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I need to install a toilet in my new garage. The finished floor is the slab itself. I have cut off the 4" PVC stubbed pipe basically at the slab surface and when I lay a level across the top of the pipe/slab I see that I don't have a perfectly level surface across the slab and pipe. Before I cut...

What is the shallowest (front to back) elongated regular-height toilet? Hoping to stay under 25 inches. Hopefully under $250. I'm building a new garage to house my boat and want a SMALL bathroom. After all, the idea of building a garage is not to fill it with a great big bathroom. Thanks in advance.

Does transition cement work for this? Working on mobile home and no one sells ABS pipe and fittings anymore.

I have plumbed my electric water heater (40 gal.) in a mobile home with PEX. Inspector says I must add expansion tank. Cold inlet is near bottom. Most available space is above the water heater. How can I do this while staying all PEX? Thanks in advance.

I'll be installing a Delta shower faucet (132900...no tub) in a Maax S-42 fiberglass shower. What size hole saw should I use for the valve body? When I fasten the valve body to a block of wood and then fasten that block of wood between the studs, should I position it so that the face of the...

I'll be installing a Maax S-42 one-piece fiberglass shower this weekend (42" x 36"). After dry-fitting the shower into alcove, I want to set the unit in a bed of mortar (not structolite). Which mortar product (by exact name and amount please, if possible) should I use that is readily obtainable...

I'll be installing a Maax S-42 one-piece fiberglass shower this weekend (42" x 36"). After dry-fitting the shower into alcove, I want to set the unit in a bed of mortar (not structolite). Which mortar product (by exact name and amount please, if possible) should I use that is readily obtainable...

I've been helping my brother with one of his rental properties. My brother has to repair two leaking shower drains in one of his mobile homes. When installing the new drains should he use silicone or plumbers putty? Also, what is the secret to connecting to a 1" meter at the road? We have a drip...

Hello. I'll be purchasing a Toto Drake and in my research learned that the fill valve is not the best that it could be. Should I put in a Korky 528MP or a Fluidmaster 400A when the toilet is initially installed? Thanks in advance.

I'm helping my brother repair a mobile home and it is wired with self-contained switches/receptacles (14-2). In several areas we had to replace the sheet rock and thus installed new-construction gang boxes for the switches/receptacles. I'm fairly confident with regard to rewiring the receptacles...

I want to hang 2-3 8' fluorescent strip lights in my shop located 40' from the house. I want to power the shop lights (on rare occasions) by running an extension cord (on the ground and in good weather only) from the patio to the shop. Ideally, in my mind, I would plug in the extension cord into...

What would cause a gas furnace to draw too many amps?

I have a 3' straight duct run from the main trunk in a mobile home to a bathroom. It just does not have any air moving throuh it! How can I vastly improve the air flow into the bathroom? Thanks.

It won't be long until I'm ready to have my self-contained AC condenser unit installed. I will install the return air grill in the floor and the damper underneath the main trunk. 1. The manual says to install the damper forward of center of the home. 2. I will minimize the supply and return...

I'm renovating a mobile home and have pulled out all the plumbing. I am seeking advice on replumbing the DWV system. I have taken pictures. I have also moved some fixtures around. Can someone offer up some Do's and Don'ts for mobile home DWV plumbing? Thanks in advance.

I'm remodeling a Mobile Home (MH) and have a couple of GFCI outlet questions. Q1: After locating the outlet at the BEGINNING of outlets wired in series, and finding the LINE for the beginning outlet coming from the circuit panel, if the breaker feeding the LINE is a 15A breaker, that means...

My fireplace blower, when on, barely seems to move the heated air from the fireplace and into the room. I was expecting the air to be as forceful as when coming out of your car vents. Am I wrong to expect such forceful air to flow from the fireplace? The fireplace is a Monessen BDV 300 series...

I have a mobile home toilet that still runs even after installing a new flapper. If I press down on the new flapper the water quits running into the bowl. I've cleaned the edge where the flapper rests. How can I fix this. Is there some kind of replacement part?

Q1: What is the best product to use when insulating CPVC pipes under a mobile home? Q2: If it is the rigid foam pipe sleeves sold at Home Depot, can the hot and cold pipes be insulated all the way to the surface of the electric hot water heater? Q3: The trailer has skirting around it. Would...

Terry, Is it possible for you to start a "FIREPLACE" segment in the forums? Being winter time, may folks may have questions/issues about their gas or real fireplace. I have a Monessen BDV36 (?) gas fireplace insert (direct-vented up through chimney). I leave the pilot on all year. When I...