Recent content by flexinflux

Thanks for the input guys. I'll look into possibly trying to save a few sheckles by buying some of the materials myself. Thankfully I had the valve updated a couple of years ago, so it might be acceptable to keep it where it is. Strangely, the plumber that installed my valve is the same one who...

Thanks for your lengthy reply. I did check out the forum(s) you recommended and they were very helpful. I was briefly considering the option of doing this myself, but after a little reading I can tell that this is probably one project left to someone else. Perhaps getting bids from plumbing...

I'm in the process of obtaining bids to redo a 50-year-old, tiled shower stall with a bad trap/drain. This is a 3x3 enclosure with white tile. Today I received a proposal from a local plumbing & HVAC company asking me for roughly six thousand dollars. Their bid includes ripping everything out...

Hello all, My water heater (gas) is near death. It is a tall 50 gallon model in a 'shelf' basement. When this unit was originally installed, my guess is that it was replacing a smaller model because... in order to make this heater fit, a 2x4 section of the concrete floor was broken up and a...