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Hi guys, first time home owner and I'm in trouble!
A few nights ago, I saw I had a leak coming from my faucet on the hot water side. It was dripping down the copper pipe from the faucet, down the braided hose them the hot water was open.
I stopped using the hot water that night.
The next day, I bought a new faucet and replaced it myself. Checked for leaks, nothing happening.
The next day while my wife was doing dishes, the cold water hose started spraying water from where the cuff meets the hose.
I turned the valve under the sink off on the cold water, old style oval know that took several turns to close it, but it never actually fully stopped the water, it was at a medium speed drip.
I couldn't have that, so u shut off the main water valve.
Today, I bought a new hose, installed it, and it seemed fine, with slightly less water pressure than before, but it still ran.
When my wife saw the lack of water pressure, she asked if that was normal. I told her not really, but maybe there was a price of Teflon tape partially blocking the hole.
I shut off the main valve again, unscrewed the hose again to look, no tape.
I screwed the hose back on, turned on the main valve, and it was reduced to a drip.
I tried taking off the Teflon tape (as was a solution in a different reddit), drip.
Spun the know under the sink in both directions. Drip.
To note: my hot water still has lots of pressure, and all the other cold waters still work in other places (bathroom faucets, toilets).
I didn't know what size hose to get because there was no tag, so I got the same size as the hoses in the bathroom (they still had the tags on), but the hole for where it attaches to the faucet seems smaller than the old hose.
What do I do? Another new hose (with a bigger hole)?
Is there a break in the pipe, and my basement is flooding and I don't see it yet?
I was just changing my furnace filter and noticed a lot of corrosion around the cold water intake of my hot water heater. Model is a Bradford White and the spec label is included in the photos. There is a power vent on top. I believe this is the unit that was installed when home was built in 2014. What could possibly be going on here?
I've performed several plumbing repairs on my homes before and generally, home repair not involving heights is something I'm comfortable with. I've installed dishwashers, dryer gas lines, and garbage disposals, along with pex repairs. But if this is more of a "call a plumber to ensure nothing serious is going on", I'm comfortable with that too.
There also seems to be a very slow drip (like once per minute) at the relief valve tubing. Hot water outlet seems fine.
Flushing my water heater for the first time (woo!) and I’m trying to remove the inlet filer to be able to clean it. I’m using channel locks to loosen it, but it is not moving at all! I tried WD-40 on it too, nothing. Every video I watch has the filer loosening so easily, but mine is very stuck! I’m beginning to strip the plastic and wanted to come here for advice before I do any real damage. Why is it so stuck? What else can I try to loosen it?
I have a new dishwasher coming tomorrow that I’ll need to install, but I have to pull the old one before delivery so they can haul it away. I’d rather not kill water to the whole house while waiting for delivery, so I’m thinking about adding a cutoff valve while I wait. Then I’ll connect the new dishwasher to the cutoff.
The only problem is that there are soooo many options for these valves. Is there a standard for this that I should get?
Wow! A plumber that can clear a drain and stick to a simple quote for the basic job. Thanks "Victoria". Thoughts on this tactic? Junk mail, Gold Coast AUS.
Hello! I am in a pickle and could use some help. I started smelling sewage/musty smells in my bathroom. I decided to go under the house and investigate. Found a hole in the sewage line (see pic). I cut that out and replaced the pvc pipe. While I was under there, I also cut out the water softener drain (it was a small black tube that connects to the sewage line right by this hole. There was no ptrap or air gap on that so I added those. I also cut out a water filter that was under there, why on earth would they have done that!?) that water filter only goes to the cold side on my kitchen faucet and fridge. That cold line is still shutoff as of now.
The problem I'm having is that after doing these, my drains are all very slow to drain. Would that hole have been acting like a vent or something? Would the cold water side being shutoff affect the sewage drainage? Maybe my main sewage is clogged enough, and my drains were just dumping that water under the house instead of backing up?
Any help is appreciated!!!
Hello, I'm wondering if it is possible to connect PEX-A pipe and PEX-B pipe with a PEX-B style coupler, and using the copper ring to crimp it.
The reason why I'm asking is I'm replacing partial Poly-B pipes in my house this month (time issue), and a few months later will replace the rest. I bought 2 PEX-B to Poly-B coupling adapter, one side is for Poly-B and the other side is for PEX-B. I'm wondering if I can put PEX-A pipe on the PEX-B side of the adapter. This is a temporary connection; all the rest Poly-B will be replaced by PEX-A later.
Running into an issue on a rental property of mine. Replaced the entire sink drain and redid the p-trap (trying to do the right thing lol)
There is a leak where the PVC meets the metal wall pipe - see red arrow.
I put a shit ton of putty with the red gasket- still no luck.
Any ideas? Do I need to replace the pipe in the wall?
Toilet bumper that sits on rin of the toilet fell off and went in toilet during a flush (luckily only urine at the time sorry if TMI.)
Tried using a plumber as a suction but no luck, and can't tell if it's lodged in there. Flushed twice to see what happens and sounded normal.
I'm calling a plumber first thing in the morning.
Doe anyone have any experience or advice with this? I'm kind of freaked out that this is going to cost alot.
Long story short, my friend was trying to help unclog my kitchen sinks drain line. He couldn't wait till I bought a auger so he tried shoving a 1ft long 3/8" rubber hose to unclog.
Sure enough it fell in beyond the point of retrieval. Right past the pea trap and where you're starting to get past cabinetry in the drain pipe.
Of course this makes my clog situation much worse, but what are the odds this hose passes through the drains, or are my fears true that it will just get jammed up at a bend.
Beyond that I power drill attachment augered 25 ft, drain still clogged. Have no clue where the clog is at this point.
Overall advice please.
Previous owners had a stackable washer/dryer here that wasn’t left with the house (there are full size ones in the basement they had left for us). Turning the room this closet is in into a nursery so I need to sort this out. I’ve been pouring water every so often down the left one to fill the p trap. Can I place another sure-vent on there so I don’t have to continue doing that? This set up is how we found it.
The drain line nut is stuck. I've Applied a lot of torque , but the other lines inside the wall are at risk of breaking due to the nut not giving. Any suggestions or thoughts?
My house doesn’t have a great location to install a whole house water filter near the main. There’s some space in the garage but I’m hesitant to take up space there.
There’s a basement room with a water heater that has a lot of empty space but it’s probably 50 feet from the main, and the basement is finished, so I’ll need to open up drywall too.
Is it crazy to run 50 feet of pipe from the main to the water heater room and back (100’ total) to do this?
Has anybody done this and are there any issues I should watch out for?
Hi, not sure what's going on.
I live in an apartment, management sucks, everything is always messed up or malfunctioning somehow. But i just had something very strange happen
I had CLR in a ziploc bag, hair tied around the shower head.
And all of a sudden, the CLR was disappearing and ended up coming out the other faucets (handheld shower thing and the tub faucet) I was confused, and I guess the shower head is vacuuming /sucking, and made it come out the other two.
what happened? is this an issue ? am i gonna get CLR all over me if i take a shower ? what should I do? thank you
Hello,
I'm repiping my house and am going to change the bath shower combo also. I'm using Pex A for the whole system.
This seems really easy but I just can't find an answer. I need to change the valve for my shower/bath combo. What is the name of the valve that I need? Is it simply a diverter valve? Online I see a bunch of valves and not sure which one I need.
I've been seeing a bunch of mixing valves that seem to be just for a shower.
Thanks!
Disposal I installed. Black pipe has no threading and as you can see it goes all over the place. How do I connect to these two with a seal? Thanks in advance.
At a bar bathroom right now looking at this plumbing work. It looks like a water supply is connected to the drain.
Anyone seen this setup before?
Sorry I’m a bit of a noob, but have only just noticed this hole around the back of the house outside that is overflowing with water.
It seems to be dispensing the water that comes from the washing machine, located in the room inside, next to this hole.
Is this fine, or is there anything to be concerned about here?
Have a pinhole water leak. The water usually evaporates before it drips. But I figure if there is a small hole now, there’s likely to be a larger hole in the future. I’m not sure the best way to go about repairing it though. The house is 60 years old and these are the original copper pipe? Should I take this as an indicator that all of the pipes are ripe for more pinhole leaks in the future and start replacing as much copper that is exposed, or is this something that’s probably a one off and I can just have the small section of pipe that’s leaking replaced and not have to worry about anything else for years?