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Cool beans. I had thought about suggesting that, but was unsure about burying a threaded fitting,

No. If the toilet has been flushing okay and is now suddenly acting up, either it is not sending water into the bowl fast enough or the flush has no place to go. Try pouring a two-gallon pail of...

I sometimes wonder whether all of this will ever end, but I thank you!

I have been wearing thick, glass trifocals for many years, but yesterday I got my new thick, plastic single-vision lenses for...

Think of a straw that is full of water and you have your finger covering the top. Until you remove your finger and allow the straw to vent, the water cannot go anywhere. Having tape around a gap in...

90 is comfortable for me, and here is what I have done:

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That hose was fairly warm before I began sending the water through it, and now it is much cooler. Beginning water temperature was...

My repaired eye is coming along slowly, and yesterday a doc ordered some new glasses for me that will bring that eye from 20/400 to 20/80 (and my other eye up to 20/40). The cataract I had been told...

Yesterday I saw a documentary showing how that helped make escape from Alcatraz a bit easier! In a labratory test, the concrete failed at about 850 PSI (rather than the typical 5000 PSI), and the...

If the toilet is being flushed after every use, my guess would be that someone has poor aim.

I doubt there are any more, and even the first two must be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, there are some things I cannot get without going to a specialty house, but now I finally live near one...

I once had a situation like yours, and that is what I would suggest unless your septic tank is too small to handle the additional load. In my own case several years ago, I only had an 800-gallon...

I have never used primer, but maybe it is not a good substitute for cleaner. Also, be sure to de-burr the ends of the pipe so they do not push all the cement into the hub...and then be sure to let...

I think the mulch (straw) being crushed flat would render it ineffective, but I might be wrong about that. I have occasionally thought about rigid styrofoam under my pool, and that is what I once...

For myself, that could depend upon where it is. The chance of it ever coming apart is pretty slim, but drain hubs (fittings) tend to be short and I would likely fix it if it were inside my house and...

As you might already know, you want your incoming line to feed your outside spigot/s before your water gets to the softener, then your water heater and everything else following the softener. To...

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How does your water heater happen to be "on a 'shelf' about 12 feet in the air", and are all your plumbing lines up there also? A picture or two could be helpful here, and what do you have...

The spot you have marked might be the lowest part that froze, but everything above that would have frozen before that even though it might have thawed before you began digging down to the part that...

Your situation *might* be an honest error in sorting all the inlets and outlets, or maybe the contractor had a helper who did not understand them do the actual connections and that is just where the...

It appears you also have solar connections at the bottom...
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...and I would assume your top connections are teed to those on the inside, and all of that would indicate a heat exchanger in the...

If the cold line coming to the water heater is at least 1/2", you should able to add tees and elbows or whatever and bring cold and hot water down to your new sink without robbing all the flow to the...

It looks to me like the pump and check valve are in correct orientation with each other (or you would be getting no solar heat at all), but that the contractor has the flow running backwards through...

With the exception of your A/C backup, my wife and I are now doing all of that with a 125A Square-D QO panel after replacing our old 60A fuse panel and a couple of later-added sub-panels (A/C and...

The OP had been asking about amperage, not on/off, but this is the first I have heard about Smart Meters being able to disrupt service.

Has anyone learned to trip them with a garage door opener?!

I am curious about why you call that an injustice. Who or what are you saying is not being treated fairly or rightly there? Until we upgraded our panel some time ago, we had 200A service coming to...

I have never seen that kind of thing done, but I believe that is what Jim is addressing. If you still only have 60A wire coming from the pole, you cannot use that 60A service to feed a 200A panel.
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Be sure to get some pictures!