The Top 3 Water-Wasting Appliances in Your Home and What You Can Do About It!

Before you answer this serious question before the house of common sense, think about what you propose to say. The $64 thousand dollar question is: “What appliance do you think is the biggest water-waster in most homes; perhaps, including yours?

Well, there probably wont’s be many surprises in answering that question, especially if you have a house full of teenagers. We are also assuming your water comes from Stuart’s public water utility and not water from a well.

Conserving Water Indoors Is The Key To A Lower Water Bill. That said, here are the usual suspects that most often top the rankings of wasting water in any home; teenagers or not.

Suspect Number #1 , A Leaky Toilet

Of course, it’s the leaky toilet that you purchased back when Bush was president. Old toilets tend to eventually lose water because, well, they’re just old. Toilets that date back then were very inefficient, to say the least. They wasted up to 3.61 gallons of water per flush – Yikes!

Suspect Number #2 , Dripping Faucets

Dripping faucets, dripping showers and pipe leaks are all listed together since those drip, drips, will sooner or later take its toll on your water bill. These three culprits can collectively waste nearly 10,000 gallons of water in one single year.

Talk with the local Stuart plumbing company you currently do business with and get onboard the “water-saving train” with a new toilet and sink. Also that showerhead you’ve been using accounts for 2.3 gallons of water down the drain every minute the shower is turned on.

Suspect Number #3, Inefficient Washing Machines

There’s a tie for the third position, between the washing machine and dishwasher. This may come as a surprise, but your washing machine is the second biggest water user in the home (toilets are first). On average 15 gallons of water is lost per person every day.

Also, don’t believe the bogus hype that washing dishes by hand beats the dishwasher; not so. You use up to 35 percent more water if you let the water continue to run, run, and run washing dishes by hand.

Here is a sidebar that’s another water-waster if you have a large family. Running the water until it gets warm to shave, brush your teeth or wait until the water gets cold enough to drink will literally waste 4 gallons of water. If all of this scenario fits you, time to call your plumber.

Now more than ever, conservation doesn’t require a lifestyle change! Call the professionals of Allore’s Plumbing at (772) 288-0998 to see how easy it is to conserve water in your Stuart home.