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I just installed a lovely faucet at my pantry bar sink. It was a display model faucet, brand unknown but it's European-sized (had to get weird-sized metric supply lines for it.) I cannot find an aerator to fit it, and it sprays wildly without one :( The smallest size my local hardware store...

(Hi, I also posted this on the HW heater forum, but this one is so much more active... and I need to make this decision right away... I hope it's OK to cross post like this!) We currently have an electric hot water heater installed in our domestic HW system. We are changing to an Amtrol...

We currently have an electric hot water heater installed in our domestic HW system. We are changing to an Amtrol CH41BZ. The instructions for the Amtrol call for an expansion tank to be put into the cold water supply line. Our current electric HW heater does not have one installed and we have no...

We just replaced the tub/shower in a full bathroom renovation. Original supply lines were copper, and we never had this problem before. Supply lines were cut and redone with pex. Elbows are brass NPT/pex fittings. The shower nipple is brass; tub spout tube is copper. The new valve is a Moentrol...

The main sewer line exits our 1956 ranch house about 6 feet off the basement floor level. Since we've recently renovated all the bathrooms and kitchens and installed lovely new fixtures, we now have no place to wash paint brushes and other messy things. I would love to install a utility sink...

We're putting a new tub/shower in. It will be used primarily by a teenage girl for showers and tub soaking. We saw that American Standard has a "Deep Soak" drain (#1640.305) that adds 2" water depth by relocating the overflow to the top of the overflow hole. She likes that idea (as do I...

Hi everyone. After MUCH research I had decided on an American Standard Cadet 3 One-Piece toilet for our remodel of my daughter's bathroom. I just didn't have the budget for another Toto (we have the Aquia III in our master) and Lowes sells the Cadet for $255. I actually bought it this morning...

I'm confused. Is there a difference in performance between these two -other than water savings? I like the looks of the Gwyneth (CST454CEFG) better. On Terry's store his Drake model seems to be different than what I can find offered in most places, which is the Eco Drake. I do see the regular...

Hi all- I understand that every bend in supply affects the (pressure? ) output at the shower head.... In our shower layout, we much prefer to have the thermostatic valve and two volume controls stacked in a column arrangement. It just looks a lot nicer in the space. But that will require...

Hi all- We are renovating our master bathroom. It is in a first-floor addition, probably about 45 feet away from the hot water heater and water supply inlet (whatever you call it- where it comes from the street). The bath was originally plumbed in 1990 with copper supply tubing running in the...

We're installing a new soaking tub in our bathroom renovation. The floor is completely gutted so we can build this however we like. Below the floor joists is a very shallow crawl space, dirt is only ~10" below joists. Insulation is between the joists. The tub will be a drop-in on a framed deck...

Our house is built of thick masonry block. NOT fun to drill through! It's a one-story ranch in Maine, so we have cold snowy winters and humid summers. We need to replace a bathroom exhaust fan before we have blown-in insulation installed in the attic this winter. Here are our choices... given...

We are now totally discouraged: the bathroom is completely demolished and we don't know what to do next!:mad: Last night we started roughing in all the new drain plumbing for our bathroom renovation on 1920's house. Originally, the toilet was right next to the stack. Last summer when my...

All fixtures in 1920's 2nd floor bath are stack-vented. Sink curently uses S-trap to floor with about a 7-foot run to stack. We would like to improve this situation without adding a new vent up though the roof or reventing back to the stack through a wall, which would entail ripping apart the...

Hello, We are new here but hoping you might offer some advice. We are remodeling the upstairs bath in our 1920's home. All fixtures are stack-vented (no other vents anyplace in the house.) The tub and toilet are both well within the distance limits for stack venting, so no problems there...