Knoxville Tennessee Backflow Prevention and Testing

Unclear About What Backflow Prevention Is All About?

(this should answer your questions)

The glass on the left came from a home with a faulty backflow system.

Normally, water flows from the city water supply system into your home. Backflow is the ‘backward flow’ of water from a source inside your home back in to your clean water pipes.

For example: Your laundry tub is slow to drain dirty water from the washer. Or, your dishwasher fails to pump all of the dishwater down the drain. If there is a sudden drop in water pressure, anywhere in your neighborhood, the clean water supply system in your home creates a vacuum and siphons that nasty water back in to your home.  

The worst part is if you don’t have a properly functioning backflow prevention system you may even be susceptible to siphoning your neighbor’s dirty water right to your kitchen tap! Plus, if water flowing backwards contains hazardous chemicals, toxins or bacteria, this can cause a very unhealthy and even dangerous situation.

The backflow prevention device creates a closed plumbing system, keeping the water you and your family use for cooking, bathing and drinking from becoming contaminated with bacteria, chemicals and harmful toxins.

You can depend on Pipe Wrench Plumbing, Heating & Cooling to be the area specialists in backflow prevention. Have your system tested to see if your clean water supply will stay that way! If there is a problem, our skilled plumbers can install a backflow prevention device in your home to assure that contaminated water stays out of your clean water system.

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