thing homeowners should know is that the older a water softener is, the...
CARTER CARES- FREE HOT WATER HEATER!
At Carter’s we have started a new program to help others in need, called CARTER CARES! Our vision for the company is to be Indy’s fastest hot water provider with the bold guarantee of “Hot Water Today or It’s You We Pay!” With this vision in mind, we want to ensure...
Bathroom Sink Smells: How to Get Rid of Unpleasant Odors
Most homeowners try pretty hard to keep revolting odors out of their bathroom. They clean their toilet regularly. They empty the wastebasket. They keep the bathroom stocked with potpourri or deodorizing spray. But what if those efforts aren't enough to keep your...
Carter Care’s installs New Water Heater for Single Mom
At Carter’s My Plumber, we understand 2020 has been tough year for many people in our community. This pandemic has created so many tough challenges. Whether it be your finances, job status, health, childcare, or overall livelihood we all have been or know a loved one...
Best Plumbers in Indianapolis: Top 10 Picks for Local Homeowners
Whether you're looking to have a new toilet installed, a water heater repaired, or your sewer line cleaned out, finding a reputable plumbing company is essential. Indianapolis homeowners have more than their fair share of options. In fact, there are a number of local...
Should You Tip a Plumber? General Tipping Guidelines and Etiquette for Plumbers
Are You Supposed to Tip Plumbers? Is tipping a plumber & other tradesmen expected? I mean you tip the local, part-time, teenage pizza delivery guy. Why not the more experienced men & women in the trades? It depends on a couple of factors. But, usually it is...
How Long Does it Take a Water Heater to Heat Water?
Your water heater is one of those home appliances that's easy to take for granted. You depend on it to give you comfortable showers, and to ensure you have enough warm water on hand to wash your dishes. And so long as your water heater is working as intended, you...
What To Do When Your Water Heater is Leaking
Water Heater Repair Most of us go from day to day without thinking too much about our hot water heater... that is, until the unit breaks down in some way. There are a number of ways in which a hot water heater might malfunction, but the most immediately obvious is...
Common Plumbing Myths Debunked
As a homeowner, you've probably learned some basic home maintenance abilities. But even if you consider yourself to be pretty handy, sooner or later you'll run into a project that throws you for a loop. And when that happens, you'll likely head to Google or YouTube...
Water Heater Recycling: How to Dispose of Your Old Unit in Indianapolis
Water Heater When you purchase a new water heater, you're probably not thinking too much about what you'll do with the old one. And yet, that's an issue that must be addressed. All of a sudden, you have two water heaters in your home, one that works and one that...
What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Tankless Water Heater?
Is your water heater on its last legs? If your unit has been in place for more than 12-15 years, you may be almost ready for a new one. And as you think about getting a new water heater, there are a few basic decisions you'll need to make. One of the most fundamental...
Do You Call a Plumber to Fix a Hot Water Heater?
PlumberMale Worker With Clipboard Adjusting Temperature Of Water Heater The best way to get the needed repair work done Most days, you probably don't think too much about your water heater. So long as it's doing what it was made to do, there's no reason for it to be...
Our Gratitude to Plumbers during COVID-19
Our Gratitude to Plumbers and other essential tradespeople during COVID- 19 We at Carters My Plumber, want to show gratitude to our plumbers and the other tradespeople who have been deemed essential during this time of crisis. We see firsthand just how essential the...
How to Fix a Leaky Garbage Disposal
Garbage disposal leaking? Let's fix it! Although leaking garbage disposals are not typically detected until a puddle is forming under your sink, there are a number of solutions to address the issue before it becomes a larger problem. The first and most important step...