If you are thinking of remodeling your bathroom and redoing or adding showers to them, consider all of your choices. The age we live in has allowed us many choices in what we want in our homes. We can choose from high end, high quality items to comfortable old favorites. When looking to redo or …

(Step 1) Remove the toilet. To do this: shut off the water supply, flush the toilet, siphon any excess water into the tub or a pail, disconnect the water supply, remove the bolts connecting the tank to the bowl, remove the tank, loosen the nuts at the base and remove the bowl.
(Step 2)…

You’ve already cleaned up the area and gotten it all prepped and assembled your toilet. You want to take the toilet bolts and slide them into the hole right here and put them on the side to where they’re just about lined up with each other. Right there. It doesn’t matter, they’ll turn, but they will…

Although the stoppers in sinks and baths look similar from the outside, the mechanisms hidden within the drains are somewhat different.

You raise and lower sink pop-ups with a knob usually located near a faucet handle.

The knob is actually the head of a lift rod fastened to a clevis, a connect…

A compression faucet, common particularly in older homes, has a washer or seal that cuts off the water flow by closing against a valve when the faucet is turned off. These tend to drip from the spout when the washers wear out.

With compression faucets, hot and cold are controlled with two separat…

The drains in our sinks and tubs leads to a largely concealed system of pipes, traps, and cleanouts. Most drains will lead to a trap that keeps waste from washing back up the pipes. These pipes lead, in turn, to branch drains, which connect to the main drain into a sewer or septic system.

If you’…

Reach into the tank and reseat the tank stopper in the flush valve;

*Try bending the float arm down or away from the tank wall;

*Replace the float ball; it may have filled with water;

*After draining the tank, scour or replace a corroded flush valve seat;

*Replace the tank-fill tube if i…

Several different types of mechanisms are used to accomplish a toilet’s basic operation-to flood the bowl with enough water to flush waste down the drain and then refill the tank and bowl with fresh water.
Here is how the most common mechanism works. When you flush the toilet, the handle lifts and…

If one of your toilets has seen better days–or you simply want to update it with a model that is more stylish and efficient–you’ll be glad to know that replacing a toilet is an afternoon project. However, if you plan to install a toilet in a new location, you will have to extend supply pipes and d…

It is now September. The kids are going back to school. The football season has begun. The nights have gotten a bit chillier, and the days are not as hot. The price of energy to heat your home is up there It is time for you to see how much money you might save.

You should begin by conducting a…