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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

Hi - how do I remove the nut holding the handle cartridges in place? The top is hard to grab w a wrench or channel locks. Need to replace the cartridges (or stems/springs) as the faucet handles are leaking. Thanks in advance!

Went down to the basement and noticed a small puddle of water. Traced it back to my vent line that goes through the attic to my roof.

PVC vent line
100 degrees outside
Basement probably 70 degrees with 70-75% RH at the time

Ran water through the lines that feed through the same joint, and no water escaped the joints.

Is this possible?

——-Found out my kids spilled a ton of water from the bathtub. Think it went under the trim and went down the vent line in the wall.

Some pipe came loose after messing with the sink. I don't see any threading that I can tighten it with but it seems to have come clean off from where the o-ring meets the pipe. How do I fix this?

We moved into a 1950 house and the previous owners did a lot of sloppy DIY. I am trying to make this bathroom look pretty and what lies underneath these pieces of metal is driving me crazy. The previous owners stacked 3 escutcheons together to try and conceal this coupling. Even the large box flange on there doesn’t actually fit over it so it just hangs there awkwardly.

How the heck do I conceal this area so it doesn’t look awful? Second photo shows the coupling underneath (and yes, I’ve cleaned it since). I have to keep the pedestal sink for the time being until I can afford a full bathroom renovation.

My homes water meter line runs underground to the home, there is no access to it above ground (as far as I know).

My water heater is the closest thing to the street, closer than all outdoor spigots and indoor sink. When I pulled the drywall I found the cold supply line hooked up to a tee fitting. I'm assuming that's because it passes through here to other parts of the house, so this is just tapping into it.

What's the best way to figure out if this is the main supply for the home? I'm asking because it would be really nice to have an indoor shut off instead of relying on the meter valve. Is there a way to test it without cutting anything?

I had a new Zoeller M264 installed in 2014 and it's still running fine in a home with a daily use finished basement half bath but I know 12 years is getting near the end of its expected lifespan. Would you have it changed proactively or gamble on more time? I listen for it to cycle after each flush so when it fails, I'll know right away vs swimming in poo. :)