This was my son’s first year of school and I was not happy about the choices of public schools I was being offered. I never thought I would want to send my child to a school that I had to pay for at least not until he went to College. I was pressed for time [...]

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 [...]

Repairing a kitchen sink leak is often a task that you can fix your self. The first thing you need to do is clear out the stuff stored under the sink and you will need a flashlight and a paper towel or, rag. I also like to wipe up any water in the bottom of [...]

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 [...]

Cleaning my oven is one of the worst jobs I have ever done. Needless to say, I don’t do it very often. I usually wait until the whole house becomes smoky when I first heat the oven up. I also know its time when my family asks what’s burning every time I use the oven. [...]

When I was married to my ex-husband he came up with the idea of filling our new above ground pool with pond water. He is a very creative and enterprising man. He is a builder and very good at his job. Well, except for the cement block foundation that caved in. That’s another story. He [...]

Hello all you “do- it – yourselfers”, I would like to explain to all of you how I (Amanda) fixed a pool filter crack. A pool filter functions in a pool the same way the liver functions in the human body. Just as a liver filters out toxins in the human body, a pool filter [...]

Hello all you “do- it – yourselfers”, I would like to explain to all of you how to patch a pool liner on the seam. Owning a pool can be a great source of entertainment as long as you keep up on the maintenance. Having a pool liner in your pool is important because it [...]

Sewer Rats. My niece was staying over and over becoming one of those unwanted house guests who never leave.  I didn’t mind the fact she didn’t do any work, didn’t wash a dish, make a bed or throw a load of laundry in but, after she finally, left I had to call a plumber in.  [...]