A property manager calls a plumber because the third floor has no hot water. The plumber spends four minutes looking for a shutoff that isolates only that branch, finds a gate valve whose handwheel h...
A maintenance technician calls about a half-inch brass fitting that has been weeping at the joint for three weeks. The fitting is not the problem. In most cases like this, an NPT thread has been scre...
Before you buy a single fitting for a PEX plumbing system, you have to decide which PEX type you are installing. The difference between PEX A and PEX B fittings is not a cosmetic label. It drives the...
If you have ever seen a PEX fitting leak after a system is under pressure, the cause is rarely the brass fitting itself. More often, the pipe was not prepared correctly, or the connector was not seat...
On a commercial retrofit, the cold-water supply line had a failed ball valve that was buried behind a new wall. There was no room to cut the pipe back and thread a new fitting. In that exact situatio...
Flush a toilet and, a few seconds later, the cistern falls silent again. That brief hiss followed by a clean stop is the entire operating cycle of a ballcock valve, a design that has been doing the s...
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