Plumbtegrity LLC
About us
Plumbtegrity is a family owned business based in Georgetown, Texas and serving the entire Central Texas area including Bell, Williamson and Travis counties. Our Name, Plumbtegrity is meant to say just that, plumbing with integrity.
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Services we offer
Plumbtegrity is a full service plumbing company. We provide plumbing service, as well as plumbing for residential remodels., repair and replacement to home owners and light commercial customers
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In the next hour, the hot and cold water pipes were stubbed out at the right height for the shower fixture and a T was inserted into the water supply for the vanity in the master bathroom. There is no outside faucet on the north side of the house, and it requires 150' of hose to reach it from the closest faucet. While the wall was opened it was an optimal time to provide an external water supply. The guys with Plumbtegrity did not have a bib with them to put on to the faucet, and did not want to use the one I had, so they told me they would swing back by the house in a couple of days to attach one.
I paid the bill in full and waited to hear back about when the outside faucet would be finished. As I was planning to call Plumbtegrity to do more work on the master bathroom when we were ready to set the tub and install the sinks, I was not in too much of a rush for them to get back to me. Finally, though, it became inconvenient not to have the outside faucet working, so I called them. Also, there is a hot water recirculating pump installed in this house and the hot water loop end point that controls sending the hot water back through the pipes attached at this vanity fittings. Here is an explanation of how it works:
Passive hot water recirculation systems work well and are energy efficient; they can cost approximately $500 to $700, including installation.
There are two different types of passive systems. One is the Grundfos Comfort Series, which involves an electric pump that is placed on the hot water heater outlet, pressurizing your hot water system to 3 to 4 psi (pounds per square inch). The Grundfos system enables you to install a bypass valve at remote locations where necessary (at the kitchen or vanity sink, for example). The bypass valve bleeds some hot water into the cold water system periodically to maintain the hot water at a level that most customers would be happy with. The benefit to this system is that it can be retrofitted after the sheetrock is up. The downside is that some people notice that their cold water initially can come out a little warm.
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After having the pipe added so that an outside faucet could have a water supply, the hot water recirculation pump no longer worked properly. When I contacted Plumbtegrity about the bib for the faucet, I mentioned this to them. The same two guys who had done the work the first time returned to attached the bib and examine the hot water recirculation pump. After noting that it was on, one of them called Jimmy and discussed the situation. I tried to explain how the bypass valve is designed to work but I was assured that it was installed the same way as it was before the T for the outside faucet was added. Plumbtegrity also insured me that nothing they had done had compromised the functioning of the hot water recirculation pump. I told them we would leave it for right now and see about fixing it when the sink for the vanity was installed. The guys installed the bib on the outside faucet and left.
A few days later I received a call from Plumbtegrity asking me to pay an additional $90 for installation of the faucet bib. This was on top of the $392 I had already paid for the 1 1/2 hours they were there the first time. Shortly after that I went out and attached a garden hose to the new outside faucet and found the hot water that is no longer circulated through the house. The hot water has now been routed to the outside faucet where it is wasted on the plants.
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