Recent content by Chel_in_IL

Happened 3x now.. quite a surprise. The brand name is Uponor, and from what I've read, early they had issues with pinhole leaks. It's happening along the length of the run, not near a joint.

My fiance' and I have a duplex that is 100 years old, has an upper and first level apartment with shared laundry in the basement. (We live here, don't rent it out.) I completely reworked the plumbing in my old house with PEX and manifolds, which was fairly easy as everything was accessible from...

Like many others, I haven't been on this forum for quite awhile, but it's the first place I thought of when considering a place to ask a question. That itself says alot when there are other well-known places that I could seek advice on the World Wide Web. Much love to Terry's family. Thanks for...

12 years later and I’m searching the ‘net after I found a couple of pinholes in a vertical vent/drain pipe in the basement. I started reading this post and thought, “Wait, that sounds familiar...” (Yah duh because you wrote it.) Most everything plumbing related has been replaced in this house...

I have a split level home (like a raised ranch) and had an extremely rotted window on the lower level that needed replacement. I am working on a remodel project and decided to replace the two double hungs with a smaller single slider from the local Restore. The sill was rotted so it was a...

BTW, it's not directly copper to galvanized. The rest of the house is galvanized, and the shower valve is in between the two metals. From what I've read online, this is acceptable (but correct me if I am wrong.)

Talk to the fiance...

Well, I decided to take down part of the stud wall that was already in the room, and found why it was so deep. (The wall had drywall and plywood screwed to it, and was not finished.) It looks like the wall was made out of scrap from an old deck... There was a 2x6 used as a footer, and various...

My home is about 40 years old - it's a small bi-level with a 3/4 finished lower level. I noticed while in a crawl space under the foyer that the walls are spaced out from the foundation about 1-1/2". I thought at first they did this to create a ledge under the windows and maybe for ease of...

Wow.. that looks bad! I completely remodeled my bathroom all the way down to the studs. I also have a Moen faucet, a bit different "style" than yours, but I bet you the guts are still the same. When we put the new valve in, we put into place the fiberglass surround and removed it several times...

When I remodeled my bathroom, I went with ceramic. It's a small bath (9x5), and it cost me about $350 material/labor to have a tile floor put in. (I put in the underlayment, and I paid a guy to lay the tile.) For $125 for labor I figured it was worth having someone who knew what they were doing...

I've always hated CFLs. But, I gave in and bought eight 100-watt equivalent lights and used them in my utility room, outside porch light, and a couple of lights in my living room. I had an LED flood in the porch light, which worked fine for the past 6 months but then most of the LEDs stopped...

The poorly-plumbed water softener Almost 3 years ago, I purchased an "as-is" house that was a foreclosure. It had sat empty for about a year before going on the market. There was a water softener already in the house, but the bank's realtor said that there was no guarantee that it worked. It...

Thought it might be humorous and entertaining to have a thread to submit messed-up plumbing photos...

I think the guy who used to own my house did that work... ;) BTW, are there any websites where people post pictures of interesting home repair work such as this? Or, is there a thread on this site appropriate for these little pieces of humor? I have a few of my own I'd like to submit. :)