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I’m the last house on a downhill street and since they repaved the street, I get water into the corner of my basement, sometimes actually flowing. I know I need a sump pump, but inside, after the water has already entered my house or right out side? Outside would mean I’m pumping the whole...

Toilet on a platform above a flush up toilet. Tile is starting to crack and give way. The pictures above are what I found, then with new framing and dura-rock cement board, and then finished job.

Do any of you old-timers remember setting a toilet in a bed of plaster of Paris?

ok, after 35 years of getting our water from the New York City Aquaduct, my town is now supplying water from a newly dug well and we were advised to get a water softener. So how do I proceed? So many types of softeners and differences in hardness. Where do I begin? Thank you.

Is it “better late than never” to flush sediment etc. out of a water heater. It’s been 9 years. Should I just forget about it now? And yes.... I am a major procrastinator.

Anybody on here old enough to remember using 3/8” brass pipe as basin risers along with plumbing wick? I mean when there were no other options.

I am no longer in the trade, and retired before the advent of Pex. I was wondering, given the ease of using Pex, does it threaten, to some degree, the trade? (being that joe shmo can make the connections) Just curious.