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i have well water, but this is a glycol system as it goes outside. i checked the ph and it looks like 7.0, maybe 7.5. one more piece of info. i took the insulation off these pipes which tends to make the leaks look bigger as the glycol was retained by the insulation

in about 2008, i got alot of advice here about setting up a solar hot water (via evacuated tubes) array to share a boiler loop. Only one system runs at a time and I have the two systems set up to prevent boiler shock. This has worked flawless for 14 years. But today I noticed that several of...

re the frost issue. we have that problem here. I have an 1 1/2" pvc vent line and was going to increase it just like you are thinking about. The guy at home depot said try painting it black first. I gave it a try. at 35 below, we did not get that frost closure. I sure was surprised it...

in my basement we have a kohler toilet, and it came with the house, probably decades old. it never has any mineral deposit. directly above it on the main floor we have a relatively new one from a box store. it always has mineral deposits it in and we are constantly cleaning it. we do not have...

the room is 11'x12'. in this room, there is a baseboard radiator unit the entire length of the exterior wall,or 11' It is the side i want to take out a bay window and 12' the other way. it is open to a kitchen along the 12' side, and open to a living room along the other 11' side. so there...

the wall with the existing radiator is about 9' long. The door unit I am looking at is about 6'. I did not know about a double pass unit. Researching my options, i also did not know there were wall hanging radiators in many sizes. Right now i am thinking a 12" wide unit on each side of the...

thanks for all the help you've provided me over the years. I am planning to take out a bay window and put in a french door. I'll lose about 6' of existing base radiator in the process. what's the best way to recover this amount of heat? Do i reroute copper radiator piping along 6' of...

thanks alot. i did not know about AAV's, and that's surely the way I'll go.

i want to move the washer from the basement to the garage. the new location will be about 10' away from the existing vent. can i just connect the new washer vent to the old one (that goes through the roof) via a horizontal piece in the attic? thanks .

no evidence of that. pipes have no joints. i'm almost glad to hear that this does not seem common. a few years ago, i installed a temp control valve at the water heater output related to a solar thermal project . Since I already have that temp control on my hot water, my plan is to totally...

yes, its t'd into hot, and it only goes to the kitchen sink after the T.

while checking out a slow leak in a cold water line, i found that there was a 1/2" copper cold water line T'd into a 1/2" hot water line that runs to my kitchen sink. There was also an in line gate valve to control this cold water flow (which no longer works). I am guessing this was a method...