Recent content by James Henry

I just started working with a plumber from NYC, I love the guy, great worker but he will never admit he's wrong. Must be a NYC thing.

You probably need to open that left side valve.

Probably didn't go to far down the drain. Try to vacuum it out.

You install it where it works. Sometimes you have to relocate something somewhere else to make room, like that pile of boxes on the floor next to the water heater.

It's there box, they shouldn't charge you.

Yes. Use copper stub outs with 1/4 turn compression stops. If they ever fail you just loosen the nut that holds them on and install a new one.

If you're in Florida a 2" is probably fine you don't have to worry about the vent opening freezing over but you need to check the international residential code for where the vent is aloud to exit an exterior wall.

You can call the city and they will locate your main shut off. Ball valves sometimes lock up but rarely leak. I would try to shut it off.

If the angle stop for the hot water line going to the sink has a valve stem with a rubber seat that may have come loose and is vibrating when the water is flowing.

Yes, unscrew the bonnet and unscrew the valve stem.

There's more than one way to fix that. Go to a plumbing supply house, not Lowe's or home Depot and show them that picture. The person at the counter is usually a plumber. Do not use a fernco reducer, the rats will eat through it.

It's wrong, do not proceed you'll be sorry.

Just loosen the straps and slide it on. No silicone.

Push the pipe in until in bottoms out. Use a 4" fernco coupling. All sewage tanks use rubber couplings unless they have threaded outlets because they are made out polyethylene and you can't glue polyethylene.

Should have asked here before you installed it. I would have made the double sink 2".