Plumbing

Now that I've got your attention ... ... Our bath tub has drained slow ever since we have been living here but it hasn't backed up "YET" soooooooo ... ... My question is this: ... ... "Can you use a roto-rooter snake in the bath tu...

Hi guys- My house was built in 1950 so its bound to have issues I know-but this one has just raised its ugly head. It seems only to be the Faucet on the kitchen sink that "Groans" when you use it-vibrating in the pipe mounts. What can cause...

... We have lived in this old house for about 3 years now, knowing that sooner or later the "gray water line" was going to need replacing or roto-rooting bigtime. Well, we have roto rooted until that don't work no mo and now it is time t...

Bear with me - this has to do with plumbing. ... ... The only thing on my Christmas list this year will be this: ... ... I want a next door neighbor that is married with 4 great kids, a wife that makes him work all kinds of odd jobs so she can spen...

Here's a pretty cool tip for retrieval of small objects that are dropped down the sink drain by mistake. ... ... http://www.familyhack.com/2007/08/29/drain-tip/ ... ... Some of you may not want to give up your good panty hose so just sneak a pair o...

My 3" roof vent is plugged about 6" down from the top. It's black metal and over 50 years old. I can get down to the 90 degree elbow, but can't get a snake pass it. I was told that black iron has a elbow for air and cast iron has one for wa...

My septic tank don't seem have a vent right at the tank. It has a small air pump with an alarm buzzer that appears to blow air in the tank. I have 3 toilets in the house and I noticed that the water in all three moves up and down. The toilets seem...

HEY EVERYONE a friend of mine told me about this place to get some help. S\N(a personal touch ). anyways ..i got this house from my sister in laws brother that has no idea what hes doing. i think?...he decided to put all stand up showers in both b...

If in the event of a breakage of the flange where the two bolts slide in to fasten the toilet down, try using a couple larger sized hose clamps to keep it held together. This works quite well for just holding the bolts vertical while the wax ring is...

Hi everyone. I have been doing some side work to get money funds re-cooperated. Baseboard Trim work and such in a friends house ... Well she decided to have another friend fream out part of her basement into a small theatre/ Bar, and then we Decide...

I got a wild hair and thought I'd experiment with a solar water heater box. As I started to lay the piping in, I changed my mind in how much linear feet I wanted and added some more. 3/4" sch40 PVC pipe. About 104 linear feet of it shoved into ...

I had to replace our kitchen taps..........Of course the wife won't settle for anything normal....it has to be the fancy, smancy jobbie with the removeable sprayer and all that crap..... ... ... Only problem with it is, the hose going to this spraye...

OK, Gang, y'all nailed the water holding problem in my upstairs toilet and now it has progressed to an awareness of how really &%#$ up this plumbing really is. All I am trying to do is to improve (not fix) on what the previous owners have done. ...

We very seldom use the bathroom upstairs and ever since we bought the house, the toilet won't hold the water in the bowl very long. After you flush it, it will stay filled for a little while but several days later it is almost bone dry again. The t...

It's too hot to work outside so I guess I'll take this chance to fix my shower problem. ... ... I installed the shower per the instructions to level all three sides but this isn't working since water pools in the back corners of the seats. I guess w...

as i said before im a handyman for some apartments and i have some tenants pouring grease down the sink . this causes big backups ans hours of pain in the ass work. what im wondering is if there is a grease trap to put uner the sink to try and figure...

Ater reading "Come On's" post about their house fire and appliances, I thought I'd post this. ... ... Something we take for granted are the hot and cold water suppy hoses on our washing machines. ... ... My neighbors had theirs burst in t...

Here's one for you. Today, all of a sudden our water became very slick and oily feeling. Almost like dish soap without the suds but it never became cloudy, it stayed very clear. I called the water service company and by the time they called me bac...

I'm new to installing water heaters (I guess I'm a virgin of sorts again...), and need a little advice on what to expect. This is for a natural gas 40 gallon replacement situation. The old one doesn't leak (yet anyways), but I'm sick of taking cold ...

I have one of those deep taps running from my basement out through the block wall to outside. It is one of those that has the shutoff about a foot inside, so that the tap doesn't freeze in the winter. Inside where the shutoff is, is closed in so I ha...

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