Recent content by daveydo

Hi all, Thanks for the input but I perfer a sweated valve if possible. Usuallly, I remove the stem, plug the pipe with bread & use a pencil flame torch, & watch how I orient the flame. . When it comes to replacing them, I cut the pipe back, sand the surface, treat it to a heated bath of...

Hello Dahlman, Valves are now installed as you instructed. Thanks again

Thanks Dahlman

Hello all Has anyone any experience with sweating this type of Valve (DAHL Brothers Canada Ltd.). I'm having a heck of a time trying to remove the seat nut. I'm afraid I may cook the seals if I try to sweat it without removing them first.

Hi there all I need some advice on installing a new tub. The bathroom I'm remodelling is small 9' x 5'. I've removed everything in it.Including the tile on both the floor & the walls. The tub is a 5' standard skirted tub & the opening it's going into is 5' as well. However, the...

Hey there, I've had a similiar problem. What I found was that the flapper stuck after sitting for a few hours. Mineral build-up maybe, I can't recall. Anyway, what I experience was that the flapper did not come up to vertical on the first flush. As a result, an incomplete flush. The second...

Justread the last line of your last post again. How many joists are you considering to alter?

A pic of the proposed site of the joist holes would help. Anyway consider this, drilling or notching a floor joist will of course weaken it. Having said that, a drilled hole in the center is best. What notching will do is create a stress raiser at the inside corners created by the notch, thus...

have a look at this www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/pdf_files/PlbgInfo.pdf

Sorry about the picture quality.

Just wanted to post some pics of the basement bathroom project I completed last year. Thanks for the help all. This was a complete new addition right down to installation of all waste lines and vents. It was a weekends project. Everything you see here was done by me including drywall, framing...

Thanks, I hadn't installed faucets in a tub in years. So, it was a surprise to me that the standard 12" center was no longer standard. But that's the fate of a lot of old standards due to modern design and manufacturing methods. Isn't it great, theree are so many more possibilities these days...

I just finished installation of a Maax tub of similiar construction. In order to tile under all 5 sides I framed and shimmed as you descibed. After setting it in a bed of mortar. I removed the shims and later tiled. Maax instructions said that the tub must be supported on the bottom and under...

Will some one please help me with a small problem. I am about to install an American Standard faucet in a fiberglass whirlpool tub. The instructions with the faucet do not say what hole size to drill. The installation drawing shows only that the 3 threaded entries are 1-1/8" diameter. They...

Still each rough-in is different. Without a look can a contractor tell what's involved? Take the venting for instance. what holes needs to be cut out where in order to run vents? Are there obstacles, is the house one storey, two? Can he attach to an existing vent stack, I can think of a lot...