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  1. Plumbing
    Hello All, About 2 weeks ago our hot water started getting less and less hot, now it is completely cold. If I turn the cold angle stop off at the sink, so only the hot water line can feed the faucet, and turn it on, water flows. If I turn it to the completely hot setting water flows, but if...
  2. Plumbing
    Hello, I need to insulate my cold water pipes in my attic. I have seen some older posts regarding this and I wanted to know what is the latest on the available products. A friend of mine suggested I use Rubatex and he said to get the type that will glue to the pipe. What I want is the best...
  3. Plumbing
    My Guest shower will not get hot or even lukewarm but the master shower and all the faucets in the house do. It wasn't always like that, the shower head shot off one day and ever since the plumber came to fix it there has been no hot water in that shower. I keep reading that this could be...
  4. Plumbing
    I just replaced my 50 gallon gas water heater with a new GE 50 gallon gas water heater. I had to turn the thermostat all the way up. When I start a shower, the water is nice and hot. Less than 2 minutes into the shower, the water slowly gets cooler and I have to shut off the cold valve...
  5. Plumbing
    We bought a new fancy energy efficient Whirlpool washer. Our problem is we are renting a previously Amish house. They used a tub sink and ringer washer. We have a regular faucet on the tub sink. Currently only the hot works. But because the washer is so fancy with all its sensors it needs hot...
  6. Plumbing
    I am currently pulling my guest house off grid. I want to run hot water from a solar thermosiphon system but not yet. In the interim, I want to run cold water only through our home. I pulled the electric hot water heater off the system left the feed line to it simply "cut" hanging out in...
  7. Plumbing
    I have a brand new kitchen about 6 months old. All new plumbing was put in. Kitchen sink was brand new also. Temps have been between 35 to 65 degrees the past week. Everything has worked fine every day for the past six months. Went out of town for 7 days. Came home and the cold water does...
  8. Plumbing
    So here's the situation: We recently purchased a small condo in a high rise building in downtown San Diego. The building is about 5 yrs. old. To the best of my knowledge, we don't have a separate water heater--but we do have a heat exchanger for our air conditioning/heating in the unit--and I'm...
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