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I‘m trying to help, my sister with her townhouse. Before he passed, her husband replaced al of the lavatory faucets with Moen, Adler units. Here is where the confusion begins: If I run the faucets in the master bath until they get hot, the flow shuts off. Same units in the hall and...

I’m trying to design a small retirement home for my sister. She is 77 and using a walker. Her husband who is 69, has cancer, and has been given 2 to 24-months to live, and she is getting to the point where she needs help. So, i want to design an ADA bathroom while keeping the footprint...

I have a house made in 1971-72. It has “Desert Rose”, aka-pink Koehler Wall Mount Toilets, which take a bit over 4-gallons per flush. (The tanks are huge, so I flushed one, and then poured gallon jugs of water in until the tank filled to half an inch below the overflow. It took 4-gallons and...

I’m starting a new thread because I don’t want to steal the one on the gate valve.. The only time I would add a gate valve to anything is for flow control, with ball valves used for shutof. Gate valves can get jammed in place due to the pressure pushing them on to the seat. A ball valve has...

I need to change some buildings from Single Family Residence, to Bunkhouse Space for Seasonal Employees. The water heaters are 50-gallon units, and work fine for a family. They run out of water when 8 to 10 seasonal employees come back from a 10-day hitch in the wilderness and all want...

Ok, Corrosion class was forty years ago. Does anyone know why some waters dissolve the zinc out of brass and otehr copper alloys, and some don’t. I manage forty or so, very small water systems. On some systems the bronze/brass fittings for pex lines get buggy and fail. On others they do...

I have two early 1970s Koehler, wall hung residential toilets, which are 4-gallons per flush. I double checked teh volume by pouring in water from the sink using a pitcher with markings on it. 4-gallons, plus a little over a pint to fill from dry. 4-gallons to refill after a flush. They are...

I am getting ready to specify components for a sewer system rebuild at a Forest Service Facility. The system has two lift stations, which both lift the sewage up about 120-feet, and horizontally run about 200-feet. The lower station feeds the upper one, and the upper one feeds into two...

We have a “Human Waste Disposal Site”, which has a “SCAT” machine, (think specialized commercial dish washer, with a 2-hp grinder on the discharge), to receive the wastes generated by rafters, and an RV dump, It has two lift stations, with tandem 5-hp pumps, which grind the waste, and lift it...

I have an office building which has floor drains in the locker rooms, restrooms, and shower rooms. Which are mopped daily, and I have directed the Janitorial Contractor to pour a bit of water in the floor drains everytime they mop to seal off the odor. Which works fine. We also have a...

First the background: I am trying figure out how to pump 4@1000-gallon septic tanks, in a wilderness area. They were constructed in the mid seventies, just before the compound they are on, was listed as a wilderness, and the last ting done when we could still use mechanized equipment, and have...

With the COVID restrictions there is one of the Forest Service Ranger stations which has had only one person in it a few hours a day, since last spring. The person went to check the mail, and do a bit of paper work, and used the toilet. It didn’t flush. We started investigating, and the...

My sister wants a polished copper kitchen faucet with the pull down sprayer. Does anyone know of one, which had readily available repair parts? I told her it will probably stain and discolor fairly fast, and she says she doesn’t care so long as she can make make it turn into the aged copper...

Bosch used to make tankless units which did not require an external power source, the water flow, spun a micro generator, and ignited the propane. We had two of the Bosch units freeze this winter, and need to replace them. (I have nearly thirty kids in a Ranger Station with no showers.)...

So, the fire kids who are opening bunkhouses, sent me the attached photo. The faucet is leaking. the house is circa 1968. If we had any kind of budget I’d just replace the whole unit with a new Delta. But congress didn’t give us any maintenance funds. So, I’m fixing as much as possible...

Watched an interesting video on on Matt Risinger channel on YouTube, where they pressure tested PEX to failure. Sharkbite pushons, popped off at about 250-psi. Uponor expansion fittings, stayed together until the PEX-A burst at about 750-psi. Sharkbite, crimp fittings held until the PEX-B...