Most of the time I try to be concious of how much water I am using when I am shaving or showering, but sometimes I forget. Well here’s a product for those of us that are green concious and know there will be a water shortage sooner or later. The iSAVE, is an LED display for faucets and […]
Author is: Merle Henkenius.
A very thorough, well organized, readable how-to guide that will help you through virtually any plumbing challenge. Filled with color photos and illustrations, it teaches basic technique, tool use, and provides instructions based on current plumbing codes. It even instructs you in soldering techniques. I mentioned well-organized: Flow charts are also included which are easy to follow. What […]
This kit is one of those ‘as seen on TV′ ads, promoted as a must have set with everything you need for quick home plumbing repairs. Includes tube bender, pipe cutter, tube flaring kit, 10ft flexible drain cleaner, 97 pc valve repair kit, thread sealing tape, groove joint pliers, tap reseater and U-shape clamp, all packed in […]
Well I have traveled in Europe and Asia quite a bit so I don’t look cross-eyed at gadgets like this. Kohler has jumped into the bidet business with its ʡ series toilet seats, using a special “hydra-cleansing wand″ (pictured at left) to give you a hands-free alternative to toilet paper.
The ʡ-200 model ($1300, pictured on the toilet […]
There are so many different types of pipe wrenches. There are the Straight Pipe Wrench, the End Pipe Wrench and the Heavy Duty Offset Pipe Wrench. Straight pipe wrenches come in many different sizes they range from ¾ inch pipe capacity to 8 inches. These wrenches are used on small little jobs or they can […]
Many Of you know that I worked on swimming pools for many years and I pretty much did everything and anything that was required by the boss or the customer.
Most of the time I was always doing a lot of plumbing and that required me to bring my handy dandy pipe wrench along with me […]
The other day I had to go down to a local building and inspect all the steam traps to make sure that everything will work right when the winter and the heating season once begins again.
So I went to my truck and got my pipe wrench and a few other tools just in case I […]
We got a call from this one customer who needed us to come to her house and install some new baseboard heat for he in several rooms,
She told us that there would be a lot of old pine furniture that we would have to move first in order to be able to access the areas […]
So I had been working at this plumbing shop for about 10 years when my boss came to me and told me that he wanted to start investing in some Spanish Property in the next few months and wanted to know if I would travel with him all over the world and do plumbing jobs.
This […]
Did you ever look at your plumber, steamfitter, or pool guy like they were a dirty son of a gun? Well, they are, but you should be nice to them, and here are some reasons why… An Extra Something for the Plumber and it’s not his crack… We have all heard about the “plumber’s crack” […]
I used to be a plumber and now I am a webmaster reviewing and talking about all kinds of things on the web!