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So I go to the basement and hear noise where my water main enters the house. It sounds as though a faucet is on and water is being used, BUT all my faucets are closed. I go over and notice the...

I was looking into the urinal that goes to the floor, for the children, but in the end we decided to go with the wall mount.

I guess it doesn't look to hard to do, if there is a vent right...

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I am looking to see if we can change the toilet we have now in a commercial church building into a urinal. The reason is because it is like a closet and men literally need to straddle...

I am installing a heater/exhaust fan in my bathroom and wanted to use a timer for both of these.

I only saw these leviton 6560M-W...

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I had this breaker box installed about one year ago, and the inspector looked at it so i know i passed the inspection. I notice that there were 3 12ga coming in a 3/4" opening with...

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Are there any regulations regarding how many NM cables I can put in the the knockout holes (of course with a clamp) in my breaker box. I noticed there are three 12 gauge in one hole, and...

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But the reason why i changed it out was because the long piece of the pvc was coming off the wall too much, makes my framing very difficult. I understand if i cut the short piece a little...

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I changed the galvanized steel vent pipe to PVC, because it was going to be in the way of my new basement wall. It needed to be shifted over by about 1.5 inches towards the wall. Long...

From the Hot water heater, there is a 3/4" pipe that latter got reduced to a 1/2" pipe, could i reverse it back to a 3/4" or do i need to take out the 1/2" portion and run the 3/4 to the bathroom?
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I have 2 bathrooms the main one in the 1st floor and a 2nd in the basement.
I am trying to figure out how to run my supply lines.

I have a 3/4" water main coming in the house and 3/4"...

My basement currently have 2x4's framed around. I just stripped off the the old wood paneling and noticed some efflorescence and some damp/wet areas on the wall. Nothing pooling or substantial.
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Wanna ask for some ideas, when you install the outlet, do people just leave the romex cable exposed in the base cabinets or do they use some sort of conduit?
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my countertop is granite, I prefer not have an outlet on the counter top.

But is having an outlet every 4' in the kitchen code? which i why you brought that up?

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I was told my kitchen peninsula needed an outlet to be up to code.

I am not sure where to put the outlet? There are 3 sides,
side 1: faces the kitchen are
side 2: faces the walk...

So my plumber had to come to the house for something else and i asked him about the toilet, It was not as bad as I thought, esp after taking the pics, the flange was not 1 inch off the floor, sabout...

Thanks for all the replies, I will try and take a pic of it with a ruler as a guide.

I won't be at my house for about a day or 2 so I will post them up in a couple of days.

A local plumbing...

SoI refinished my entire bathroom,

I figured I would leave the floor as that was the only thing i would not touch (well i did regrout the floor)

I pulled up the old toilet and figured I can...

Ok so this is really frustrating, my bathroom is essentially all tiled up, however i decided to keep the original floor - not looking at the toilet area at all. Now that i am ready to install the...

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I have 12/2 romex cable coming into a metal electrical box, I was wondering if I need to ground the metal box?

If so, should i use 12 gauge to ground the box (or any gauge wire) and do...

Anybody knows If I want to wire a range hood (not a microwave hood), where it can be tapped from? OR do i need to run a separate wire? The power that is near the range hood is (1 of 2 small...

yeah i guess i can do that, actually that was my original thought, but i was trying to be creative with less cables going into the switch box. Your way would have had

(1) 14/2 From power to a 4...

Can someone confirm if this is correct sequence of wiring

14/2 cable (power source) into light fixture 1

14/3 From light fixture to a 4 gang switch box

In that switch box will be a switch...

Anybody has tips of installing a CI tub in an alcove, i am not looking fwd to lift that heavy thing. DO people use pulleys? How the do you get the tub into those tight quaters?

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So i used the Remgrit and it worked nicely,

The only drawback i had was that I used new construction Halo 6" and my joists were not evenly spaced, so i had to run out and buy some old...