plumbing

Everyone, I'm obviously new here. :) My wife cleaned out her closet today for us to paint her bathroom / walk in closet, and we noticed water damage. See pics below... the one alarming photo is the floor down at the corner of the baseboards, which is directly behind the shower/bath. There's...

Hi there, I'm new to this thread and a first time home buyer. We're redoing our bathroom and found that our rough-in will be about 11.0" - 11.25" from our finished wall (we'll have tile on the wall). Our contractor is telling us that we'd need to find a 10" toilet or a 12" toilet that will fit...

Hello, and thank you in advance for any help. I did read through other threads before posting, but didn't find anything related to my issue. After a long bout of rain a few weeks ago, I noticed my toilet bubbling when doing a load of laundry. The toilet bubbled a bit every time the washer...

I am trying to install a water softer in the garage next to the main water shutoff. There is only a clean out plug on one of the walls. I wonder whether I can extend the clean out plug with a wye, and then add another wye to connect to a vent and a p-trap. The following diagram illustrates the...

Hi, I am Christopher Lung. I was just wondering what a vent through roof is. Can anyone tell me, please? It is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hey guys, so I just bought a house and plan on finishing the basement. I've built framing for a bathroom, taking into consideration the space needed for a toilet but the shower drain is spaced out approximately 4-6 inches further from the wall than the toilet drain line. (Picture included) Would...

New to the forum and looking for help and advice! Thanks in advance When running my dishwasher, it would often and most times leave water behind in the bottom. It would take hours if not a whole day for that few inches of water to go away. I proceeded to examine and found that my drain pipe...

Background: The previous owner of the house ran pipes for an addition through the attic of the garage. The first 3 years we lived there, we had only problems with freezing in extreme temperatures as our heat pump was up there, which apparently generated sufficient heat to keep anything from...

New to plumbing work, but incredibly interested in anything DIY. Only problem right now is money, but I know it's cheaper to fix things myself, rather than pay a professional to do something I could learn to do myself...that being said, here is my problem: We had our pipes snaked a few weeks...

Please help me. What causes a toilet lid to bang into the tank when someone sits down? I just moved into a house and decided to change the toilet seats. It is a Toto Elongated Drake model ST743S or ST48S (hard to tell). I have tried several soft close and as soon as anyone sits down, the lid...

Hi, this is my first post, so thanks in advance for any help. I was walking along the outside of the house today, and noticed that there is a hole in the wall leaking water at a pretty constant pace, straight onto one of my bushes. This hole lies directly under the kitchen sink on the interior...

Can anyone identify brand & model of this faucet? No markings on the hardware anywhere. Installed in 2003 by previous homeowner. Need new valve stems. Thanks, Matt

As the title indicates, our cold water from ALL faucets starts out cold and within 20-30 seconds turns luke warm. This phenomenon started a month or so ago after a visit from a plumber. The plumber did the following: 1) Replaced a kitchen faucet with a Moen single handle 2) Replaced our washing...

So, I'm doing a leach field repair. The repair itself seems easy, but I've never seen a system like this before, and I'd like to understand it. If you look in the picture, that white pipe to the right is 4" perforated PVC coming from the septic tank. And then it goes back to perforated PVC on...

Well I don't know much about toilets but I know something is wrong. I have a Korky 528 fill valve and a overflow tube that isn't the right height. I don't know what to do in order to cut it or what to do about the fill valve. It makes a hissing sound and at random times of the day it will over...

Hi guys I am getting ready to run all new plumbing in a rental home I am building. My well guy has 1-1/4" poly coming into my utility room. The home is a single story just under 2,500 square feet. The plumbing is simple 2 full baths, 1 half bath, 1 kitchen, and a laundry room and the longest run...

Hey guys Ive been thinking of adding a shower in my basement bathroom. I have a toilet coming right off the main 4" drain. The 4" IRON comes out of the floor into 3" PVC and goes up to the roof. Im thinking of replacing the old iron toilet elbow with a new PVC 3"x3"x2" and running with 2" PVC to...

We recently discovered that our expansion tank had pinhole leaks so we turn the water off to it and unplugged the water heater. The problem is my husband had shoulder surgery and he cant work. He cant do anything on his own right now and our finances are reeeeally bad so buying even a new...

What is this? The straight pipe from my kitchen sink is splitting, you can see a little split coming out of the tape in the pic below. currently i have plumbers putty and silicone tape hold it together for a quick fix. I am at a lose though for this flange / cap part, is this just a...

Hello, I live on the 2nd floor of an 11 story condo. The building is about 12 years old and the hot/cold pipes under my kitchen sink are copper. Lately, whenever one of my neighbours runs their faucet, I hear a very loud gushing sound under my kitchen sink/ from the pipes; when I touch the...