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I recently looked at a well head design that I never saw before. The house was built about 1995 in rural Delaware. The well head looks like a piece of 6 inch PVC coming out of the ground. There is no metal cap or wiring showing, just a PVC pipe cap. There is also a stainless tag around the base...

My well water is polluted with carcinogens from a local factory. I installed a whole house carbon filtration system to remove the toxins. I installed a residential water meter between the well pump tank and carbon filters to monitor usage. The water meter used to show about 100 gallons per day...

I live in a house built by a family who drank a lot and said " close enough " a lot. I want to swap an old 5 gallon per flush toilet with a new 1.28 gallon model to save water. I read that rough in is measured from the wall ( not baseboard ) to the center of the toilet bolt. Problem is the left...

Good Afternoon - I recently found my well is contaminated with PFOA courtesy of a local company that was dumping the stuff. I bought 2 very large carbon filters that have plastic heads and housings with 1 inch female npt connections. The local well water is very acid so I wanted all plastic...

Good Evening - I have a rental that has been vacant since 11/2021. I keep the water shut off to avoid damage in case of a leak or frozen pipe. Today, I went over and found the water heater drain pan had a half inch of water in it. The water heater is a 40 gallon GE electric installed in 2005...

I finally evicted some non paying tenants and got the house back. The water was shut off two months ago and they continued to use the toilets. Two toilets are brim full with solid waste and toilet paper, one flushed OK when I turned the water on. What is the best way to unclog the loaded...

I am fixing up a trashed vacant rental for resale. The plastic tub surround was trashed so I discarded it. I found the single handle shower and tub valve leaking from a porosity in the casting. The house was built in 1970 and has copper piping going to the shower valve. I need to replace the...

Good afternoon. I have a toilet to install and am not sure how to proceed. The toilet flange is thick PVC and sticks up about 3/8 inch above the floor. The flange is PVC and slip fits into the cast iron pipe and is screwed to the wood floor. I checked an American Standard toilet and the horn...

Yesterday, I had to cut a piece of very old 1/2 inch CPVC pipe in a really confined space. There was no room for a hacksaw or even a hand held hacksaw blade. A scissor type PVC / PEX cutter just broke the brittle pipe at about a 45 degree angle. I tried a small Rigid copper tubing cutter and it...

New guy here. This is my first post so please be gentle :) I live in a 1971 home in a rural area. I have a Gould 2 line jet pump in the basement manufactured in 1991. 2 poly lines run to a buried well head. I have lived here 20 years and everything worked perfect until now. The well tank...