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Where I’m at, suppliers are really pushing stainless steel in larger volumes now. For the last couple of years stainless was available but brass was still king. Now you’re lucky to find everything you want in brass and stainless is taken over. The price has stainless has come down, so not much...

I’m taking on a new build that has gone a little haywire. A switch up from ICF footings and foundation to standard concrete walls on footings designed for ICF blocks have rendered the blueprints I was given useless as the measurements will now all be off. From what I can tell, an 8” concrete...

Can anyone supply a basic diagram of a cistern fed by a well?

I need a new diverter for this faucet but I can’t identify the brand. Only identifying marking is Neoperl on the aerator but as far as I know, all they make is the aerator. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Traced out a leak today. I’ve determined the leak was coming through the caulking where the tub meets the tiled wall. This particular tub has so flange so anything that gets under there just runs into the wall cavity. Water pools pretty hard in this corner and there’s a good size gap between...

I do a lot of work in an area with very low yielding wells. Storage systems are common. My boss is a very good old school plumber and claims to specialize in pumps and well systems. I’ve always just installed things to his design. So in the last couple months, different water treatment...

I seek advice from fellow professionals regarding an issue I’ve encountered with an indirect hot water heater. I performed a diagnosis on Friday evening and found that the aquastat was not responsive and was running wild creating sky high water temperatures. Due to the time, I would not be...

I’ve moved this from another section to here to hopefully lay more eyes on the problem. Someone please delete the other thread in Showers and Tubs, I cannot figure out how Ok, so I got a toughie on my hands and hoping someone has a suggestion, because I’m stumped. I have a customer with a...

Ok, so I got a toughie on my hands and hoping someone has a suggestion, because I’m stumped. I have a customer with a shower stall in a basement, on concrete. The shower drain has become loose. It’s been leaking for some time and has created extreme mould issues. Anyway, the person who...

Well....the older i get, and the longer I do service work, the less likely I am to wanna do things the hard way. It seems like now more than ever I’m encountering waves of broken tub strainers. No big deal, i peel them out with my saw blade. But it’s tedius. It’s about time I just say F it...

You’z guys always help me with these. I came across a cartridge in a kitchen faucet I couldn’t identify. The customer has opted to buy a new faucet but I want to identify this one to satisfy my own curiosity. Thanks!

lookin for some more help fellas. At the end of my day Friday a customer asked “since I was there” to have a look at her tub faucet that’s dripping. The handles were pretty stuck on the cartridge, and I didn’t exactly have time to mess with it and I knew I didn’t have the parts on my truck...

I came across another odd faucet the other day. Having trouble identifying it. It’s definately not something common around my area. It’s from the 1980s. My guess is that it’s Valley but I can’t get compatible pictures online to confirm. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I installed a set of Hansgrohe wall mounted faucets today. It came with a crosscut nipple for the water supply. It doesn't thread like a regular nipple, it's got a lot of bite when you thread it in. Nowhere in the instructions did it mention teflon or thread sealant, and it's my first experience...

Ok, time for me to take a lesson from water treatment specialists. I have worked in thousands of homes with water treatment equipment. I do not service them. I do not know how to service them, it's not part of my job here. I know enough to work around them, or when to tell the customer they...

So, come the spring we are going to over haul our living room. One of the things that bugs my wife is the granite (I think it's granite) base to our fireplace insert. It's basically a 6'x2'x3"slab. The colour doesn't much bother me, but of all things I wanna do to the place, this seems to be...

About 6 months ago, I installed a 40 gallon electric hot water tank for a customer. Just a generic, hardware store tank he bought. For the past couple of months, they have been saying when they get up in the morning and open the hot taps, there is a burst of air and the water is very cloudy...

Hello gents. As we all know. Some of the jobs we get into are not ideal. They don't go smooth, somebody jumps the gun and puts stuff in our way and we have the frustrating task of working around other people's mistakes. So, this all starts with a tub. Long story short, I did the plumbing...

My 6" well casing sticks about 16" above ground in the middle of my lawn. At first I didn't mind, but now I think I would like to dress it up a little bit. I've been trying to think of something to build to go over it. Just something small that I can move myself for when I need to access the...

We have all seen them. Harvest gold sinks...avocado toilets...sky blue tubs..you know what I'm talking about. My aunt has a bathroom that's all silver American Standard fixtures and jacuzzi. I recently installed a Gerber Viper Ergo-height toilet in another bathroom in her house, and she loves...