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DIY Plumbing

Do It Yourself plumbing projects that won’t break the bank (or flood your basement)!

How To Remove A Toilet

Removing An Old Toilet

Most bathroom remodeling projects require you to remove and replace most of features in the bathroom during the renovation process. That means that if you’re putting down new floors, painting the walls or replacing fixtures you’re almost definitely going to have to remove the toilet and then reinstall the same toilet or a new...
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How To Replace A Shower Head

Removing The Old Shower Head

Replacing an old shower head in the bathroom is one of the easiest, quickest and cheapest ways you can give your bathroom a whole new look and feel.  You might also want to replace your shower head if you find that it’s starting to leak or if the water spraying out of them is...
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How To Replace A Leaky or Old Water Valve

Removing a home water valve.

Below almost every sink and toilet in your home there should be one or two little knobs attached to the pipes coming out of the walls. These are shut-off valves for the water supply to your bathroom and kitchen. You probably go years without thinking of them until the one day when you actually...
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The Case of the Mysterious Basement Leak

Basement leak coming from roof.

It was while I was in the middle of framing and insulating my basement that I first found the mysterious leak in my basement. One sunny day I was happily putting up steel framing and when I returned the next rainy day I found a pie-plate sized puddle forming right where the basement foundation...
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How To Repair a Shower Valve (With Photos)

How To Repair a Shower Valve (With Photos)

Repairing a shower valve is one of those home repairs that most homeowners find they need to do every few years, depending on a number of factors including how many people use the shower, your faucet brand and even what type of water you have in your home. Whether you have a single handle...
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How To Remove A Stuck Shower Knob or Faucet Handle

Special Valve Wrench for removing shower knobs

Over the past couple years I’ve removed and replaced every shower knob and bathroom and kitchen faucet in my 50 year old home. I’m not a plumber but I’ve watched and learned from some professional plumbers and I’ve done just enough basic plumbing work around my house that I’m beginning to get a feel...
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Stop Wasting Water By Fixing These Common Bathroom Leaks

Stop Wasting Water By Fixing These Common Bathroom Leaks

If you want to help the environment by saving water and save yourself some money then you should consider checking all your bathroom fixtures for leaks. If they do leak then you’ll want to repair those leaks as quickly as possible. This is one home improvement project that just about anyone can get a...
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Toilet Keeps Running? Replace the Flapper!

Replacing a toilet flapper is fairly easy.

If the water in your toilet is running intermittently or if it sounds like the water in your toilet won’t stop running, then the most obvious cause is almost always the toilet flapper. I had this happen to me recently and thought I’d explain how I fixed it. The more a toilet runs when...
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How To Replace a Shower Diverter Valve

How To Replace a Shower Diverter Valve

I have a combination bathtub and shower and over the past three months or so I noticed that whenever I turned the knob to “shower” I still had a fair amount of water coming out of the tub faucet. Basically, water was leaking from the shower valve and coming out my tub faucet. My...
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Learn From My Plumbing Mistake: Don’t Pay $133.75 For A Tiny Rubber Washer

A Plumbing DIY Mistake

Last night we ran a bath for our son and when I turned off the hot water a strange thing happened: the hot water did not turn off. I twisted and pushed and turned, but no matter what I did with the 40 year old shower faucet, the hot water kept running out as...
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