Recent content by wyeme

Hello! I just put a rather healthy bid on an antique French bath/shower mixture tap that I want to use in my new home. I was looking at a picture of it and realized the threads are probably not what we use here. Does anyone know what kind of threads I may encounter and where I can find the...

Looks like... Not a plumber here but a "do it yourselfer".... When I installed my laterals for the slab I created a drain box for tub/shower and two other pipes coming up from the floor. One was a vent pipe and the other for the lavatory. It looks to me by the layout that your basement was...

Electricity cheaper here Hi, I am building my own home and had originally designed a system with propane that includes DHW and radiant heat preheated by solar going into a propane water heater. However, I began some btu and kwh calculations and found that electricity is much cheaper here. In...

Greetings and, by the way, thanks for this forum! I am near completion of building my own home (everything done by me except placing concrete for slab) and am beginning my rough plumbing. I have done remodel plumbing before, which was rather simple since everything tied into an existing...