Recent content by bbruck

Thank you all for your willingness to help a newbie. I'll study your responses and go to mycoffeepot.org. To clarify my situation, however, I have an ice maker line in a wall box with a shut off valve. I cannot replace the valve without professional help, and cannot access behind the valve...

I'm trying to run a tee of my ice maker supply line to a fill valve for my coffee maker. This is new construction on a slab. The supply line for the ice maker is a 1/4" braided line with male/female threaded ends. The line to the coffee maker is a 1/4" plastic tube. Thus, what I need is a 1/4"...

I have a one-handle high arc pulldown kitchen faucet. When I click the button on the want to change it from stream to spray, a small stream of water sprays sideways. The cause is that the one of the ring of small plastic flexible nipples that creates the spray is ripped, due to a helpful...

Thank you HJ. If you don't mind another question... Is this something I can do from topside (i.e. inside the tub) by unscrewing the chrome ring the stopper goes into, or is this something that would need to be done from the underside of the tub?

I'm trying to find a tip-toe or push-pull drain stopper for my 1959 tub. The problem is that the screen is held in with a 3/16 bolt, not what seems to be the standard 3/8 or 5/16. Any leads as to whether anyone makes such an animal? Many thanks!

Having read all the reviews here, I purchased three toto ultramax sanigloss toilets for our house over the past five years. The newest is less than a year old. The problem is my 11-year old daughter. Her bowel movements constantly clog all three toilets. It's not a matter of too much toilet...

Thanks, all. Just the information I needed.

I have a couple simple (?) questions about using wire nuts. I am swapping out my old lighting switches for some newer Insteon (home automation) switches. These switches have stranded wires come out of them. 1. What is the proper way to wire two copper wires with one or more stranded wires...

I have an ultramax with the valve pictured in the lower picture. Can anyone tell me (a) what the model number of that valve is so I can google it, and (b) what the white screw is for? I'm getting a pretty steady drip from the little black hose. The flapper is seated tightly, but water just...