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When we bought our house in 1970, the Moen single handle kitchen faucet had an adjustment procedure that reduced the 'end play' or 'slack' in the faucet handle motion. We remodeled in 2010 and I...

Just for the sake of completeness, I was doing an inventory of fittings and found the missing pipe dope in the same drawer with them.

http://www.laco.com/prod/118/slic-tite-paste-with-ptfe.aspx
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As I began assembling parts this morning, I was frustrated because the mold line on the short nipples I taped and inserted was clearly displaced, meaning that there were two sets of threads, offset...

Thank you HJ and Jimbo for your responses. Thanks, too, for pointing me to the PPFA website. I took the liberty of searching it using Google and found 3 hits, all of which said, in essence, Teflon...

For some reason, perhaps length, this part of my post refused to show in the Preview and in the post above. I had placed it in the middle of my original message just after the first question:


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I decided this morning that I needed a refresher on just how much I should tighten threaded PVC joints. My first hit suggested that there was a whole lot more that I, and my trusted plumbing supply...

Thank you, everybody, for all your input.

Today I picked up the aluminum insert part of a sleeve puller. I plan to use it with my old Sears & Roebuck gear and pulley puller. I trust that it will...

Just to be clear, I have such an adapter. I have no problem with replacing the hose bibb with a 1/2" FIP equivalent. The problem is that the thread on the installed compression nut is different from...

I thank everyone for their comments thus far.

I did a bit more searching and found a Wikipedia entry on compression fittings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_fitting

It ends with...

I recently had three new hose bib lines installed during a remodel. The plumber elected to use compression fittings to attach the hose bibs to 1/2" rigid copper lines. The male thread on the hose bib...

We are in the process of having a ~6' x 6' accessible, curbless wet room shower/powder room installed. The installation is on a concrete slab floor, at grade. The wet room area was poured 2" below...

Thanks to all for participating.

I've gathered the following:

1) It takes a big supply line to provide enough water to allow a 'Sloan' or vacuum breaker flush valve to flush a toilet.

2) By...

I have a bathroom where space considerations suggest that it would be more practical to do away with the flush tank on the toilet altogether.

Does a vacuum breaker flush valve deliver enough...

This is a point of clarification. Is the reason that vacuum breaker flush devices (the kind used in public restrooms) are not used in household bathrooms is that they must be fed via at least a 1"...

I have learned the hard way that there are at least two incompatible 2-pin CFL base configurations for use in 9 Watt fixtures. Are there even more?

I have a set of 9 Watt, 2-pin garage/driveway...

The deal included an ugly, not very well made vanity, a Allia bow-front porcelain sink, and the classic Grohe wide spread faucet set for $20. I moved the sink one too many times and dropped it a few...

I am between San Francisco and San Jose on the Peninsula, so my meter box and shutoff are only 1 foot down.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned that abomination gate valve that was standard issue as a...

BAPlumber, thanks for the suggestion.

Grohe has a nice international language 'picture manual' on their website. Tech support kindly sent me a copy (without comment) in reply to an inquiry. I...

I will soon be installing some nice Grohe Classic Wideset Faucet with TDL Handles I recovered from a garage sale sink, on a new Kohler cast iron sink. I know that the classic installation product for...