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My Mother has had a year long nightmare with a NOVO 485HE-100 water softener that was installed by a local plumber. From the very beginning it would regenerate as needed without regards to the time of day even though it was set not to. The worst part though is that when regenerating while...

I just put a new cartridge in my Delta single handle shower faucet (1300 series I think). I changed it with a replacement cartridge made by "Danco" that was bought at a big box store. After the job was done I tested it and everything seemed fine. While my daughter was taking the first real...

I have installed 2 Cadet 3 toilets in the past with no problems and have been very happy with their performance. Moved into a new house about a year and a half ago and decided to change the 1997 Gerbers that clog at least 3 times a week. I bought the Cadet's from a local plumbing wholesaler in...

The Gerber toilets in my new 1997 house have a shroud in the tank surrounding the flush valve. It basically looks like a coffee can. When you flush, the water on the inside of the "can" goes down through the flush valve and the water outside seems to just stay there. I have never seen anything...

Please forgive the long story. Just want to get all the info out..... My basement has a toilet, two floor drains, and a drain pipe for the washer. They all converge (at one point I assume) into the main stack. One of the floor drains has a shower stall over it. In the past I have had to...

I am going to be installing a water softener in a house I'm buying and will need to re-route some things. I am thinking of using Pex. I found a video on YouTube that showed 6 different methods of putting on ends. The two I'm considering are the crimp ring or the banding clamp. Which is the...

I have a Mansfield toilet in my basement (on a concrete floor) that has the hole for the trap way on the front of the bowl instead of the rear like most toilets. It works fine, but I am assuming it's original to the house which was built in 1964. I have changed few toilets myself and usually...