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Practical, local plumbing advice for Paarl and the Cape Winelands. More articles on the way.
How to match each filter stage to your water test, the order the stages go in, why boxed kits and raw-water UV disappoint, and how a borehole filter system should be plumbed.
Read the guideWhat a Paarl summer normally takes off a pool, the 24-hour bucket test that settles it, and how the level your pool stops at tells you whether it is the skimmer, the light or a buried pipe.
Read the guideThe early-warning signs of a pipe about to crack in an older Paarl home, and a simple checklist to get ahead of the winter cold fronts.
Read the guideHow the mountain slope, the municipal supply and the seasons set your pressure, what a pressure-reducing valve does, and when you need one fitted or replaced.
Read the guideIron and manganese staining, scale in your geyser, the by-law meter your connection legally needs, and the one connection rule most local installations break.
Read the guideThe T&P safety valve that quietly causes bursts, what scale and mountain-slope pressure do to a tank out here, and what your home insurance will and will not pay for.
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