A few years ago, the idea of drilling 500 feet into the ground to heat and cool your home year-round may have sounded a bit farfetched. Now that the federal government has created numerous subsidies for clean energy adoption for consumers just like you and your neighbors and also because the payoff for a geothermal heat pump system has become shorter, geothermal installation is not far from your reach. In fact, a team of Rothsville plumbers and Rothsville plumbing contractors can make your geothermal dreams an energy efficient and cost effective reality. Believe or not – once you install and begin using a geothermal heat pump to satisfy your home heating and cooling needs, you will see a decrease in your monthly and annual energy costs.

A geothermal heat pump sources heat from within the earth, where the temperature is steadily warmer than above ground. In summer, the geothermal heat pump reverses its functioning to take heat away from your home and replace it below ground. A geothermal heat pump, therefore, has the capability to replace a heater and an air conditioner. You can even pay off a geothermal heat pump within 10 to 20 years depending on the scope of installation and your energy needs, making Rothsville geothermal heat pump installation a wise investment.

Start saving money on your heating and cooling costs while reducing your carbon footprint. To learn more about how Rothsville plumbers can get started on installing your new geothermal heat pump, please call Lancaster Plumbing & Heating today.

Many of our customers report that before they called us to schedule a hot water heater maintenance, hot water heater repair, or hot water heater replacement visit, they heard a whistling noise or sputtering sound coming from the furnace. Furnace repairs and furnace maintenance are just a few of the Millersville plumbing services that can put an end to strange water heater noises. The best way to pinpoint the source and cause of the sound is to have a professionally trained Millersville plumber inspect the heating unit. A water heater may whistle because sediment has settled to the bottom of the tank. Sediment removal is a Millersville water heater repair that a Millersville plumber will gladly provide.

Sediment removal can rejuvenate your hot water heater. If you fail to remove the sediment, it will accumulate at the bottom of your hot water heater storage tank and can eventually corrode the tank. A corroded hot water heater tank can give you hot water that smells or contains particles of rust. Why take a rusty, smelly shower when you can instead have the sediment removed for you by a Millersville plumber or Millersville plumbing contractor? If you are sick and tired of falling asleep to the deep rustling hum of your hot water heater, then now is the time to call a Millersville plumber for timely and affordable hot water heater repairs or maintenance.

If it turns out that the noise coming from your water heater is not due to sediment, then a Millersville plumber can recommend any additional plumbing inspection procedures that could restore quiet functioning to your hot water heater.

Lancaster Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc. is expanding its territory and service trades and needs to fill immediate positions.

An open house will be held Thursday, November 17th from 6PM-8PM to fill the following positions:

• HVAC Installer
• HVAC Service Tech
• Plumbing Service Tech
• Drain Cleaning Tech
• Electrical Service Tech
• Customer Service/Dispatcher

Come prepared for an interview, please bring resumes. You will need to fill out our application upon arrival.

Address: 1184 Enterprise Road, East Petersburg, PA 17520

Lancaster Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc. offers health insurance, including dental and vision, 401K, paid vacation, and a great incentive program. All listed positions are full time.

All candidates that cannot attend the Job Fair can apply online at any time. http://lancaster.applybyweb.com
***Note: Electrical Service Techs please choose “HVAC Service” when applying online. Drain Cleaning Techs please choose “Plumbing Service” when applying online.

Requirements

Qualified candidates will be responsible, organized, excellent communicators, self-starters, confident, conscientious. Strong candidates have the ability to train others, interpret information to others, and have strong interpersonal relationship skills.

So you’ve just bought a home in East Petersburg, a home that was built a few decades ago and requires some maintenance to bring the plumbing systems and electrical systems up to speed? Some of your options are to perform all of the maintenance tasks yourself, hire a professionally qualified plumbing contractor to do the maintenance work, or to put off the work until something breaks and you can have it repaired. Hint: one of these options is a bad one! Can you guess which one? If you guessed the latter option – ignoring the minor plumbing difficulties until they become major plumbing issues – then you are on your way to incurring the much larger expense of plumbing repairs like sewer line replacement.

All of our East Petersburg plumbers have gotten up to their elbows in tricky plumbing problems and these experiences make them great at what they do – provide insight into your plumbing issues in addition to timely and cost-effect solutions. Scheduling a plumbing maintenance visit with an East Petersburg plumbing expert is a small investment that is well worth your while, because plumbing maintenance can reveal issues that you might not have even noticed, such as weak pipes, pipe obstructions, and outdated plumbing devices in need of maintenance.

Poor plumbing is more expensive to operate, so why not focus your efforts on plumbing maintenance by scheduling an annual plumbing maintenance visit with an East Petersburg plumber. From video camera sewer line inspection to drain rodding, East Petersburg plumbers have a solution ready for your unique plumbing issue.

Have you had your drains inspected by a Lancaster plumber lately? If not, then there is no time like the present to schedule a comprehensive sewer and drain clearing visit from a Lancaster plumber or Lancaster plumbing contractor. Our $99 sewer and drain clearing package will rid you of the frustration of violently plunging that pesky toilet every time it clogs or constantly fiddling with your slow-draining shower. Drain cleaning provides thorough removal of drain and sewer blockages so that you can get the most out of your plumbing system.

A drain cleaning visit from a Lancaster plumber can offer some helpful insight into what causes your most frequent plumbing problems, whether those are slow or clogged drains or strange sounds coming out of your plumbing fixtures. Using the most innovative plumbing technology instead of relying on harmful and cheap chemical drain cleaners, we at Lancaster Plumbing & Heating go deep into your drains to get at every sort of blockage from toilet paper clumps to children’s toys and jewelry.

Our $99 drain cleaning package comes with a one-year guarantee, meaning if the drain or drains we cleared get clogged or blocked again, you do not have to pay for a separate drain cleaning visit. We have quality in mind, and that is why we offer outstanding customer service to all of our Lancaster plumbing and Lancaster drain cleaning customers.

Please pick up the phone and call a Lancaster plumber or Lancaster plumbing contractor at Lancaster Plumbing & Heating today. We look forward to hearing from you.

Announcing our grand prize winner at the 2011 Lancaster Home Show…Cindy G. of, Elizabethtown! She is the winner of a new Aprilaire Whole House Humidifier! 
Cindy will soon experience the noticeable benefits of an Aprilaire Whole-House Humidifier. A whole-house humidifier will affect many aspects of her day to day life, which she probably didn’t realize!  A whole house humidifier will reduce the chances of upper respiratory problems, from infections and viruses like the common cold. It even speeds up recovery from a common cold! With a whole-house humidifier, Cindy will no longer experience dry, itchy skin, and dry nose and throat symptoms. The system will actually help alleviate these uncomfortable symptoms and more!
Cindy will also notice the difference in the interior of her home, from walls and hardwood floors, which leads to damaging and unsightly cracks. A whole-house humidifer will help protect her home and contents by supplying the correct amount of moisture in her home’s air. Cindy will also notice a difference in the energy savings a whole house humidifer provides. Most people turn up the thermostat because they feel cold. An Aprilaire Humidifier allows you to feel warmer at lower temperatures, saving up to 4% on your heating bill for every degree you lower your thermostat, according to the EPA. Congratulations to our winner, Cindy G.!!!

Before we proceed with today’s Akron geothermal heating tip, we should agree on a definition for geothermal heating. Geothermal heating is heat from the earth, meaning the source of the heat is heat from underground. While a solar heater sources heat from the sun, a geothermal heater sources heat from within the earth, meaning you can operate a geothermal heater  or geothermal heat pump on a cloudy day! Geothermal heating installation is often a cost effective heating system upgrade that can positively impact your heating costs. When you switch from gas heating to geothermal heating, you are investing in clean energy sourcing an making a positive impact on the environment.

Goethermal heating installation is a heating installation service that the Akron heating technicians and Akron heating experts at Lancaster will gladly provide. If you are looking for a long-term solution to skyrocketing heating bills, then geothermal service installation could be right for you. When you invest in energy sources that do not require fuel, you are reducing your carbon footprint. And when these clean energy sources are also less expensive than fuel-intensive heating, geothermal heating service installation becomes a no-brainer.

Geothermal heat pump installation works great for homes situated on large properties. Lots of ground space gives Lancaster geothermal heating experts plenty of room to dig and lay the geothermal heating infrastructure. Please get in touch with us today so we can speak with you more about if geothermal heat pump installation is the right energy efficient heating system upgrade for you.