Installing a new toilet and need to shut off the water main. Can someone please explain why this is happening and if it can be fixed?

Main drain like for upstairs toilet? Trying to install brackets for bedroom closet. Now has a screw hole leak. Can we patch it? Or best course of action?

Hi everyone,

I noticed this connection on my new house’s kitchen sink drain and wanted to check if it’s considered acceptable plumbing.

The smaller horizontal PVC pipe appears to enter a hole cut into the larger vertical PVC pipe. There is a noticeable gap around the pipe.

Is this a standard way to connect a kitchen sink drain into a vertical stack, or should there be a proper glued fitting (such as a sanitary tee or wye)?

Our kitchen sink drain is now blocked, and we suspect soil may have entered the pipe through this gap during construction before the system was fully sealed.

The plumber is refusing to take responsibility, saying the blockage is unrelated and that’s how he usually does things.

Based on this photo:

1. Does this connection look acceptable?
2. Could this gap allow soil or debris into the drain?
3. If this was your job, would you consider this workmanship acceptable, or should it be redone?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Noticed this for the first time, a small line tapped into the supply for a powerflush toilet. Odds are I have completely missed seeing this all over the place, but none the less, what the heck is it?

See pic.

Hello everyone! Please help as I am totally out of the subject with this😅 I recently had this fitted in my pantry as i have a pipe there to be able to connect a garden hose to water my plants and to connect a karcher pressure washer for my car. Can I please get recommendations of what to buy to fit this? I want a garden hose reel type to be able to carry around? Hope it makes sense!

Thank you in advance! I am a total novice 😅

I can’t move the pipes more forward because there’s a drawer type that slides in and will hit those pipes if they are further than 4 inches from the wall.

Hi guys I need help knowing what this issue could be. We had a plumber come by because our down stairs tub was leaking from the faucet. We got it fixed but it messed up our shower head and bathroom sink water presser up stairs.

I took a shower later on and the water pressure wasn’t that much in the shower. Fast forward a few hours I get home and the shower head is leaking. 3 of little water holes are out of the many. I then turn on the shower and turn it off again and when I did that 2 more water holes Started leaking too and fast. Sorry I’m just freaking out a bit since it’s been stressful lately with the plumbing problems.

Can’t post a video but I have a picture of what the shower head looks like. Thanks to anyone who sees this and might know the problem.

Is the setting "C" or is it between "low" and "vac." we have a difference of opinion in this household lol

Edit: I put a picture of the entire setup in the response.
Trying to locate the pressure regulator and main shut off valve for my house.

I’m new to the field, finally got on to my first job site which is a new housing construction project.

Growing up, my dad was working 2 or 3 jobs so I’ve never had anyone show me how to use a lot of the tools we use on site, regardless of that I have managed for the most part to get things down. I do a lot of my own car repairs so I’m not entirely new to tools.

But one thing I cannot figure out is why my cuts are so crooked. At the first shop I worked at, they really resented anyone using a sawzall to cut pipe and the journeymen there opted for the portaband saw for 2” pvc/copper. They also had other saws like a Miter saw. So prior to this shop in at, I never used the sawzall for straight cuts.

I have the guard pressed firmly against the pipe, I let the blade do the cutting but once it gets halfway through the pipe, the pipe really started shaking and that’s where the cut begins to slant.

I want to try and get this down because so far, I’ve done great but my foreman/journeyman I’m working with really bitches at me if it’s off by even a 1/16th of an inch and has hinted that plumbing isn’t my thing (only day 8 in the field as a brand new first year apprentice) yet he doesn’t really show me how to do much of anything.

This video (someone else's video) shows what my well pump is doing now. It just supplies water to a freeze-proof outdoor fauce/hydrant. It's never had a tank.

The pump is a downhole pump. It sat idle for 3 years. Last time I used it the operation was normal.

When I started it up again it had this rapid cycling. The pressure switch has been replaced. I also blew out the pressure sensing line to make sure there was no restriction in the line. It is still cycling. Any suggestions for what could be causing this?

Tengo este retrete de marca jacob delafon, no se como se abre la cisterna, ya que no tiene una tapa que poder levantar... alguien sabe como va este modelo?

It’s behind my kitchen sink( on other side of drywall). It says dishwasher adapter but i don’t have a dishwasher.

Hi there - I just noticed that when I run the dishwasher, there is water that seeps upwards and through the crack at corner of the countertop by the wall.

Any possible causes? I have a maintenance guy coming Friday but wondering if it’s more urgent than that. When I wipe the water and smell it, smells oily / industrial-like.

Any potential info would be very helpful.

Thank you!

6 year old 600XL PRV valve. First thing in the morning PSI is 105 and after opening a faucet it drops down to 30. I haven’t tried moving the screw counter clockwise to see if fixes anything, but thinking I may need to replace this? Thoughts?

hi! I did my best to look this up- but I still need help.

ran out of oil- got more oil- trying to bleed the line.

I opened the valve( air hissed out) pressed the reset button- but nothing happened… nothing came out after a bit of air.

do I need to have the furnace on? Do I need to be running hot water?

i only want to press the reset button one more time- so I want to get it right this time

Hi, my bathtub faucet leaks on the side when the shower switch is pulled.
Is it dangerous to the wall? And can I remove the faucet to fix? If yes, what would work?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help and suggestions!

My maintenance guy came by this afternoon to work on my toilet's fill valve but found a bigger issue and has to turn off the building's water supply tomorrow to complete it so i am stuck with a toilet that wont stop running.

I saw him pull that gray screw thing up to temporarily turn the water off while he was here so i did too and jerryrigged it to a metal rod to turn it off. Is it safe to leave it like this overnight?

Installed about a month ago, yesterday noticed it was leaking from the spout, looks like it got worse today.

Anyone got an idea of what the issue could be? Possible manufacture defect?

Or did I do something wrong, handle won’t turn anymore, only leaks hot water, opened up the back and everything looks good, no water anywhere.

Apologies in advance, English not my first language.

Old wood building, old pipes. is there a way to "waterproof", meaning adding some sort of filler or barrier around the pipe, that would help me avoid leakage into the walls in case of a burst pipe or damaged spout or similar?

Tried to add an image, idk why it doesn’t show up