Friday, August 6th, 2010
It's the most popular seat in the house, but the toilet in my main floor bathroom was a mess. The tank cover was chipped up, it used obscene amounts of water to flush, and--despite my repair attempts--it often needed the handle jiggled to stop the tank fill.
So I decided it ...
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
It used to be that the only way to make an antique toilet use less water was to put a brick or two in the tank. It's a nice idea, but sometimes the old toilets don't work as well with a smaller flush volume than they were designed for. And ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
In my last post I described the repair I made to the shower valve in the main bath. As part of that process I accessed the bathroom plumbing chase for the first time. What I found there added some interesting information about the house's past.
The first thing I noticed was ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
A little while back, I was experiencing signs of a worn out valve in my main floor tub/shower. The knob was getting difficult to turn and soon I started noticing evidence of a small leak that was damaging the ceiling of the basement below the valve.
I opened up as ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Last year it was the pipes in the master bath on the top floor. Now the water pipes to the kitchen sink and dishwasher froze up after a string of days with below 0 degree F temperatures.
Placed over the tuck-under garage, the kitchen is always the coldest room on the ...
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