WHO INVITED THE PLUMBER TO THANKSGIVING DINNER?

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Fall and winter are great times with families getting together, bringing joy and happiness.  Sometimes the fun is interrupted by annoying plumbing problems.  Here are a few great tips to keep the plumber out of your holiday season.

Thanksgiving is a plumber’s busiest time—thanks to garbage disposals and houses full of guests. Clogged pipes and sewers are major headaches during the holidays.  Most can be prevented.  

Kitchen sinks with garbage disposals are hot points around Thanksgiving.  Everyone wants to help, with the result that many plates and dishes are emptied into the garbage disposal.  Garbage disposals are designed to handle small amounts of leftovers, not plate after plate being shoveled into them, and never fibrous materials such as corn husks and banana peelings.  Avoid using the disposal during preparation and after large meals. Should the disposal be used, run plenty of water while the disposal is running and up to 20 seconds after it is turned off.  The water pushes the debris down the small kitchen line into larger pipes.

Sewer main stoppages are horrible.  If you have an older home and have to snake roots from your system every year or so, you know what this is like.  Are you expecting a crowd for the holidays?  Putting 15 people in a house can overwhelm the plumbing. Some of your guests, especially children, may love to use excessive amounts of toilet paper.   Minor defects, such as partial root blockage, are minor only until the system is put under unusual use or abuse.  Why wait until a major problem arises during the holidays?  Early preventive maintenance is much more convenient than dealing with a sewer stoppage when everybody is at your house.   

A few simple actions outside the house also go a long way to ensure your holidays are hassle-free.  Don’t forget to remove the water hose from the hydrant.  Newer frost-proof hydrants don’t always work as they should.  The best way to keep the hydrant from freezing is to take the water hose off.  Second, if the hydrant is dripping, get it fixed!  The constant flow of water may cause the hydrant to freeze and break.  You will not know it’s broken until you’re ready to use it, generally next spring.  Installing a shutoff at the hydrant mouth does not provide much protection.  Inexpensive hydrant covers are easy to install and are worth the investment.  Closing vent openings in crawl spaces (including the access door) helps maintain heat in the house and keeps cold air from reaching water pipes and drains.  The vent openings should not be permanently sealed, but during the cold months a good seal yields good results.  Skirting on mobile homes should be checked for cracks and holes. 

With a little effort and planning, you can get through the holidays without the inconvenience of a stoppage or broken pipe.  Schedule your pipe and drain maintenance now so you won’t have to set an extra place for the plumber at the Thanksgiving table. 

Todd Feehan has sixteen years experience in plumbing and owns Dad’s Plumbing.  He can be reached at 405/602-2615.

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Your IPhone Repair Houston Geeks Can Help With Many Issues

When you last had your iPhone repair service company replace the glass on your device, or had the back case replaced, did you ever think to ask them about any other problems you might be having at the moment? Instead of paying AT&T or Apple Genius employees from one to two hundred dollars to clear up any issues, or education concerning your iPhone, ask your iPhone repair Houston service technician instead. They may still charge you a fee for the time involved, but chances are in your favor that resolving an issue, or training you will come at a deeply discounted price.

Large corporations that sell these devices have huge overheads, and the only way they can justify you monopolizing the time of a ten-dollar per hour employee, is to charge you between seventy-five to one hundred and fifty bucks for their time. Having a geek or technician that lives to bit-twiddle these handy little devices will often know more than an entire store full of Apple employees about the iPhone. The reason is that they are a student of the product they work on each day, and are not just simply going to work to keep their spot warm, but have a love or a passion for these products.

Yes, for the most part all products that start with the lower case i from Apple are pretty self explanatory, but there are those who are not as tech savvy, and have trouble navigating menus, creating and sending email, or just texting on their sleek communication device. This would also be a great opportunity to buy a gift card form some mini training sessions for that Aunt who has trouble negotiating with the photo-printing kiosk at the corner drug store, or the grand parent who does not know their iPhone from a xylophone.

Technology is coming at consumers at an overwhelming pace today, even new Harley Davidson motorcycle owners that are not techno-hounds are finding even their onboard computer devices a little much for their level of knowledge. The point here is, that the very people who do iPhone repair in or near your Houston neighborhood, will most likely be glad to train you or a family member for a modest price.

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After interviewing these clients who have been spending their marketing dollars monthly on services that really do not exist, the stark truth about their situation hits them, and instead of using a Houston SEO company that can truly help them get the sales calls they need coming in daily, they clam up, and quit trying all together. This is an extreme emotional situation, and one that is warranted because they feel victimized.

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Social Media Marketing Platforms - This is a very important part of the overall SEO, and online sales arena. Not so much for the networking, but again, the major search engine are lending some weight to these online arenas, and being a solid part of their membership will offer some authority to your local business listings, and website too. Do not discount the power of Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, but at the same time do not depend completely on them as a source of leads. We offer a solution that uses this part of the industry as a positive in the overall marketing picture for your company's promotion.

Video Ranking or Video SEO - Did you know that most people think that the most popular search engines from most important to least are Google, Yahoo, and then Bing. The truth is that the order of popularity for searching the Internet is Google, Youtube, Facebook Twitter, Yahoo, and then Bing.com. Do your own research on this if you do not believe us, and you will garner the same results in short order.

Our ability to have your firm become found in a top ranking position on Youtube, Google Video, and even have your promotional videos ranking in the regular search results of Google on page one is for lack of a better term - second to none. The power to not only have your website showing up for page one results to get in front of potential clients, but to have your videos ranking along side your domain is the quickest, and most effective way in dominating your competition, and leaving them to wonder what happened to their daily sales lead base from their own online efforts.

In a nutshell, Adplanet Creative's SEO Houston services offers a complete package that will allow you to dominate local, nationwide, and globally at an affordable price compared to what you normally spent with dozens of printed business directories, and yellow page ads of the past.

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Let’s face it SEO Houston articles are not fun to write, and you would rather go fishing, or even go shopping with your spouse than to sit down and pound out twenty to thirty SEO articles to link to your business website. It ranks right up there with public speaking for most people, and that spells “Fear” for the general population. If you just sit at your keyboard, and cannot seem to let the words flow, then you are the perfect client for a SEO article writing service such as ours.

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The cost of an American based SEO article writer will run you on average between twelve, and thirty dollars per SEO article. The established writers with a good client base can cost over fifty dollars per three hundred word article with proper copy-writing, and SEO optimization is used for gaining search engine ranking. People in business want the lowest cost, and the best performance, and using third world writers without cutting edge SEO practices will net them little if nothing in gaining in the search engine placement rankings.

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