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 [...]

Hercules has a great product called “block seal” for Threads and Gaskets. This is an all-purpose sealant that can be used for valves, gaskets, flanges and joints. Hercules Block Seal is a superior gasket sealant that can be used in the plumbing industry as well as other industrial applications. It is best used for water, [...]

Hercules Real Tuff is a multi purpose thread sealant much like Megaloc but Real Tuff contains PTFE. In fact Real Tuff has the highest amount of PTFE of any thread sealant on the market today. What makes Real Tuff with PTFE a great product is that it can fill any crack or even the smallest [...]

The Hercules Megaloc Multi Purpose Thread Sealant is the preferred sealant of the professional plumber. The Megaloc Multi Purpose Thread Sealant is the highest performing sealant available on the market today. Megaloc is one of the easiest sealants to remove from your hands if accidentally spilled. It even comes off clothes too. This product from [...]

Donna Simpson is that lady from New Jersey who you have been hearing about all over the news as well as on the Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. She currently weighs a remarkable 600+ lbs and is on mission to not only to be the fattest women in the world but to also be …

The GE GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater is the new Hybrid Water Heater from GE. This heat pump water heater is more efficient than other water heaters and can offer a reduction in operating cost of up to 62%. The best part is that this new hybrid water heater is more effective than other models and [...]

Can I use CPVC cement on PVC is often asked by Do It Yourselfers on a number of plumbing help forums everyday and the short answer is NO! Just this morning I found an article to the contrary on a popular Do It Yourself website and it compelled me to write this article. Hopefully my [...]

Installing a water hammer device has been turned into an easy task that almost anybody who can operate an adjustable wrench and channel lock pliers can do. If banging pipes whenever the water shuts off to a certain fixture annoys you, installing a water hammer arrestor may help. Water hammer is caused by the momentum [...]

Fixing a Moen faucet leak is easy when you know how. If you don’t know how fixing a Moen single handle faucet can be your worst nightmare and even result in severe damage to the faucet by using improper cartridge removal techniques. There are three different single handle cartridges used in Moen faucets, the #1200 [...]

Repairing a shut off valve to a toilet while possible in some cases usually requires replacement of the valve. If the shut off valve still shuts off water to the toilet but is dripping from under the handle where the stem goes into the valve many times you can take two adjustable wrenches and with [...]

Repairing the classic Delta tub faucets and installing the rebuilt kit is easy however, there is one part of the process that can turn a relatively easy job into an expensive, difficult job. The ball design is a simple workhorse that offers a service life unmatched by any other mixing valve and is easy to [...]

Knowing when your pressure tank is bad is a very good thing to know when your home is on a well. The pressure tank serves as a water storage tank for the water the well pump sends up to your home. This allows the well pump to remain off for a longer period of time [...]

Working with copper tube is something that many plumbers and do it yourselfers do every day. All copper tube used in plumbing water supply lines is “Copper Tube Size” or, “CTS” and comes either in soft copper coils or, in rigid tube with “Type L” commonly used for water supply and “Type M” which is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]