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It has no carbon filter and is getting chlorinated water through the water softener...

just went to someones house today and they showed me some clear pex lines that were turning green within and I was wondering what is the best way to deal with this situation?? They are on city water with a water softener,, and I figure its because of the incomming light from the glass block...

your original drawing is close to correct for a series install in a home you would want to hook up the return pump line to the bottom drain of the first heater in series so the low temp water has to flow through both heaters--- Series is the only way I ever hook up heaters.....in a...

you can always just install a new flange into that pvc drain if you so choose I have used these to get me out of nasty troubles many times you just cut them to the correct size and glue them into the 3 inch pvc pipe and it keeps from having to cut out the old flange .... which is...

Why dont you Just borrow a tap in the correct size from someone and re-thread the floor drain.... ?? I have had to do that before Their has to be an old german plumber or mechanic near you that should have the size you need just sitting on a shelf collecting dust...

I use fluidmaster pro ballcocks only and have never had a problem with any of them.... they all have had plastic shanks for at least 30 years now... They have beefed up the plastic nuts on the toilet supply lines a while back and I noticed it in passing but never knew why it was done.... I...

I will be switching over to this brand sometime soon...

We have been using some common brands of flexible toilet supplies from our local plumbing supply house over the past 30 years, probably hundreds of them.... Mostly brass craft and other name brands over the years..... All...

You would be wise and prudent to just buy a few of them and store them for the day you wiill need them Or you could drive across the border to Nevada and buy them Murphey's law states that if you have them in storage, odds are you will actually never need them, I have a 60 gallon gas rheem...

You would be wise and prudent to just buy a few of them and store them for the day you wiill need them Or you could drive across the border to Nevada and buy them Murphey's law states that if you have them in storage, odds are you will actually never need them, I have a 60 gallon gas rheem...

Most basements in newer areas have sump pumps installed.... some areas like around Broad ripple and Beech grove need sump pump pits installed in case of a 5 inch rain fall that backs up the sewer system into the home.... its a fail safe system that at least keeps the damaged down to a minimum...

Symmons valves suck and I wont work on them, I even bought the expensive tool kit that is supposed to make the job of extracting sseats easy but it never worked .... You can get yourself into a lot of trouble if you mess with an old symmons valve with no one in 100 miles that have parts for...

Delta makes much better tub and shower facuets that are easy to repair.... The Delta 1700 series are the best tub and shower faucet on the market.... all the rest of Deltas lines are basically junk--- their kitchen and lav faucets are mostly plastic with extra long plastic supply lines that...

I guess you took another bite of the same rotten apple huh?? You went ahead and got another one of those pieces of junk and now its giving you fits again?? I dont understand why you would get another one when you could go with something much less technical and troublesome... Eventually...

I believe they have changed the codes around here and ccst gas pipe now comes insulated and had a ground wire included in the insulation.... its become rather expensive, but lightening can burn a hole through that pipe in a milisecond and set the home on fire....... or jump across and burn...

Normally most heaters in my area have a heavy sized ground wire going across the hot and cold copper right above the water heater that ties back into the breaker box.... I believe it is considered a secondary ground and is code here... ..... The problem is when or if your main ground ever...

This subject is debatable and always has been,,, Water pressure in the area can rise and lower depending on the amount of use in the area and the incomming water pressure can vary at what time of day you test it..... Set it wherever you want to ,, but I normally like to set them more about...

With you being in a condo project with a common water supply for a bunch of units about the only thing you can do would be to install a prv valve going directly into the cold line going into your water heater if you do not have a separate cold line with a shut off to your unit... they will not...

This guys pressure is waaaaaay too high in his home The general idea is to throttle down the pressure to around 60- 70psi so when you flush your toilets they dont sound like a F15 Tomcat jet taking off from an aircraft carrier... the high water pressure is not good for any plumbing fixtures...

you need to kick down your home pressure to about 65 psi.... then set your thermal expansion tank at around 80 psi