The Deepwater Horizon is an offshore drilling platform that has seen many successes but is destined to go into history for it’s colossal failure while drilling a well in the Macondo Prospect Field in the Mississippi Canyon off the coast of Louisiana. While drilling the well a blow out occurred on April 20, 2010 at [...]

Knowing the location of a septic tank on your property is one of the most important things you should know when buying a property that has a septic system instead of a sanitary sewer. In fact if I was buying a property, I would insist on the septic system being serviced and inspected with a [...]

If you need a new toilet flapper you can easily waste a couple of hundred gallons of water every day. The signs of needing a new flapper often comes in the form of hearing the toilet tank refill when no one has flushed the toilet. If your flapper is five years old or, older chances [...]

Replacing a kitchen basket strainer is the best course of action when a kitchen sink basket strainer is leaking. Some may think that tightening a nut will fix the leak but I assure you it will in almost every case make it worse unless the leak is at the tailpiece connection in which case a [...]

I have never unclogged a toilet with drain opener nor will I! Let me explain this please. I am a service plumber and have cleared many drains, I also am on several well-known plumbing forums on the web offering help to people with plumbing problems. The subject of using drain opener on a toilet frequently [...]

Repairing a Mansfield flush valve is a simple task that many people have a lot of difficulty with because the Mansfield flush valve design is so different from what they are used to seeing in a toilet. Identifying the problem isn’t hard the worn out seal on the Mansfield toilet has the same symptoms as [...]

Installing a water saving can save a lot of water. Because the water going to the showerhead is heated water it will save you both on water usage and water heating costs. Throughout history water saving devices were met with skepticism especially when law mandated the water reduction. Often in these cases we ended up [...]

To stop water pipes from banging there a couple of different types of banging that can occur and each has a different cause and a different cure. The first is “Water Hammer”which occurs when water shuts of usually caused by a large volume flow and a valve, which closes rapidly. Water hammer has a bang [...]

Installing a bathroom sink pop-up assembly is a job that many people even plumbers have trouble doing without having leaks. Some people in an attempt to not have leaks even resort to putting Silicone RTV sealant all over the sealing surfaces of the pop-up assembly, essentially gluing the pop-up in place. The truth is that [...]

Everyday all across the country people connect PVC and galvanized pipes when they tear out rusted out, leaking galvanized pipes. The problem is most people do not know how to make a good connection between the new PVC and the balance of the old galvanized pipe. I have seen all kinds of rubber couplings used [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to share with you how I change a kitchen sink sprayer nozzle. Kitchen sink side sprayer nozzles are a very convenient item that takes a beating in use. Frequently they get dropped or bumped causing them to break or they may just start leaking. Usually I replace [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to share how I replace a kitchen sink sprayer and hose. The kitchen sink hand held sprayer is a convenient thing to have for rinsing food, dishes and even just cleaning the sink. Yet many sit broken for long periods of time with things like broken handles [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to tell you how I replace the toilet flush handle. Replacing a flush handle on a toilet is an easy task that many people go through great lengths to avoid doing. The results of those efforts are almost comical sometimes and many times take far longer to [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to tell you how I flush out a water heater. It is important to flush a water heater periodically to keep the minerals that accumulate in the bottom of the tank from building up and causing the water heater to run inefficiently or ruin components. The build [...]

Keeping pipes from freezing overnight is a problem many people face when unusually cold temperatures arrive in an area. In most cases homes are built using methods that stand up to the typical winter in the area they are in but only get into freezing trouble only when unusually cold temperatures arrive. Inside the home [...]

Installing heat tape on water pipes to prevent freezing isn’t needed on most properly constructed homes. Construction methods are used that in the area are good enough to prevent pipes from freezing. Water supply lines are buried below frost lines and are run into the home and throughout the home where they typically will not [...]