Replacing faucet washers is an easy task that can make an old faucet work like new again. First you need to know if your faucet has washers, many of today’s faucets are washerless designs. A faucet that has washers will often turn several times to open or close and will not have a hard [...]

Checking the bladder in your well tank is important if your well pump is running frequently with only a small amount of water being used. The well tank is used to store water for use between pumping cycles. When the well pressure tank is not working properly the pump will run frequently on short cycles [...]

With a water heater when it is heating the water there will be some expansion, which in a closed system will increase the pressure and cause the T&P Valve on the water heater to discharge. One of the functions of the T&P Valve is to open as a safety mechanism when the pressure in [...]

Inside the home there are a number of places where the septic system odor could be coming from. The most common place is from a leaking wax ring under a toilet, this is the weakest joint in the entire DWV system and is the most likely joint to leak. If a toilet is loose [...]

Cleaning a faucet aerator is an easy task to perform. Frequently people wonder why the pressure is low at one faucet while all the other are flowing well or, the water stream may come out of the faucet at an angle or be in several small hard streams that splash up out of the [...]

The only way to repair a frost proof faucet or, sillcock that has been split from freezing is to replace it with a new one. The tube that has split is an integral part of the valve and is not replaceable. The frost proof sillcocks are designed with an end that can be threaded [...]

A simple rule of thumb is that if you didn’t eat it or, drink it, it doesn’t belong in the sewer. The one exception is toilet paper and even then if you use a toilet paper such as the good old single ply toilet paper you have reduced your chances even further. There are [...]

Changing a Moen single handle sink faucet cartridge in many cases is quite easy though hard water conditions can make it very difficult. There is typically a cover on the knob or lever that when it is pried off with a knife-edge exposes a Phillips Screw underneath. Once the handle is of there is [...]

Repairing Delta sink faucets is an easy job that most people can easily handle. The single handle Delta faucets use a ball valve with spring-loaded rubber seats pressing against a ball with holes in it that control the flow of water by which hole(s) and how much of the hole(s) are lined up with [...]

When a toilet clogs there are a few things you can try to unclog the toilet, and a few things that people often try that you should never do. Most of the time a toilet can be unclogged with a few strokes of a plunger or, a quick trip of toilet auger through the [...]