Backflow Testing and Prevention in Fort Wayne IN & Surrounding Communities

What Is Backflow?

Normally water flows forward from the city water supply system into your home. Backflow is the ‘backward flow’ back into the public water supply and can be caused by either backpressure or back siphonage of your plumbing system. If water flowing backwards contains hazardous chemicals, toxins or bacteria, this can cause a very unhealthy and even a very dangerous situation.

Your garden hose is the most common cause of backflow. For example, lets say you’re watering your garden with a pesticide applicator attached to the hose. You decide to go inside for a break and while you’re inside a drop in water pressure in the supply system causes a vacuum. This vacuum will pull the pesticide-laced water into your home. The very next time you or your neighbor’s turn on a faucet; the water could be laced with toxic chemicals. Water pressure drops are not uncommon, it may happen while a crew repairs a broken water main or firefighters put out a nearby fire.

We Can Protect You & Your Family

At Gibson’s Heating & Plumbing, we are specialists in backflow prevention and we can perform an evaluation to determine which backflow prevention device is best for your homes plumbing system.

Once our skilled plumber has installed the backflow prevention device in your home, water will be unable to flow back into the public water pipes. The backflow prevention device creates a closed plumbing system, keeping the water you and your family uses for cooking, bathing and drinking from becoming contaminated with bacteria, chemicals and harmful toxins.

Be Safe. Call Gibson’s and have a backflow device installed today. We sell, install and maintain the most reliable backflow prevention devices available.