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I think this is an easy one. Does the typical residential submersible pump have a check valve built into it? I have heard that this is so, but then I always see another one just before the pressure...

I am dealing with a low-yield well and storage tank situation. Dole valves keep coming up in the discussion. Can anyone say why a Dole valve is better than a gate valve? Seems like with a gate...

Here's my nice new Hansgrohe shower valve. Notice the ugly gap between the back of the handle and the escutcheon. Anyone deal with this problem? I'm trading e-mails with Hansgrohe but it's uphill...

Cacherchick, I thought tubs and shower pans were considered rough plumbing, since they go in before sheetrock.

For a DVW pressure test, how do you plug the tub? It's not practical to plug the drain and overflow, with those little cross bars in there, and I can't turn the trap to plug it caue it's connected...

The inner drain, with the flange showing in the sink, was stainless. The outer cup underneath was galvanized.

Consumer Reports? They might tell you which brass faucet is safest when crashing into an SUV, is all.

Success! I sawzalled through the cup and drain outlet, then pealed the residual cup metal off. I don't think it would have come off otherwise. The two parts were all corroded together, maybe from...

Yes...I think so...that black gasket would go below the sink of course. That's the one I'm heat gunning and digging at with a screwdriver. It's so petrified that when I dig in I'm bending the lip...

Thanks Redwood. I'll try that. What's that cup for anyway? It appears to be attached only to the sink, not the drain outlet. Maybe just something for the spud nut to cinch against?

I have a 50+ year old stainless drainboard with integral stainless double sinks. It has never had a garbage disposal but I want to add one. I must remove the old drain ring from the left-hand sink...

There's a brass drain that takes up less space than the black ABS one, so you won't have to chip out so much concrete. I found that out when my shower pan drain ended up next to an I-joist. I...

Simpson makes bolts you just screw in a drilled hole. They are called "Titen" bolts. There's the epoxy ones, but have you seen the price of the epoxy? :O

[. If you have either a sewage ejector pump or a macerating toilet, the septic tank and leachfield must be increased in size by 50%. ]

Good thing leach fields are already overdesigned by about...

I'm planning on putting in a Kohler cast iron shower pan, because the shower gets used all the time and any plastic type pan eventually gets beat up.

Have you considered 3/8" pex for individual hot feeds from a manifold to decrease the hot water wait time and waste? Do a litte math. 3/8" pex takes about half the time to deliver hot water...

Thanks garrydaplumber, but this is the stub-up in the wall. I need to come up to a drop ear, then out to an angle stop. So I'm still looking for that 1/2" pvc/cpvc adapter.

HJ, the joints under...

HJ, if not pvc under the slab, then what? There are connections, but all glued pvc. What is the huge headache? The pvc is buried in rock under the slab.

Jimbo, the hot is in pex.

I stubbed 1/2" PVC cold water pipes up through my slab. Now everyone says I can't run PVC cold water in the house, even though they think it's OK in Florida, Illinois, and maybe other states. I'm...

Would all this trouble with thin wall brass fittings be a good reason to use sharkbites instead? They are pretty thick and massive. I've never heard of a problem with them. I haven't used them but...

As a dedicated DYI'er (and engineer, God help me) I have also run into the "are you a contractor"/"who are you with" attitude. But at the orange big box, and blue big box, no such attitude. They...

I'm remodeling an older home in California with no central air, so there will be two gravity-flow natural gas wall furnaces with Type B venting up through the top plate and roof. Question is, how...

Kohler makes a couple of cast iron ones. Also check with your local cultured marble/cultured onyx manufacturer. Here is Sacramento, the make either one to that size and other sizes also.

As to the spaghetti look, seems like this is a matter of intelligent placement and orientation of manifold and routing of pex tubing to make it look nice. Anything can be made ugly by carelessness.

I wait about 50 seconds for hot water in my house plumbed with a "proper" copper, trunk-and-branch system. No wonder, it has to empty all that 3/4 and 1/2 inch line, then heat up the copper. THEN...