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I have a crawl space that I want to dehumidify. I have found a unit, but, not clear on how to drain. The crawl sits adjacent to my basement (it is under an addition). My thought was to set the unit up in the middle of the space and the run a pitched line to an outside wall and drain that way...

I have a home that was built in 1949 and it has a cast iron stack and line. We are currently remodeling the basement and down to the studs. The other day I had a plumber replace part of the stack between the flanges with PVC as it had a number of patches. During the replacement some rust...

I am having some plumbing work done at my home and the main drain line for the house was partially replaced as it had a number of patches done over the years. After the replacement the cleanout started to leak. Not sure if there was some damage done during the replacement of the replaced...

This house was built in the late 70's.. Not sure how to remove. I have seen the drain types where you use a key but nothing like that here.

I have a question I am hoping someone can help me with. I had a 50 gallon (40K BTU) AO Smith water heater for about 10 years. In the past few months it was not producing enough how water for more than one person, but, before that we had no issues with my wife and I taking back to back showers...

My home was built in the 1940's. During a bad storm last week (7 inches of rain in 3 hours) we had a sewer backup. We got about 3 inches of water in the basement. Flooding in the town was pretty widespread dispute being the highest point in cook county. Based on my discussion with the...

We remodeled our bathroom and are now finding that the tub is draining very slowly. Tried plunging, hot water already. Seems to have made some difference but, not draining anywhere near as fast as it was prior to the remodel. One thing that they did during the remodel was to make a slight...

We had a contractor do a bathroom remodel and we are finding that the water pressure from the fixtures have dropped. I noticed that the contractor used 3/8 inch lines for the faucet (we had provided 1/2 which should have been used). In addition, we have a much larger shower head with more jets...

I have a house that was built in the 40's. Prior owner did a bathroom remodel but left this pipe sticking out of the wall. It is capped, but, my concern is why did he not take it out to being with. I am hoping it was because he did not want to go through the trouble of opening the wall. When...