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New Bathroom

Plumbing Care — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:12:36 +0000

Are you a homeowner who is thinking about having a new bathroom? If so, there is a good chance that you will thoroughly examine your decision to do so, before taking any action. When investigating bathroom remodeling, you will find that there are a number of advantages and disadvantages to doing so. If you are like many other homeowners in your situation, you may be wondering what the upside to remodeling your bathroom is, in other words, you may be wondering what the pros are.

Remodelling

When it comes to bathroom remodeling to create a new bathroom, you will find that are a number of different options. In fact, that is why so many homeowners end up making the decision to remodel their bathrooms. One of the biggest pros to remodeling your bathroom is how your new bathroom will look. Two of the most common reasons for bathroom remodeling include unhappiness with the current room and unsafe bathrooms. If you are unhappy with the current state of your bathroom, a remodeling project may help to change that. Whether you only choose to remodel a portion of your bathroom or if you make the decision to remodel every inch of it, you will likely be pleased with your decision to do so.

Choices

The choices that you have are another one of the pros to remodeling your bathroom. As a homeowner, you have complete control of your home, as well as a bathroom remodeling project. For instance, if you were looking to remodel your home, but you were on a limited budget, you could decide which particular parts of your bathroom that you would like remodeled, such as the bathtub. If money is not an issue, you may even make the decision to remodel your whole bathroom including toilet, sink and shower. In addition to deciding what parts of your bathroom you would like remodeled, you will also have complete control over the products and materials used. For instance, if you wish to replace your bathroom toilet, you would be able to choose your own replacement; thus likely resulting in the bathroom of your dreams.

Another one of the many pros to bathroom remodeling is that it is relatively easy to do. This also has something to do with the above mentioned choices. If you have prior home improvement experience, you may prefer to remodel your own bathroom. Doing so will not only ensure that your bathroom turns out exactly the way that you wanted it to, but you may also save yourself money.

Professional help

Although you can save yourself money by doing your own remodeling, you may not want to or you may be unable to do so. If that is the case, you still have a choice. That choice is seeking assistance from a professional plumber. Despite increasing the costs, your bathroom will be remodeled professionally and often in less time.

Increase your home’s value

It is also important to mention that bathroom remodeling projects can help to increase a home’s value if completed to a professional standard. That is one of the biggest pros to having your bathroom remodeled. The increase in value, if there is one, will depend on a number of different factors. Those factors include what type of remodeling is done, as well as how it is done. Whether you choose to hire the services of a professional bathroom remodeling expert or if you have prior home improvement experience, the decision to remodel your bathroom could increase the value of your home. At this point it is worth noting that you do not want a DIY disaster as, in addition to the disruption, this will possibly decrease the market value of your home.

When it comes to deciding whether or not you want to remodel your bathroom and who will do it, you will have to make up your own mind; however, when doing so you may want to keep the above mentioned points in mind.

If you want professional help Dyno Plumbing have a plumbing installation service with fixed price work and no call out charge.

Radiator Problems

Plumbing Care — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:48:58 +0000

If you have a problem with one or more radiators in your home there are some investigative actions you take before calling in assistance from your home emergency plan company, or telephoning the local emergency plumber if you have not taken out a plan in advance.

The actions that you take will depend upon whether the is one or there are several radiators effected.

Radiators are cool in one area of the home

If your central heating system is divided into several heating areas one of these could have a problem which would then impact several radiators. The heating zones are often used to set different temperatures in one area of your home from those in another area.

If this is the case the first cause could be that the zone is set to ‘off’ or that you have a heating timer on this area and it has not yet switched ‘on’ that heating zone. Timers are electrical mechanical items and can be faulty or have a discharged battery or broken fuse.

An alternative cause of this problem is that the heating zone valve is faulty or locked into the off position. This is a more complex task and will require a plumber to be brought in to drain the system and replace the valve.

One radiator is cold

If you check and your other radiators are functioning correctly then this suggests that the problem is with this one radiator only.

You should check whether any of the radiator valves are switched off

Is the radiator valve open or has it been closed. You can test this by moving the valve in an anti clockwise manner to open it
Is the lockshield valve closed. Less likely but this is the valve on the other end of the radiator and it may have been closed if some work was done on the radiator. Again try to open it and see if the water flow commences.
Is the thermostatic radiator valve (TRV) set at a low temperature. If the valve temperature has been set low then the valve will switch off the radiator at a normal room temperature. To set move the temperature to a high setting.
Some of the valves are blocked. Scale in your system may have blocked the valves. Cleansing the system may clear this otherwise a plumber will need to clean or replace the valve.

Part of a radiator is cold

If the top is cold the radiator may need bleeding which is a task that the competent DIY person can complete.

If the bottom is cold then the radiator may have a build up of scale in the bottom preventing water flow. You will need to descale the radiator and there are chemicals you can buy to do this.

The center of the radiator is cold. This again could be caused by radiator scale and the radiator will need to be flushed with a power flush.

All radiators are cold

If you look at your boiler and it appears to be working this problem would suggest that the available hot water is not reaching the radiators.

The first culprit could be that the central heating pump is faulty. Alternatively the system thermostat or the room thermostat could be at fault. This will require a plumber or heating engineer to assist you.

You may be lucky that the cause is your central heating timer. Have the clocks moved forward or backwards and perhaps you have not adjusted the timer, or you did adjust it but by the wrong amount. Check that the timer has triggered the heating.

Banging noises from a radiator or from several radiators

There could be several reasons why there is banging (possibly coming from the boiler).

The boiler thermostat may be set high or be faulty creating a high hot water temperature. This can be tested by turning down the boiler thermostat (not the room thermostat).
Lack of water pressure in the heating system. This can happen if the mains supply has stopped or the expansion tank has run dry with a cistern valve which has seized closed. Look at the pressure valve on the boiler if you have one, is this within the recommended settings for your boiler? If you try to investigate the problem and cure it yourself you should first switch off the heating and then test the components listed above
Scale in the radiators. Build up of contaminants and scale can cause hot water to release any gases it is containing as the gases crystallise on any impurities, as bubbles form on the glass imperfections in a bottle of fizzy drink.

Access floor plumbing

Plumbing Care — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:45:34 +0000

We have a house that was built in 1900s and a bedroom was made into the bathroom.

The plumbing is in the floor.

Plywood was screwed around the plumbing as an access door and then carpet was placed over it – of course the carpet got moldy after many, many years. Now we want to place ceramic tile in the bathroom – how can we still get access to the plumbing easily if something goes wrong and there is tile there?

I want to think you can do a tile an access panel that can be removable but would it leak if it got wet? Help!

Copper plumbing

Plumbing Care — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:20:16 +0000

I have a friend who has a home that has copper plumbing. The residence was built in 1988, and she was told by a neighbor that copper plumbing is bad and has to be removed/replaced in order to keep the value of the home for resale. This doesn’t seem to make sense and the home DOES NOT have any plumbing issues to date. The neighbor cautioned that copper plumbing can burst. Is there any ring of truth to this or is the neighbor thinking of something else. A home built in 1988 doesn’t seem that old to me.
Please help. All answers are welcome. Thanks.
Additional details. Here is the suspected issue:

Different metals or types of pipe: copper and galvanized iron, were directly connected in the potable water supply system

From this point of view, we are told the entire plumbing in the home needs to be changed. Can this be right?

Stop plumbing rattling

Plumbing Care — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:20:18 +0000

When my dishwasher is turned on, the house plumbing in the vicinity rattles violently.

Turning on the nearby kitchen faucet attenuates the rattling slightly. The dishwasher is hooked up to the HOT water supply.

This does not occur anywhere else except in a bathroom where the COLD water faucet caused some juddering when opened fully.

Does anyone know how I could sole this or a good company to call in, unfortunately I did not take out plumbing insurance

Are there any permits needed to have plumbing restored in a house?

Plumbing Care — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:09:35 +0000

If plumbing was originally in a house but was tore out for scrap (including the hot water tank) do I need any permits to have it reinstalled? Are there any codes (Ohio) that say what type of heating needs to be used? Are plug in electric heaters allowed for main heating source in most places? The building inspector is coming out to inspect the electric since it has been off over a year. Just wondering if he is going to make me make any changes or get any other permits.

How do I get rid of another competing plumbing contractor without doing anything illegal?

Plumbing Care — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:37:27 +0000

I am currently using Service Magic, a lead service for plumbing leads, now another local contractor has joined. What this means is that now I have to compete with them on leads that we both pay for but only one gets.

Any Ideas that are not illegal?

How to work on plumbing and electrical in a non basement house ?

Plumbing Care — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:38:06 +0000

I am a pretty good DIY plumber and an okay DIY electrician. However, in every home where I had to do the work always had a basement or crawl space. I am getting ready to buy a house without either and my question is:

How do you access the plumbing and electrical if you can’t get to it from the basement. I know it’s in the walls and I will probably have to cut sheet rock to get to it. But I guess what I’m really asking is how do you detect where the exact problem is? Whether it be a leaky pipe or running an extra outlet.

I guess I will have to access wiring from the attic but still not sure about plumbing.

Thanks.

What information is needed in order to get an estimate on plumbing cost?

Plumbing Care — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:14:36 +0000

I am looking to buy a property, mobile home on land.

All it needs is new plumbing work, it used to have it but no longer does after its been sitting

What all information do I need to call to get estimates on how much it will cost for plumbing? I cannot have somebody go out there since it is in the middle of no where and I do not own it yet…..

I checked everything else it only needs plumbing

How do you prevent plumbing clogs while saving energy and water?

Plumbing Care — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:58:23 +0000

I am trying to do my part to save water and energy by using cold water whenever I can for laundry, washing dishes and hands, etc. I also try to prevent wasting water by not letting the sink and bathtub run, and have installed a tankless water heater for near instant hot water. The problem is that my plumbing frequently backs up due to buildup of soap/shampoo/laundry detergent/dishwashing detergent. I’ve read that flushing the plumbing once a month with large volumes of hot water will help prevent/treat this problem, but that goes against my principles of trying to save energy and water. Does anyone have good ideas for preventing plumbing clogs from soap/detergent buildup, without wasting a lot of energy or water?