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Thanks, Jim. Darn. Wishful thinking that it would be something that simple. Yes, it's a gate valve and it no longer stops cold from coming through into the water heater. I have to turn off the water main valve inside the house when I drain the water heater or it just keeps on filling up. I'll...

Can a broken or non-functional cold water shutoff on a water heater cause crossover/cross connection symptoms? I haven't had time to repair it yet, but when I get to it, I'll find out and post results here. But does anyone have actual experience with this? Thanks! jojo

Yeah, darn. I figured it was something like that, but I couldn't imagine how--each line goes directly from one or the other source (original hot and cold stubs), straight to the valve. It's only about 7 feet. Maybe putting in the tub filler was the problem. If I take it out or shut it down, I'll...

Hi, Folks: Here's a Saturday Night Mystery for you all: Four years ago, there was a functioning (but not well constructed and unacceptable for aesthetic reasons) shower, toilet, and sink in a small bathroom in the basement of the house I bought. The water pressure was pretty awesome, actually...

Hi, yes, I am trying to avoid buying expensive new trim by keeping the laundry faucet as my tub filler. But I want to keep the shower as well and wonder if there's a more streamlined way of doing it besides two separate hot/cold supply lines, one running to the shower and one running to the tub...

Hi, folks: I'm looking to replace a weird valve setup. The previous homeowner was the king of jerry rigging (I call him Jerry). It has been scary at times, but I have to give him credit for creativity. The setup is this: A very nice tub faucet that is actually a laundry sink faucet with a...

I plugged in the lamp, and it did not work. Tried a different, new halogen bulb. Also did not work. After a short interlude with my multimeter, I discovered that the transformer is not working. It's easier, safer, faster, and cheaper to fit a ready-made swag light kit to the glass shade that I...

You are right! This is a coaxial cable--I just looked it up and found something about it online. It seems weird to hook up the shield, but I will give it a go. That makes sense--there were two of those squeeze-type splice connector wire nuts in the kit, and the housing/shield was originally...

Here are some photos of what I'm talking about--a 120v to 12v little transformer, only for halogen lamps. It was glued inside the lamp housing. The pendant light was originally hardwired. Both red wires were connected to something originally, but I can't figure out what! The white/black wires...

>>>Yeah, that's what I thought. No, I'm afraid there's no box anywhere nearby. If I wanted to terminate in a box, I'd have to carve up the ceiling. It's in a cold, lonely, empty corner of a 2nd floor room. There is a plug about 12 feet away, though, and I have this nice leftover pendant light. I...

>>>Yes! This is exactly what I thought. But I promise you, the light fixture (a halogen pendant light with a single 12v, 35w GY6 bulb in it) has only a single wire leading to it. And I don't mean a single split wire, like a lamp cord has, but a single WIRE. I can take a picture and post it...

Hi, Everyone: New poster here. I didn't see anything else that deals with my problem specifically, so here I am posting a NEW THREAD. I got a single hardwired halogen mini-pendant, and I'd like to wire it as a plug-in because I want to hang it in a dark corner with no hardwired boxes, and no...