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I've got some black jelly growing in my bathroom sink drain. Cleaned everything out a few months ago when it basically stopped draining, but now it's back and I can actually see it slowly growing out of the drain pipe into the strainer. What is this stuff and how do I stop it from growing? The...

About two years ago, I redid the strainers on my kitchen sinks. Removed the old strainers, completely cleaned everything out, put down a liberal amount of fresh plumber's putty, connected everything together, seemed to work great. Over time, a little bit of putty would ooze out the top. I would...

My neighbors told me that they recently discovered that their hot water pipes in the basement, which were covered with foam insulation, had pinhole leaks. They had plumbers come out and replace both their hot and cold water pipes in the basement with PEX. They didn’t touch any of the piping in...

Just practicing for now. Could not get the solder to melt with water soluble flux. Tried the petroleum based one and decided to screw it and keep heating until the solder melted. Lo and behold, turned out great. Now I want to try again with the water soluble stuff so I can comply with code...

I've seen a bunch of earlier threads on this but wanted to confirm my understanding for my specific situation in New Jersey. Current setup is a 2" standpipe without its own vent. NJ uses NPC (yes, this is a thing) and standpipes do not require their own vents as long as you have an air gap (or...

Follow-up on my earlier thread… I'd like to build my own shut-off valves because the standard kits you get at HD don't really work for my setup. Can someone provide a link to components I can use to build a shut-off valve for washing machine hoses? I'm having a hard time finding something that...

Hi, I currently have 1/2” copper pipe going to a gate valve and standard washer hose connectors for hot and cold water. This is hooked up with regular hoses to a full size washer. In the near future, I’m going to be adding a bunch of things here: another full size washer, a pedestal washer (LG...

Both of the bathroom sinks in our place have connections from the wall bends that look like this: They are on pretty solid. How do I get them off? Rust blaster and WD-40 do absolutely nothing to them. Kitchen sink doesn’t have these shenanigans and came off normally.

Hello, Have a two bowl kitchen sink. Recently replaced the dishwasher hose to have a proper high loop (previous hose had a bunch of excess flopping around under the sink) and now anytime the left sink is used for more than a few seconds, the right sink gurgles. With a flashlight I can see air...