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During the big freeze, despite our precautions, one bathroom faucet stopped working. It is in the middle of the house, but the line does come directly up from our unheated basement (so do all the lines, but this was the only one that had a problem.) I spent a day applying heat, not directly to...

As a current cancer patient, this makes me sad and scared. Thank you, Terry, for helping to educate and enlighten so many. My your memory always be a blessing to those who loved and cared for you.

I’m pretty sure this is a new sound. Unit is five years old.

Well, I got into the panels and found the pipe—I was able to replicate the sound by jiggling it. The cause of the sound is unclear, but I did find rodent dropping around, and the pipe descends beneath the house; that the sound seems to be more frequent at night (I thought this might be my...

There seems to be no correlation between any water usage—that's after many nights of trial-and-error...

If it is loose pipes in the wall, and I don't fasten them, am I risking damage? (I may be able to access them—there are a couple of panels in the closets, but I've never looked behind them, since they're well-fastened...)

No well. Municipal (Los Angeles) water supply...

so, we've got knocking pipes—always from what seems to be (since they're in the wall, can't be absolutely certain) the same general vicinity—the pipes that lead vertically from our downstairs bathrom (tub, sink, toilet) to our upstairs (sink, toilet). The knocks are sometimes quite loud...

Thanks, all. I solved the problem. The culprit appears to have been a malfunctioning bidet attachment. It has worked fine for years via a t-handle that attaches to the bottom of the tank in-between the fill mechanism and the main water hose. The bidet is activated by switching the T to the...

It is a 1996 model American Standard toilet. It had been running mildly without stopping for a long while, so the local hardware store recommend that I replace the flapper, which I did, with a Kenney K835-9 FlushAll. That didn't solve the problem, and the valve assembly was really old and...