Residential Backflow Testing
When you select Raleigh Backflow to test and certify your backflow preventer, you're getting more than you may think.We wear boot covers to protect your floors, as well as clean up any messes made during your backflow inspection. We have been trained not to watch the clock, but to watch their work. While other Raleigh backflow testing companies may want to get in, certify your backflow device, then get on to their next customer, Raleigh Backflow is the polar opposite.
We will be certifying your valve as well as a routine cleaning and repair or replacement of any loose or broken parts. Commerical buildings Raleigh Backflow is our specialty along with residential homes, we repair , test and install..
Considering the fact that safe drinking water is vital to human survival, it seems strange that the utility companies (purveyors) charge so little for the life-giving product they sell. The courts have deemed that water is a product and not a service to the public.
The water purveyors take the raw material and process this material through their factories (water plants) and then sell this product to their customers for a profit. In the U.S. products which are sold for a profit have an implied warranty that the products are usable. Water has a warranty that it is fit for human consumption.
The water purveyors deliver the product through a series of pipes (transmission mains and distribution mains) to the customers' water meters. Once the product (clean water) is delivered through the water meters to the customers, the water purveyor does not want this same water to return back through the meters and out into the public water supply. Backflow Study
Most customers manage to contaminate the water they use and normally this contaminated fluid passes to the waste collection system. Unfortunately the water sometimes reverses direction back through the water meter. This reversal of direction is called BACKFLOW. The most common type of backflow is backsiphonage.
Backsiphonage is caused by a sudden loss of pressure in the, public water mains. This loss of pressure can be caused by a broken water main, a fire nearby where the Fire Department is using large quantities of water, or simply by opening a fire hydrant to test it. Any buildings near the break or the fire hydrant being used will experience a lowering of the water pressure. This is the time backsiphonage occurs.
This is not a problem if everyone's plumbing systems are built and maintained according to the plumbing code. Water might never be contaminated if all customers' plumbing systems were designed, constructed and inspected by individuals that fully understood the hydraulics of moving water.
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