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No worries Dave, if not for your advice here I might still be scratching my head as to what needs to be done, and at worst may have gone on to damage the faucet. Thanks again!

Kohler was able to identify the 30 yr old fixtures during my first call, just by seeing a picture of it and emailed me a blow up parts diagram. I had misunderstood what Dave meant by the disk on the cold water knob, I had thought the handle was all one solid piece. After understanding it all...

Thanks for this advice. I think I will contact Kohler per your suggestion. Maybe they will at least be able to confirm how the caps come off.

I'm think you're right that it's a Kohler, but not 100% sure- I'm not physically at its location right now so I can't yet verify. I had been wondering if it unscrews myself. If the disk can be removed from the handle, do you have a recommendation for how to find out whether it should be...

Should I be able to pull the knob off in order to access the faucet internals, or are there designs where the knob is permanently mounted on the fixture?

This tub was installed about 30 years ago. About a month ago, the cold faucet became very hard to turn. Not sure if there's a cartridge inside it that needs to be replaced, but I haven't figured out how to remove it. There is no access through a panel or anything, it's all tile around it. No...

I went with the coupling / polyethelene p-trap solution. It was a pain to cut the existing wall pipe short due to the small space it was in. The cut wasn't silky smooth, but other than a small crimp at the end, it looked smooth enough. I didn't end up using the 1 1/2" trap adapter because it...

Tom, when you say I could by a fitting trap adapter, do you mean that it's not necessary, but would make it easier to change out a trap in the future, as opposed to putting the trap PVC straight into the coupling?

Thanks again. Soldering a copper adapter sounds like a better permanent solution, and I'm sure is a routine plumbing task, but I haven't done it before. It's probably worth pulling up my big boy boots, preparing properly and trying it though, because I'll have confidence to do it again in the...

Thanks. PVC trap adapters are also readily available at my nearest big box store. Is it possible to use of these with the copper tube coming from the wall? It's in a pretty tight area, would prefer to avoid soldering if possible due to the cramped space it's in if the result will work just...

The p-trap is 1 1/2"

Thanks for all the advice. I haven't done anything with it yet, which is probably a good thing. For the slip nut coupling solution- I haven't used one of these before. Is the nut designed to fit over the flanged part of the wall arm before tightening, or does the pipe need to be cut shorter...

Thanks for your adivce . I suppose I will have to get a plumber, but would like to look into the other option you suggested first. I've used jam nuts on threaded rod before, but I wasn't aware they could be used for 1 1/2" pipe. I searched for that type of use online but couldn't find...

So the other day I clumsily dropped something down our laundry room sink. I thought no biggie, I'll just remove the trap and dump it out. Removed the nuts from the p-trap which were hard to turn because it's 30 yrs old with some corrosion. To my chagrin, the thing I dropped wasn't there, but...

Until you mentioned backflow, I would never have thought of it as a concern, thanks for pointing that out.

I do a lot of gardening. At our new home, for some reason the sill cock I need to use for my garden hose was installed in an area just off the side of our back deck, just out of arms reach from the deck. It is only accessible by crawling over large rocks with thick ground cover plants, very...

In our new home, it looks like the shut off valve for one of the hose bibs outside is under the master bedroom sink on the 2nd floor, coming off the sink's cold water line. When I tried opening it (it had been closed) it immediately began leaking at the valve. Closing it stopped the leaking...

My loop under the sink is attached to the bottom of the counter top, so I should be good on that part. As to my last post about the high loop on the side of the dishwasher, I noticed last night under the insulation blanket that there is a built in high loop on its side, the bottom of which the...

Just noticed now the caption on your pic showing that the high loop is too low (I should be ok in that regard), but still curious about whether I need a high loop on the dishwasher if the length won't quite accommodate it that high.

Thanks much for your detailed advice Kultulz. The hose that came with the dishwasher was way too short to make the connection to the drain, so I ordered the longer version (I think 8 feet, which arrived yesterday. I ran it through the cabinets, and my under-the-sink picture looks almost...