Our Family Blog
As a family business, we’re dedicated to providing the Regina community with a trusted place where they can freely access useful tips, tricks, and DIY fixes. We regularly add new posts to our blog in an effort to be transparent and helpful to anyone needing advice on their plumbing and heating needs.
What Mark taught Family Plumbing
The key to success in the service industry is directly tied to how thorough you are. Find the problem and the appropriate solutions. One aspect of being thorough is ensuring
Renting vs Financing
It goes without saying that furnace and air conditioner breakdowns don’t wait until you’re ready for them. They always seem to happen at the most inopportune time. Now a person
This blog will teach you why you should replace your main water valve (if you haven’t already)
Temperature drops in Regina happen often and without warning. Waterlines exposed to these temps are easily susceptible to freezing and cracking. Consider yourself lucky if you have never experienced an
Discussing heat exchangers
What's the worst furnace breakdown you can have? What’s the one repair you don’t want to make? What’s the last thing you want us to tell you is wrong
Water heater pans and why homeowners don’t have them.
Give a water heater enough time and it will spring a leak. 9 times out of 10 the leak will be from the bottom of the tank. Hopefully it’s a
FamilyPlumbing X Santa’s Anonymous
Christmas season is in full swing. It’s an understatement to call this the busiest time of year. For Family Plumbing and Heating that statement rings true. We find ourselves either
Family Plumbing: A Jiu Jitsu Story
Last month Tyler and I competed in the Queen City Open, an annual Brazilian jiu jitsu tournament held in Regina every fall. Humble brag: both Tyler and I were able
Do you want to talk about furnace inspections?
When I go to the mechanic, sometimes they motion for me to come to take a look under my hood and describe how everything under there is doing. I nod
Bad luck and the litter box
As a homeowner it’s the little things you don’t know exist that can give you the biggest headaches. Sometimes these issues are seemingly invisible, but for techs they stand out
Started at the bottom now we’re here.
This time last year Tyler and I started Family Plumbing and Heating, one year later we’re on the beach sipping mixed drinks and lighting cigars with hundred dollars bills….Just kidding,
Summer BBQ!
Every once in a while, when the temperature outside is just right and somewhere out in space a couple of planets are lining up for the first time in a
4 important steps when installing air conditioners
So here we are. You’ve decided this year is the year you’re going to splurge and finally get out of the heat. You’re finally getting an air conditioner! Next, you
Whats the deal with R-22 and why you’re going to hate it.
Because it means you need a new air conditioner. Wait, let me rewind for a minute. I forgot that a good plumber seduces their client with technical know-it-all-ness before dropping
2019 Spring Home Show
And that’s a wrap on the 2019 Spring Home Show! It was quite the weekend and was incredibly fun. Tyler and I had been working hard the past months getting
2019….so far.
Tyler and I have started 2019 off the same way we left 2018; hitting up call after call and having a blast while we do it. January has included
