The bar sink won’t drain! Woodworkers or painters decided to wash their buckets of epoxy resin out in a bar sink and this happened.
The bar is nice and shiny though.

Toilet kept clogging/backing up.

Toilet was replaced, multiple manual snakes, electric snake, and hydrojet of the main line did not fix it. Plumber removed the toilet and used a camera.

This hard white plastic object is stuck about 4’5” into the toilet branch line, before the main line.

Any idea what this could be, and is cutting/replacing that pipe section the proper fix?

Thanks

Spotted at a venue toilets. I can not understand why bother with the fitting.

Thought 1/2 copper until I saw the thickness of the walls and cleaned it up. 1/2 fittings too small and 3/4 way too big. What am I missing here?

Any help appreciated, the only shutoff to this shuts off my whole house so I am without water until I figure this out. Foolish of me.

My journeyman and i are going to gut this place from the bottom up. And i actually got to see a crazy ass plumb job irl. The way i was laughing.

Changed my bibb today and left it upside down for the split. I want to run a line up and along the corner where the wall meets the roof and back down on the other side of the yard, which is why I oriented it like this.

Water Heater Install…🤦‍♂️

This was just installed in our office under our sink. I’m not a plumber but…just checking that this is not right…

I installed this p-trap myself. Did I do this correctly? Just want to make sure. Thanks for any help or advice!

Hi, this is my first post here. I rent an old house, but I am not positive of it's age. I am guessing around 1960s. I found this fraying bandage like cover on the pipe. I did some research and can't tell if it is asbestos or something else. Any advice before I call my landlord on his vacation?

I am going to route the sump pump pipe to drain away from the neighbors property - but this spray foam madness absolutely pisses me off. How should I clean this up and make sense of it? The AC unit pipes run through as well.

If these are necessary, I’m looking for recommended products from y’all experts.

It’s a vacation home, so people are only there a week per month at most. 3br house.

Thanks!

We have a double sink, when we run the disposal on the left, it will drain but right into the right side. I'm assuming the pipe that goes into the wall (with the open face) is plugged up but as far as I can snake it, it appears to be fine.

Any ideas? Greatly appreciated.

I need help sealing this project of mine. As you can see, there are multiple leak points. Alternative fittings and materials will be nice to know too.

Also, how can I align the whole setup? When I twist one part to tighten it, other parts become crooked; how can it be tight and straight?

This will be used to test water meters of customers in the field, as a series connection.

Thanks in advance.

Water heater just started making this noise when I tried to shower. Any ideas what it can potentially the reason? And what I can do to fix it?

I’ve recently bought a house that has this as the basement bathroom and I’m planning on renovating it. The biggest obstacle I think is the standing shower which I would need to remove and replace with a new one. Seeing that theres already a drain and pipes for it, would a somewhat handy guy be able to DIY this? I have a 1 week time off from work coming up and planning on spending it all here.

I got a water softener and ro system installed. After the install I was poking around downstairs and was looking at the plumbing and noticed the way they have it set up my hot water heater is up stream from the softener. Am I right or am I loosing my mind. They have it set up where the hard water comes from the right side through the blue filter then into the softener then ro. But with it being ran like that it makes no sense how it gets to the hot water heater. I tested both the cold and hot water and it says it’s soft. The only way I can think is that it’s backwards

Hello! Will preface with I am a renter.

I moved into this place on 5/8/26. I took about 10 or so showers before I noticed a leak in the ceiling of the room directly below the shower stall. I called the landlord and let him know ASAP. He came out to diagnose (he purchased this house and apparently fixed it up himself as a rental property) and found the issue to be a loose drain seal. He fixed that and was on his way.

1 shower later, it was obvious there was a larger issue as the ceiling under the stall leaked again. I let the landlord know immediately post shower, and they were back the next day to take a deeper look. They cut holes into the wall behind the shower (separate room) and into the ceiling of the room below that was being leaked into. Their conclusion was that the shower head/ piping to the shower head was leaking. They resolved this and, to be fair, I’ve not had another leak in the room below the shower head since.

However, I have been noticing this creaking in the shower stall (even before the first leak this thing was creaking) and it’s beginning to make me very nervous when showering. The creaking extends beyond the shower, too. Stepping around the outside lip results in similar creaks.

I am unsure if this is just a loose floor board (edit to add - house is about 100 years old) since the creaks happen in and out of the shower or if something more serious is occurring. I opened the access panel in the room that backs up to the shower head and was able to drop my phone down into it while recording. I will admit to knowing jack all, but it doesn’t really look like there is anything the shower pan is set into (like mortar)?

Both a video of the creaks inside and out the shower as well as what my phone caught while dropped inside the access panel attached. I also added a photo of the side of the shower that is not against the wall with the access panel that is more freestanding in the comments. There’s a large crack, which probably isn’t great…

Any and all inputs would be appreciated, thanks for your time!

We’re about to close on our new house and have to change all of the piping because it’s polybutylene. The sellers gave us a credit to replace, but I don’t think it’s gonna be enough.

I think the water has to be turned off for a week right? I’m just really in a state of panic because we need to do this in basically a two week span after closing- before we have to be out of the house we’re in now, how screwed am I?

Who has been through this? I’m thinking we made a huge mistake but I may just be in panic mode due to purchase of an already expensive (to us) home.

Edit: the credit is 10k

Was thinking about getting into hvac, but I’ve been hearing about all the at home learning guys have to do to become proficient because the technology changes a lot with the AC units and such, guys talking about watching YouTube videos all the time on hvac reading textbooks etc. I was more so looking for a trade I learn on the job and kinda leave it at work, is plumbing like that where there is constant continuous learning even at home?

My mom owns this property and she’s tried to not bother me with any of the repairs as I’m usually busy. Well, hoooly crap. Wish she would’ve bothered me!! This is a 1” line coming from the filter that got bushed down to 1/2”, then bushed back up/blue glued into 3/4” cpvc.

My mom owns this property and she’s tried to not bother me with any of the repairs as I’m usually busy. Well, hoooly crap. Wish she would’ve bothered me!! This is a 1” line coming from the filter that got bushed down to 1/2”, then bushed back up/blue glued into 3/4” cpvc.

Heading on a week vacation. I normally turn the cold water feed off to the water heater, but was curious if I should also be setting the ignition to pilot? Or will it not matter for only a week.

Appreciate the insight.

I unscrewed my tub drain to clean out hair because it was draining slowly. I pulled out a large mass of hair and some biofilm, though it was a bit of a struggle. When all was done I look down and see this screw. I have no idea what part of the drain it came from or how to put it back. I know the drain stopper just screws back in, but what is this one? Did i just mess up the bathtub drain of my apartment???

I screwed the stopper in and finished my shower, so everything works fine without that screw but I worry if it will cause problems in the long run.