Plumbing isn’t just inside your house; it extends outside to your hoses, spigots, and taps. An essential component of your exterior plumbing is the vacuum breaker. Often, the vacuum breaker is a requirement of the municipalities, as it plays a vital part in ensuring clean drinking water.
The vacuum breaker is housed inside your exterior taps connected to garden hoses and prevents dirty hose water from flowing backward into your home and contaminating your drinking water.
Backflow is contaminated water that flows backward through your pipes, hoses, and plumbing. When water flow is reversed, the risk of contaminants and pollutants entering your drinking water is high, and so are all the health concerns that come with dirty drinking water.
Preventing backflow can appear to be a simple DIY project, but the system can be more intricate than simply screwing a vacuum breaker into your faucet. Ensuring that a drop in water pressure won’t result in backflow may require multiple breakers, complicating the installation process.
Multiple valve system
There are breaker vacuum systems that simply control the flow and some that actively stop the backflow. A system that will control and stop any contaminated water from entering your drinking water will require multiple valves.
Depending on your home and the current system, we can assess the type of vacuum breaker replacement necessary for your situation and protect your water from contamination from hoses, sprinkler systems, irrigation systems, and sewer lines.
