It’s Saturday morning in sunny St. George, Utah and you wake to hear rushing water when you have no water features in your home and find water coming through your ceiling. It’s a sure way to ruin your weekend with a expensive call to an emergency plumber. Better yet as we experienced personally as we were going to bed one evening, only to step on our LVP and hear a loud squish of water whoosh out from under foot with the main having broken beneath our foundation and flooding our floors and into our drywall.
While large emergencies are most definitely causes that you shouldn’t be waffling around trying to pinch pennies with a dozen phone calls, there are many water and plumbing situations that can save you a significant amount of money by hiring a handyman.
There is preventive maintenance that can help you avoid that large emergency plumber bill; such as replacing your hot water heater or expansion tank before it’s over it’s life service date as this can lead to flooding. Hot water heater flushing and maintenance can save you from this even large expense sooner as well.
A more recent development that we have experienced first hand in our own home is the importance of replacing polybutylene lines in your home with pex or copper which led to the flooding beneath our foundation a subsequent repiping of the main line through our attic. While you should hire a plumber to run your lines, a handyman can help with fixtures, and patching the drywall that inevitably has to come out in a new line run.
Replacing shower, sink and tub faucets are easy ways to save money with a handyman instead of a plumbing company. In considering your go to, a full service company has a higher overhead cost of additional employees whereas a handyman doing simple fixture switches or helping with a hot water heater replacement can offer significant savings.