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Hi I posted this on Plumbing Code Questions - probably the wrong place - so reposting it here. I'd be grateful for any thoughts. I live in Nova Scotia in a house built around 1850 and over the years there's been a fair bit of barbarity committed in terms of doubtful building maintenance and...

Hi I live in Nova Scotia in a house built around 1850 and over the years there's been a fair bit of barbarity committed in terms of building maintenance and installation. One endemic problem has been a copper pipe that freezes. I'm attaching some pictures of the arrangement. This pipe runs off...

Hi I live in an old house and I'm just finishing off installation of an upstairs bathroom, to date, there's been no water upstairs, everything is downstairs including the current bathroom, with water fed up from the basement. I've been able to connect the upstairs cold to a pipe that connects...

Hi I'm in the process of installing a new shower room and toilet upstairs. At this time of year we get a lot of humidity and toilets sweat. I'm using pex pipe and I have an idea that for the toilet I could use a fairly long length (12'-15') and wrap it around the ABS sewer pipe to pick up...

Hi I have a 150 year old house in Nova Scotia that I bought 4 years ago and have been working on - previously pretty much untouched for 40 years! I should add that I'm fairly good at woodwork - helped my Dad with our boat as a kid - and have successfully done quite a lot around here including...