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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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...