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I got this faucet to replace old faithful. The base as you can see is just enough undersize to allow that wobble. It’s not going away by careful positioning and I’ve yet to figure a simple way to fix it. The best I can dream up is a 2” stainless steel washer but those aren’t available...

Hi. I live in Northern NY out in the country. 1995 1400 SF house originally with 2 zone basic simple heating . 4 zone oil Peerless boiler throttled down to 105K. nozzle. I never was thrilled at how it worked even at a buck a gallon when it got over 3 switched it off went to pellet stove and...

150' drilled well 1/2HP pump 10GPH. 60/40 switch. I have everything running through the wholehouse filter with the standard wrapped media and have for years. Lately we put in a garden further out than anything before and the pressure could be better. Someone suggested bypassing ahead of...

It's a standard shut off type pressure switch to a well pump mounted in a mobile home rental. I get a call from tenant that there is no water. I go over and try switch to find there is power to the pressure switch but no pump. The gauge read zero and flickered momentarily when I toggled...

This is about a set of Velux doors made in 1978 on my Father in laws house in Germany. The door is a triple pain that you can open regularly as a door or as a security means will unhinge across the top and pull inwards along the top a foot or so. It's hard to describe but surely someone...

This is a Miller gun furnace in a rental mobile home I have had for 25 years. Typical 65000 BTU setup in good working order which runs fine. The last couple months I started having problems with oil accumulating down in the bottom of the plastic motor housing assembly. It then drips down...

I don't use my boiler for anything but heating hot water anyways and the sidearm tank just died. While expensive here in NY State it seems to make more sense to just put in an electric tank and install it upstairs where it is warm rather than the cold basement. How many kilowatts does a...

Ok after 16 years my 30 gallon super cell finally is leaking time for something new. So what's my best option here? I can replace it with another cell similarly and do it myself or should I have a plumber put in a coil? The boiler is a Peerless 4 section with the usual side by side setup...

I needed to make a 6" hole through a poured concrete foundation in my basement. I got a nice new makita hammer drill masonary bit for my drill and found out how ugly it could be. Forget that. A real masonary drill costs too much and I didn't want to rent one so I thought what about my hand...

Checked and both elements have continuity both are working to hear them. I drained the tank outside and didn't notice a hardly any sediment. Come to think of it I knocked all the crap out only about a year ago. Anyways refilled the thing and it seemed to work. This seemed odd to me...

40 gallon State Electric hot water tank 5 or so years old in a rental trailer I own. Lots of lime in the water in the area. Lots of sediment build up 2 years ago when I last drained it. It had built up to the point where the lower element had shorted at the time. That was then this is...

I am making a couple solar collectors and no way am I paying that extortionist price for reducing T's for the header at the top. I have lots of experience with the torch and sweating ect. I want to drill and solder connect the 1/2" along the top to a 1" for the header. Can this be done...

I have this 1984 mobile home (lets be honest here TRAILER) that I now rent out. I have owned this since it was new so I can safely say nothing has been altered or stranger than you would otherwise find in a trailer. Anyways, I have this tenant who cooks with oodles of grease. I mean...