What Is Backflow Prevention?
Backflow refers to the undesirable reverse flow of water and any other materials through the cross-connection back into clean water mains. The already utilised water may pose a great health risk and even death to individuals using the water since it may already be contaminated. It is, therefore, vital to keep our water clean by ensuring that already utilised waste water does not find its way back into the clean water mains through backflow prevention.
Why Is Backflow Prevention Needed?
Backflows are often caused through a back-siphonage or back-pressure. These two can often result from several external factors such as pressure changes, temperature changes, among others within the cross-connect. Therefore, backflow may occur at any moment in time without warning, thus causing portable water contamination posing health problems to families and society. That is why Sharpline Plumbing recommends backflow prevention to avoid the issues of water contamination due to backflow, which are much harder and more expensive to deal with afterward.
Backflow Prevention Methods
In embracing backflow prevention, specialists at Sharpline Plumbing are trained and equipped to utilise and apply the best two and conventional methods of backflow prevention. These methods include the installation of an air gap in the system or backflow prevention devices.
The air gap method is the simplest, most reliable, and cost effective method in Sydney and all over the world. It is simply an open vertical space between any device that connects to a plumbing system (like a valve or faucet) and any place where contaminated water can collect. An air gap, therefore, does not require sophisticated machinery and devices only the flowing water, thus contributing to its popularity.
Alternatively, Sharpline Plumbing is also equipped with backflow prevention devices, and our staff are qualified and certified for their installation. In situations where an air gap cannot be installed due to insufficient vertical clearance/physical space, or when it is a pressurized operation among other factors, a specialised backflow preventer valve may be installed at strategic locations in the plumbing system wherever there is a risk of contaminated water backflow into the mains system. Specific regulations are often laid out to dictate valve designs to be used in correspondence to the category of the hazards. Therefore, it may entail the installation of a single or double mechanical check valves backflow prevention device within the plumbing system.
Nevertheless, the plumbing code requires the installation of both the air gap and the check valves for cases of higher contamination risks.
Backflow Testing and Annual Checks
Every system installation requires proof testing to ensure that it is operating at optimum capacity. Furthermore, these backflow prevention devices might also fail after a while due to several factors, and it is because of this reason that backflow testing, annual checks, and maintenance are always carried out by our certified technicians. This would help prevent the development of a minor system complication into a backflow and contamination.
Your Local Backflow Prevention Experts
The technicians at Sharpline Plumbing are qualified and certified in backflow and its prevention. We personally handle the provision of the equipment/devices, the installation, the essential paperwork about the annual checks, and we also remind our clients when the annual backflow inspections are due. We will ensure your family has clean water for utilisation, and that your property plumbing system is up to the standards required by the state and local water authorities.
Throughout Sydney, Sharpline Plumbing is the best because we put your health and that of your family, above all. Moreover, our prices are fair, and our expert technicians are trained to conduct a thorough inspection, deduce the backflow threat location, and install the best backflow prevention device suited to your specific needs.
Contact the experts at Sharpline Plumbing for guaranteed best service delivery and outstanding results on backflow prevention.
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