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Curious really (and apologies if endlessly addressed before, though I looked): I plan to replace my water main from the meter at my property edge to inside the joists in the house. Most of the house has already had its piping replaced with PEX, but we never did the main line in to that PEX...

I have a guest bathroom with a stupidly installed shower outlet (at about 6'). See photo. The problem is that with any head (including the newly installed one), it's just too low. Yes, I could probably open up the wall behind and move the stem a foot higher (and plug the old hole in the...

As my plumber is returning to replace a bushing in new bathroom (see thread on burst of rusty water), I was chatting with a Hansgrohe rep that said that a lot of plumbers do not bother to "justify" the temperature control on the trim covering an iBox. I understand (per the installation manual -...

Oh oh... with the installation of a new master bath, we have a problem with the water to the tub. It goes through a Hansgrohe iBox then PEX to a filler and a separate hand-sprayer. We now get a rusty burst of water (not the first few inches but a big shot of brown for about 10" of water and then...

I've got a quality home built in 1970 that has cast iron DWV (including all rain-drains). Most of the regular sink/laundry drains, which are easily accessible, are 2" cast iron (all held together with couplings that are easy to separate). I'm now finding some problems and am beginning to think...