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Thanks everybody for the wisdom you have shared with me. I just bought a new Rheem 40!gallon, 9 year warranty gas water heater and I have a local independent plumber coming out next week to do the install properly. This is a fantastic resource and I feel lucky to have found it. Thank you Terry...

Thanks Reach4, I could not find a date code but the serial # is RMNG0802401721 and it is a Richmond 6 year warranty heater. I took a picture of the label. Thank you. FYI, I have installed 2 water heaters in the past but they were identical to what was there. You got that right. Aprilaire it...

Thanks Reach4, I could not find a date code but the serial # is RMNG0802401721 and it is a Richmond 6 year warranty heater. I took a picture of the label. Thank you. FYI, I have installed 2 water heaters in the past but they were identical to what was there.

I have an older water heater in my townhouse and my wife noticed there was some water pooling up on the top of it. I took some pictures and have attached them. The water seems to be coming from right where the union nipple goes into the water heater. I am getting the most water from the cold...

Hi guys, thanks Reach, Terry and Highlander for the great posts and help. I couldn’t take the suspense any longer and it was driving me crazy where that nasty smell was coming from. I laid on the floor and smelled all around the walls of the bathroom where the drywall meets the floor after all...

So I tried the smart plastic drop cloth idea to see if the sewer gas smell is coming from the toilet but it is not. My wife who has a keener sense of smell than I got down on the floor and swore that the smell was coming from the baseboard. I pulled off a piece of baseboard next to and behind...

I own a 2 story townhome on a slab with no basement. Our downstairs bathroom has had a sewer smell develop in it and I also noticed the toilet was rocking side to side. I pulled it off to find a broken pvc closet flange. Replaced the flange and set it back on with a new thick wax ring with no...

Thanks jadnashua for the info. I do have a couple of questions based on your comments. I have seen some items at the big box stores to set a toilet without a wax ring, which I believe you mentioned. Should I be using one of those instead of wax? Please let me know what they are called. Also...

Hi all, I bought a new Kohler Cimarron comfort height toilet and installed about 18 months ago. I did not level the toilet prior to install. Now I am paying for my mistakes. The toilet is rocking and there is a bad sewer smell in the bathroom. I am a very large guy, about 350lbs. I plan to reset...