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Having sold water heaters for many years at a major retailer, here are some facts that most people gets wrong.

1) It is not a "hot water heater", it is a water heater (it makes hot water).

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A quick A/C motor lesson. Motors are an inductive load, not a resistive load such as a light bulb. That means that the magnetic field that crosses the commutator is what causes the resistance. The...

LLigetfa is probably right, the pump is very close to failure. You didn't mention how old the pump is and without a generator, what is your line voltage? The higher the voltage the less current a...

If this just happened this past week I say it is very high humidity. It looked like you got some weather from post tropical storm ISAAC and it did bring up more humidity then a typical humid day in...

I work at a church in Wellington, Fl (Palm Beach County and very sandy soil) and I needed to install (bury) a gas pipe from the building to an outdoor patio area (about 40 feet). I do have someone...

Only in the Keys are houses required to be on stilts and maybe some areas around the swamps and preserves, but nearly all homes in the state are on slabs. ISAAC dumped 12 plus inches (Palm Beach...

Hi Danny, I lived and worked in the Chicago area from 1980-1987. For most of that time period a huge underground tunnel was built (under Cook County and miles long). I think it was called the deep...

Well I'm not a plumber but you better get this checked out. On your drawing the W/C on the left and shower drain I believe is wrong. You show the shower drain on top of the w/c vent. You do show a...

You mentioned your using 1/2 and 3/4 then later on 4" pipe? if your using 4" copper waste lines then you'll need an acetylene torch for the 4". Copper is the second best conductor of electricity and...

Since this is a powder room and there is plywood, I assume under the floor there is a basement or crawl space. I would cut out the connection somewhere under the floor and replace it after the tile...

Hi HJ.

This is that house I have in the Orlando Fl area in unincorporated Orange County. Not every home has one, maybe the others were buried but I think it might have been a temporary vent to the...

This home was purchased seven months ago and I've been asked a dozen times, what is that pipe for? The front porch and the sidewalk is only about six feet from each other. The water and waste sewer...

Here is the update on this project and buy the pictures you can see that my wife couldn't wait to get things put away and she filled up the cabinet before I could get some pictures. The sink...

It does look like a galvanized pipe and it never should be used for any kind of grounding. There is just too much resistance to earth ground. You're in San Francisco, CA and perhaps the building code...

If you replaced the floor joist the sub floor should be flush against the joist, not shimmed up and the floor leveled differently. The only thing that look's OK is the wiring. You better get a GC...

It's a bit confusing of your problem and I think your saying that the toilet doesn't flush every time and at times it will. Do you hear any gurgling from the sink drain when the toilet is flushed? My...

Hi hj

In Florida everything is stucco and it covers just about everything. Most windows are aluminum and it the stucco right up to it with no room for caulking. The doors, even with wood frames...

Thanks hj.

I wish I could dry fit the sink but the home is 170 miles away and the fabricator has the sink. It seems that every manufacturer for under mounts all have slightly different cutout...

Here is my first treat on this and no one mentioned to offset it. The first layout was for a double bowl sink with a double sanitary tee that every one chastised. I was originally was putting in a...

In my south Florida home built in 1990, done in all copper, I had a sillcock in a bad location. It was behind the A/C units. When it gutted my bathroom for a remodeling, there it was right behind the...

The first picture is upside down and it is coming out of a wall of an island.

I took in all of your suggestions and I made the change to the waste line from a double to a single. The problem is I must use an AAV to vent and this makes the situation tight. The drain is about...

I took all of your recommendations and here it is. I tee'd off inside the wall for the dishwasher hot water line instead of the silly way it was done.

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OATEY states that the vent needs to be at least 4" above the waste line (that is measured from the top of the pipe). HD sells them in there stores and I looked at one today. ...

I think I found my answer at the Oatey web site. I know that this is for a bathroom sink at 1 1/4".
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