Plumbing Ideas for Your Outdoor Living Space

Do you spend more time outside than inside during the warmer months? If your outdoor living space is becoming more glamorous than the inside of your home, you are a true lover of spending time outdoors. You have the pool, patio and outdoor kitchen to make your backyard the ultimate oasis for your free time. But have you added plumbing to finish the process? Here are a few plumbing ideas to complete the ultimate outdoor living space:

  • Outdoor shower. If you have a chlorine pool, you need a shower outside to make it quick and easy to rinse off after a swim. Create a private area with cedar walls for the shower and you may want to use it every day.
  • Plumbing for your outdoor kitchen. The outdoor kitchen has become a popular asset for outdoor living areas, but many are not fully plumbed into the water system of the home. Add a fully functional sink to make cleaning up and cooking your fantastic meals a breeze.
  • Cool water features. Add a waterfall, bubbling fountain or other water feature to give your outdoor area even more pizazz. It can help cool the air while adding a visual and audio backdrop that only moving water can provide.
  • Outdoor bar. If you love serving cocktails to your guests, adding a plumbed sink and icemaker to your outdoor bar will make you the ultimate host or hostess.

Bring your indoor plumbing outdoors with the help of your local plumber. With everything you need in your backyard, you may not want to go back inside until the winter weather rolls in.

Posted on behalf of:
Kiddco Plumbing Inc
Sterling, VA
(703) 435-4441

Has Summer Got You Thinking About Outdoor Plumbing?

Hot summer days call for time outside on the deck or patio, grilling food in the great outdoors when its too hot to cook in the kitchen. For those who love this time of year, the summer season is a great time to consider ways that plumbing could make your summers even better. If outdoor entertaining is one of your favorite summer activities, here are some plumbing ideas to help make it easier.

  • Outdoor kitchens. Are you tired of running in and out of the house during your summer grilling parties? Why not add an outdoor kitchen area, fully equipped with a plumbed sink for easy cooking and cleaning?
  • Wet bar. If you are an amateur mixologist or just like a cold beverage on a hot day, think how great it would be to have a fully functional wet bar on your patio or by the pool. Your house will be the most popular in the neighborhood!
  • Outdoor shower. If you have a pool or hot tub, an outdoor shower is an excellent way to rinse off the chlorine water, saving your skin and hair from potential damage. Even if you don’t have either a pool or a spa, there’s nothing like showering outside on a hot summer day to cool off.

There are many great ways to add convenience and fun to your home’s backyard with the addition of indoor plumbing in your outdoor areas. In addition to providing more outdoor amenities, outdoor plumbing can keep people from needing to go in and out of your home as much while you entertain outdoors. This limits the mess of entertaining to a few areas while also allowing greater energy efficiency in your home as doors are opened less frequently. Talk to your local plumber for more ideas on how to add water fixtures to your patio or deck area.

Posted on behalf of Shawn Bynum, Bynum Plumbing

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Outdoor Drinking Fountains

You have a swimming pool. You have kids and your kids have friends. Kids get thirsty and need to stay hydrated.

You don’t want them to drink the pool water. You don’t want them drinking from the garden hose. You don’t want them constantly tracking through the house to get a drink and you don’t want to be a busperson, delivering drinks all day long.

Solution? Install an outdoor drinking fountain. This can be a job you do yourself, contract out or it can be a combination of the two. If you are well-versed in all areas of outdoor installations and plumbing, then have at it. The average homeowner, however, is likely to benefit by utilizing a professional plumber.

Whether-or-not you do all the work yourself you should be familiar with the overall process. Following is a list of the basic steps involved with putting in an outdoor drinking fountain.

  • Location and trenching – You want the fountain in a convenient spot and you need to be able to access your cold-water supply. This is a good time to test-fit your water lines and identify any obstacles (fencing, masonry, etc.) that need to be worked around or through.
  • Set the water line – In most instances you will want to sleeve the water line, that is, run the water line through a larger diameter pipe.
  • Tap into cold-water line – This portion of the project will involve some basic pipe-cutting and soldering skills.
  • Set Fountain – When you place your fixture make sure you have allowed room for control valves and supply lines before permanently affixing the fountain and burying your water line.
  • Final steps – Be certain that all connections are secure, finalize the securing of the fountain and turn on your water supply.

Now you can you can close the patio doors and point to the fountain when the kids want to come traipsing into the house.