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When you become a homeowner, you take on the responsibility of maintenance and care of every appliance in your home. When something doesn’t work quite right, you’ve got to make the decision on whether it’s best for you to dive in and fix it yourself or whether you should call for help from a professional.

When you’re dealing with plumbing issues, the correct answer is almost always to call for a professional plumbing service to fix what’s wrong at your Haslet, TX home. That’s because in almost every case, it’s both more cost-effective and more convenient to let an expert handle the job, rather than trying to fix things on your own. Here are just a few reasons why you might want to hire a professional plumbing service to fix whatever’s wrong with your pipes!

The Tools For the Job

Have you ever purchased a tool that has done nothing but sit in your toolbox ever since you completed the one job that you needed it for? Most DIYers have faced a situation like this more than once, and when it occurs, it’s either an unnecessary expense, an added tool that takes up space that could be used for something else, or both. Plus, if it’s a tool that’s relatively unfamiliar to you, you might not be using it properly, meaning that your purchase of whatever you needed for your emergency plumbing service efforts has gone to waste.

By contrast, a team of professional plumbers always has the right tools for the job and knows exactly how to use them. Whether you’ve had a pipe burst at your Haslet, TX home or you’ve discovered a small puddle under your sink, a professional plumbing service will have the tools needed to get the job done right the first time.

Plus, if there’s been a recent upgrade in plumbing best practices, or a new tool introduced that makes the work much easier, your local plumber is much more likely to have it than your local hardware store. After all, your neighborhood hardware store is meant to be a one-stop shop for today’s DIYer, but a plumber’s livelihood is based entirely on knowing how to fix issues with pipes and drains and knowing what tool will get the job done right. If anyone’s got the tools for the job — without you having to store them — it’s going to be your local plumbing service.

Top-Quality Work Every Time

Think for a minute about your chosen career. Chances are that you spent a good amount of time learning how to do your job well. Maybe you went to college to get the knowledge and skills you needed to become a teacher, or maybe you once tagged along with experienced salespeople to learn how to close the deal yourself. In almost all cases, if you’ve been in your career for a while, you’ve likely gained a lot of experience that helps you do your job well.

It’s no different for a plumbing service. Professional plumbers have trained for years to know where to look for a problem, what the signs are of a leak that might be hidden in the walls, what kind of pipe will best fit to prevent further damage, where that blockage in the drain might be. When you call for a professional plumber in Haslet, TX, you aren’t just getting a professional to do the job. You’re also getting their knowledge, their experience, their abilities, every skill that they’ve gained over the years to help them do their job correctly.

As a DIYer, you aren’t going to have anywhere near the same knowledge that a licensed professional plumber has, and in this case, what you don’t know can really hurt you. For example, if you use the wrong fitting to connect two pipes, you might have a temporary solution to your drainage issue, but when it comes time to sell the house and your buyer has a professional take a look at everything to make sure there are no hidden problems with the house, it’s really going to backfire on you. That’s because if your work isn’t up to code, your potential buyer is either going to drastically slash their offer or even walk away from your house entirely.

That’s never a worry when you hire a professional plumbing service to do the work, because you know for a fact that their work is going to be in accordance with best practices. Their reputation depends on it, and like with any career, their reputation is only as good as the work they performed on their most recent task.

A Measure of Convenience

If you’re like most people, you probably have something else that you’d rather be doing with your weekends than fixing the sink or clearing the drain. Maybe you’d like to try out a new recipe, watch a movie, or get outside for some fresh air. Regardless of what activity you’d like to pursue, chances are that plumbing isn’t really high on your list — and that’s before you consider the work that you have to do before you ever touch a tool.

Consider this: to do the job right at your Haslet, TX home without hiring a plumbing service, you have to first identify the problem. Next, you must figure out what tool will be best to fix it, drive to the hardware store and hope that they have the tool you need, learn how to use the tool properly and then put everything that you’ve just learned into practice. Not only is it a difficult task to try to learn something in an hour that plumbers have spent years learning, but it’s also a time-consuming process. From start to finish, that could use up the entire weekend — something that no homeowner wants to have happen.

When you call for a professional plumbing service, you don’t have to worry about wasting your time trying to fix something that you might not have the knowledge to repair properly in the first place. Instead, all you have to do is call your local plumber and figure out how quickly they can make it to your residence. Then, all you have to do is stay out of their way and let them go to work. The most you’ll have to do for the rest of the job is answer any questions that the plumber has about the situation, such as where your water shut-off valve is. Otherwise, you’re free to take care of whatever else is on your list — with the knowledge that the problem is getting fixed by someone who knows exactly how to fix it properly.

You Won’t Make Things Worse

Almost every plumber has some kind of horror story about a customer who thought they could fix what they thought was a simple clog in their pipes and created a true catastrophe. Whether it’s turning standing water into a biohazard by pouring Drano into it or loosening a pipe without knowing how to properly fix it, home owners in Haslet, TX have been making serious errors with their plumbing since indoor plumbing was first invented.

Why? The reality is that most people simply don’t have the knowledge of their plumbing system that they think they do, and they certainly don’t have the knowledge that a plumbing service does. When you try to fix something on your own, what often happens is that you either don’t fix it properly the first time, leaving a different problem in place, or you create a new problem in your efforts to fix the first one. Neither solution is an ideal one, and both can be avoided simply by calling for professional help.

Truthfully, this is one of the best reasons to work with a plumbing service when something goes wrong with your pipes. Until you’ve actually been in there and seen the pipes for yourself, you simply aren’t going to possess the knowledge to fix the damage properly and ensure that it doesn’t need to be fixed a second time. For most homeowners, there’s never a need to obtain such esoteric knowledge, and they’re much better off trusting someone else to do the job.

You’ll Minimize Nasty Surprises

One of the most difficult things about working with a plumbing service is the unpleasant surprises that come with working on a customer’s home. Unfortunately, as soon as you solve one problem, you’re likely to run into another one, or even two more. Maybe you’ve isolated the possible locations of a blockage in your pipes, but you’ve discovered that in order to get to where the pipe actually is, you’ve got to do some major work that you don’t have the tools to do properly.

This can happen, and it’s every DIYer’s nightmare. But it’s something that doesn’t happen when you hire a professional plumbing service to help. That’s because all of that experience means that it’s very difficult to show a plumber any issue with your pipes or drains that they haven’t seen before. You might surprise a plumber a little with the details of your problems, but in almost all cases, they have the tools available and the patience to get things fixed the right way.

What’s more, a professional plumbing service will minimize your risk of nasty surprises by being totally transparent with the work they’re doing on your Haslet, TX home. That means they’ll give you a thorough explanation of why they’re performing the work they are, so that you know exactly what to expect when they start getting the job done. If they spot something that needs to be fixed right away, they’ll let you know what the issue is and why you’ve got to get it fixed.

Obviously, you don’t have to worry about transparency when you’re the one doing the work, but that doesn’t do you much good unless you know for a fact what you need to do to fix your plumbing problems.

The Worst Is Covered

Let’s say that your home does present the one-in-a-million thing that your local plumbing service hasn’t seen before, and in an attempt to fix things, your plumber accidentally causes a pipe to burst, which causes major damage to your home. Isn’t that a worst-case scenario?

Actually, it isn’t, because any quality plumbing service is licensed and insured, meaning that they will cover the cost of any damage that they cause inside your home. If something does go wrong with your pipes and your plumber is at fault, their insurance will cover the damage and pay for your home to be restored to pre-accident conditions. Other than some inconveniences of having to get more work done on your home, you won’t be out anything extra.

If you’re trying to do the work on your own and you cause something to go wrong, however, you’re on the hook for all of the costs and repairs. If you cause a pipe to burst because you wanted to try to fix it yourself instead of hiring a plumbing service, not only will you have to pay to replace the pipe, but you’ll end up hiring a plumber anyway and have to look at hiring another specialist to fix any damage that you did to your Haslet, TX home. In almost all cases, it’s not worth the risk.

It can be tempting to want to try to handle things yourself, but when it comes to plumbing issues, there’s simply too much that can go wrong with your pipes and too great a risk of damage to go the DIY route. There’s a time and place for saving money with DIY projects, but unless you’ve been specifically trained as a plumber, your drains and pipes aren’t the thing to try to fix.

Instead, it’s best to call in a plumbing service that you can trust, and at Benjamin Franklin Plumbing of Fort Worth, we’ve got the knowledge and wherewithal to fix your plumbing issues right the first time. Contact us for assistance with your Haslet, TX home and get the peace of mind that comes from hiring the Punctual Plumber!