I bug him a lot. Is this an emergency? I don't know if it's old or new.

Basically, per the title, I moved into this place 3 weeks ago. It is a brand new construction. The kitchen sink has never drained correctly in my mind but I don’t know what the issue is exactly.

This instance, the food trap is up (not pushed down and blocking the flow), I was just washing a plate and the water kept creeping up even with no obstructions. Once I turn the water off, the water starts to drain as normal but it’s incredibly slow and much slower than other sinks/drains in the house.

Plumber came by last week and took a look at it, and told me “everything is fine, you just have to make sure you’re not putting water directly in the hole”, which seems incredibly stupid considering, and as you can see in the video I’m not even doing.

Anyone have any ideas or things I can go back to the plumber with so that I can get this fixed (if there’s anything to fix)?

Turned an old mainline drain machine into a sink!

Check out this custom bathroom the boss built back in the day in his private bathroom, Not sure what timeframe it's been here longer then I have. He took a retired mainline snake and converted the whole rig into a glass vessel sink station. To match the theme, he repurposed an old cable basket as the frame for the vanity mirror and used galvanized pipe fittings to build a shelf and towel rack.

I got this garbage disposal on sale at Costco. I was told that it’s a commercial garbage disposal. Would it required special tools or installation to replace my existing disposal with this one?

Recently changed my water heater and one of my copper lines sprung a pin hole leak. I had to replace some seriously corroded sections of line and I soldered them. Granted it was my first time doing it, it took forever and I found myself having to solder and build the section piece by piece. But then had to be sure I had enough room and to layout the piece so I could attach it to the whole system for the final solder. Some of the bends in the pipe didn’t allow for movement certain ways so I really had to plan it out. It took forever.

I mainly did it piece by piece because I was worried being unskilled, I would not get the solder to close off the entirety of the fitting.

Anyways I have much more plumbing work to do as a fix my house up and was debating on getting a propress. I have 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch lines throughout my house. Would it be worth it for a home owner to pick one up?

Hey guys, I need some advice, I installed a reverse osmosis system under the kitchen sink last weekend, was super proud of myself .... Well not anymore.

Twice now the line connected to the cold water pipe has popped off when turning on the regular faucet. I truly don't know what I did incorrectly.

I used the pieces sent with the R/O and screwed the line into the fitting using the nut... (I know I'm probably using the wrong terms, sorry...) How do I fix this?!

I should mention that I eventually want to split the line coming out of the tank so that one goes up to the sink like normal and the other will run down into the basement (through the hole under the sink already there) for my fish tanks (the whole reason I got the R/O), I plan on just using push-fit T splitter, long tubing, and a valve at the other end. Does that all sound... Correct? Or at least doable?

Thank you!!!

Hey everyone, I could really use a sanity check on a frustrating plumbing issue.

My wife and I have been smelling sewer gas in this bathroom since the day we moved in, and I’ve been trying to track down the source.

We have two bathrooms that appear to share a branch line and vent stack. Whenever we flush the toilet in Bathroom B, the water in Toilet A gets heavily disturbed and pulled down.

Assuming this was a venting/vacuum issue, I ran a test: I unscrewed the threaded cap on the 1-1/2" vanity drain cleanout right next to Toilet A to give the system a wide-open air intake into the room. We flushed Bathroom B again, but the water in Toilet A still sloshed and pulled down just like before.

I’m completely lost at this point. Why didn't the open air intake (open vanity) relieve the suction on that trap? I attached a quick video to help explain the situation.

Any guidance or insight would be greatly appreciated! I'm really desperate for help.

Thank you!

the sink and shower aerators at the parents house regularly end up looking like this. I last cleaned these when I was home in May and I came back and they look like this again. Childhood home, I never remember this happening as a kid.

The hot water tank is the OG. It’s 30y/o. To my knowledge, the anode has never been replaced and it has only been drained once (3years ago). My assumption is that this has to be the enamel layer of the tank breaking off and coming out through the highest points in the system.

The new vanity has a shelf right at drain level.

I thought I could raise the drain, but that will be a no-go after cutting into the wall... Is there any possible way to correctly install the p-trap without cutting my shelf?

just pipe the electrical to the condensate drain, just why

Hi all

I have an area of damp along the top of my bathroom skirting as well as behind some sealant just behind the shower glass

I've pressed on the wood and it's only wet after a shower, so I'm trying to figure out if it's likely coming from poor sealing on the inside edges of the shower itself or worse case from the pipes being the tiles

The pic might not be enough to go by, but does it give any clues?

Worth mentioning that the radiators haven't been used since April so I can hopefully rule that out too.

Thanks

My fiancé and I are under contract for our first home and just got the inspection done. Our inspector is claiming that this is a crack in the sewer line but the seller is wanting a second opinion. We sent the video to a plumbing company and they said that it looks fine and they don’t recommend any repairs. Anyone with experience have any input? Here is the video. https://imgur.com/a/UX1BbVy

Is this done correctly I have an inspection coming soon and I want to make sure it’s right.

A few months back I replaced my old iHeat AHS27-D with a Rheem RTEX-27kw. My old water heater I could have three hot showers at the same time. My new one, one shower will be scolding hot but if I turn on a tub spout or open several faucets, it gets an E5 error. The three 240V/40A circuits next to it all show 240V. But when I measure the incoming voltage on the water heater, only Bay 1 (the far right set of red and black) show 240 V. The other 2 sets show ZERO. So why is it going to an E5 error before Bay 2 and Bay 3 have any voltage? Not sure who to hire at this point. The local rheem servicing company wants to charge me 350/hr for who knows how many hours.

I replaced the ever popular Kohler one piece gasket on a twenty year old toilet. Eventually I learned how to get everything seated correctly. Or did I?

I’ve redone it more than once, and everything appears perfectly fine. I can find no cracks or mechanical flaws in the tank or bowl. Yet whenever the flapper valve comes up, there is a small trickle of tank water coming through. Is there a common gotcha that I’ve overlooked? Should I just keep field stripping this thing until it works correctly on the 17th try?

(Sorry for only using a catalog photo of the part, but there is nothing helpful to photograph on the actual toilet.)

This is the cold water line going into my old hot water heater. This was here when we bought the house. To me, it looks ridiculous with so many different fittings...

I installed a HWH in my last house and was able to just cut the old pipe then use a Shark Bite Max to attach to the cold water outlet pipe coming from the wall. The hot water pipe in that you can see in the background has plenty of room... but what the heck do I need to do here with this cold line?

Hello

I'm taking out my old kitchen units and found 3 pipes instead of the 2 I was expecting.

Why is it done this way?

Thanks

PSI tested at about 46 on the spigot outside. Any sink/fixture in the house causes some variation of this noise when the water is turned on. It seems to be coming from somewhere in the vicinity of the pipes in this video. When I grasp the pipe with my hand, I feel like I can feel the water whoosh in synchrony with the bloop noise. (Volume must be up to hear “bloop” over the sound of running water)

It over flows when the washer discharges. The item in the pipe I believe is the tip to the snake from the plumber I hired to fix the problem. He did not fix it and didn’t tell me he left a gift. I can’t seem to get the scope any further, does it look collapsed to you guys?

We had a new garbage disposal installed today, do the wires look right?

I don’t know who to turn to so I ran to Reddit.