Plumbing Guides

Naples-area tap water depends on who supplies your street and how they treat it. Here’s what that means for your fixtures, water heater, pipes and well.

A plumber’s guide to Cape Coral tap water: where it comes from, how hard it is, and what it does to water heaters, fixtures and rubber parts.

Where to find the main water shutoff in a Southwest Florida home, how to tell a gate valve from a ball valve, and what to do before you ever need it.

Plain-English definitions of the plumbing terms Southwest Florida homeowners, condo owners and buyers run into, with local context for Lee, Charlotte and Collier Counties.

A plumber’s checklist for buyers of older homes in Lee, Charlotte and Collier Counties, organized by the decade the house was built.

A practical closing and reopening plumbing checklist for seasonal homes in Southwest Florida, written around our humidity, our storms and the way local homes are actually plumbed.

A practical guide for Florida condo owners on plumbing responsibility, the Chapter 718 insurance split, HO-6 questions, water heater rules and what to do before you leave for the season.

A practical checklist for getting ready for a plumber, knowing what happens during the visit, and keeping the right records afterward.

What actually changes the price of a slab leak in a Southwest Florida home, with comparison tables and checklists for insurance and for your plumber.

There’s no single price for a new water heater in Fort Myers. Here’s what actually moves the number, including fuel type, location, code upgrades and permits.