Resetting a toilet is a relatively easy task to accomplish when wax seal on a toilet becomes compromised and either leaks water or sewer gases into your home. The wax ring is the weakest joint in the entire drain, waste, venting system of your home and in most cases serves well until a toilet moves [...]

My name is Arlene, I wanted to share How I… Laid a Floating Floor. It wasn’t long after a very heavy and very long rainy season that I had noticed the rug in the den was saturated. I was in the mood to try something new so instead of laying another carpet I decided to [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to share with you how I sweat together copper pipe and fittings. The first and probably most important step in sweating a copper joint is to clean the tube and fitting. Plumber’s cloth and fitting brushes do a good job of cleaning off the oxidation and getting [...]

Since having my kids, I never really cared that much about the temperature of bathwater before. If it were too hot then I would just turn it down as I was in the shower. Since having my first child it was very important to make sure that the bathwater was the right temperature. Like every [...]

Hi, My name is Stacey and I would like to share with you how I billed out pump repair invoices. I was the secretary in charge of doing everything under the sun. My day included answering the phones, typing up proposals, purchasing, accounts receivables and accounts payable and invoicing. The company’s main clientele was commercial [...]

Hi, My name is Stacey and I have a lot of experience mailing line cards. Part of my job as a secretary for a pump repair shop was to keep customers up to date on new materials and new services that we offered. Since the office was way to busy to call up the hundreds [...]

I can remember the first time I ever used a copper tubing cutter, but it actually was not a RIDGID brand but instead some off brand. This was when I was still just messing around with tools and before the days of me even beginning to work as a plumbers helper / plumbing mechanic. A [...]

Hi My name is Joseph and I would like to share with you how I sweat copper plumbing pipe. The tools that I use are a plumbers torch, some flux, solder, copper pipe, two turn cleaning brush, emery cloth and some copper fittings. The first thing that I do is to make sure that I [...]

Hi, My name is Johnny and I wanted to share with you how I light my plumbers torch. Some may just think its a 1.2.3 thing but there is actually a process to lighting my plumber’s torch that I follow every time I use it that keeps me safe. Acetylene is a highly flammable gas [...]

I fell into a plumbing career by accident. I was in the Air Force repairing aircraft on the flight line when a hearing test said that I had suffered a hearing loss. When you work on the flight line you are in a high noise area and wear hearing protection but when a hearing test [...]