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Small leaks can cause BIG water bills. Check for leaks first by turning off water being used inside the home and locating your water meter. Second, look at the red triangle (flow meter) inside the meter box to see if it’s moving. If the flow meter is moving, you have a leak. Third, fix the leak ASAP. Check out our drip calculator to see how much water is wasted. |
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Inside the Home |
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The Disposal Suddenly Stops: |
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1. Check the plug under the sink to see if it's still plugged in. |
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2. If it is plugged in but makes no humming noise, try plugging a lamp (or other appliance) into that socket to make sure the problem is not with the socket itself. |
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3. Hit the reset button located on the body of the unit. |
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4. Use the wrench supplied by the garbage disposal to unjam. |
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Diswasher / washing machine still has water in the tub at the end of the cycle: |
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You will need to call an appliance repair person, not a plumber. 99% of the time the pump has gone out on the appliance itself. we recommend B&D Appliance for all your appliance repair needs. |
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Low water pressure to faucets: |
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Unscrew the aerator at the tip where the water comes out and clean it. The aerator can get clogged with debris and may need to be cleaned periodically. |
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Refrigerator is not producing ice / water is not dispensing: |
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The icemaker line may have a crimp in it. Pull the appliance away from the wall and attempt to trace the line to determine whether or not it is crimped. |
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Water lines are frozen: |
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When the weather drops to freezing or below sometimes the water freezes inside your pipes. To prevent this, try keeping the faucet furthest from the water main dripping a little. This will keep the water moving and prevent pipes from freezing. |
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Check your flapper in the toilet: |
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1. Mark the water level inside the tank with a pencil. |
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2. After 10 minutes, check to see if the level has stayed the same. |
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3. If it has dropped, you may have a small leak. |
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Small leaks can cause BIG water bills. Check for leaks first by turning of water being used inside
the home and locating your water meter. Second, look at the red triangle (flow meter) inside
the meter box to see if it’s moving. If the flow meter is moving, you have a leak. Third, fix the
leak ASAP. Check out our drip calculator to see how much water is wasted. |
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Outside Irrigation |
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Water only before 6:00 am or after 8 pm. Can save 2--35 gallons per day. |
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Reduce irrigation cycle by 1-3 minutes or eliminate one cycle per week. Can save 15-20 gallons per minute up to 250 gallons per cycle.
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Add 2-3 inches of mulch to plantings. Can save 2-30 gallons per day per 1000 sq ft. |
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Replace portion of lawn with beautiful native or water wise plants. Can save 2-30 gallons per day per 1000 sq ft.
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Install drip irrigation for trees, shrubs, and flowers. Can save 20-25 gallons per day.
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Upgrade to a smart controller. May be eligible for a credit rebate of $60.00 from Palmdale Water District
for a SWAT tested smart controller.
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Water only top one inch of soil.
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Adjust sprinklers to prevent over-spray
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Repair Leaks |
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Water Wise Plants |
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 Lily of the Nile: Agapanthus, “Lily of the Nile" This choice perennial has large, drooping clusters of
intense blue flowers on stalks up to 3 feet tall emerging from dense clusters of evergreen strap like
foliage. |
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 Tecolote Ranunculus: Huge, double peony-like blooms in a professionally color-balanced mixture of
brilliant yellow, red, orange, pink, and white. Ideal in beds, rock gardens, and containers. Lush, long-
lasting flowers make wonderful bouquets. Tecolote ranunculus shades are clear, bright and unfailingly
cheerful. Café is unusual, a sultry mix of gold, terracotta and smoke, offering an uncommon degree of
depth and visual complexity. A hard to find color that takes ranunculus to a whole new level. |
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 Hall’s Honey Suckle: Hall’s Honey Suckle is an outstanding semi evergreen vine, perfect for fences,
walls, or use as a shrubby ground cover. Flowers are whitish yellow with a delightful fragrance. This
honey suckle variety is the old classic, one of those vines you plant in your garden and basically forget about. Grows fast to about 15 feet tall or more. Can be clipped to shape. If used as a ground cover Hall’s Honey Suckle grows to about two feet tall. This vine tolerates poor soil, preferring full sun and consistent water, but do not over water. Cut back plants in late winter to renew. |
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 Dianthus-Sweet William: Sweet William is an old-fashioned cottage garden plant that usually grows as
a self seeding biennial. This dwarf hybrid strain produces showy clusters of fragrant flowers in shades
of lavender, purple, rose, and red, often with an attractive contrasting eye. Terrific in containers or
fro edging borders. This strain of flower does well the first year and hopefully returns for a second.
Removing fading flowers to encourage more buds to form. Pruning plants back hard after blooming will
encourage then to survive for another year. Self sown seedlings may be moved in fall or early spring. |
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