Written for this climate, not a generic one
Each article works through a single question, grounded in what actually happens to slab-built houses in a subtropical climate, not advice written for a basement somewhere that gets a real winter.
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Ordered by usefulness to somebody with an active problem, not by publish date.
Why generic advice falls short here
Three assumptions nearly every generic article makes, and gets wrong for this coast.
Almost nothing here has one, and most houses skip a crawlspace too. Supply and drain lines run through or under a concrete slab, so the first visible sign of trouble is never at the actual failure. It shows up somewhere else entirely.
Most American plumbing advice is built around keeping pipe from freezing. The real threats on this coast are salt air, a water table sitting close to the surface, tree roots that never stop growing, and pipe that has simply aged out.
Across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, the utility responsible for the pipe at your property line is not the same from one city to the next, and sometimes not even from one block to the next, which is exactly why every city gets its own page here.
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