If you own a manufactured home or really any home from the 80’s or early 90’s, your home may have the gray plastic waterlines called polybutylene (PB). Due to some shortcomings in the PB, it is no longer made and has been replaced with PEX. …
If your bathtub is filling up with waste water when you run water down any nearby drain, most likely you have a frozen sewer pipe, also known as waste lines, especially if your temperatures have been consistently cold. If you …
Mobile home water damage is a common problem and can quickly cause significant damage and come with big out-of-pocket expenses. It’s important to take the necessary steps to minimize water damage in your mobile home, and in the event of …
Winter is a season that comes with many challenges, this is especially true if you own a mobile home. Cold weather can damage plumbing, cause leaks, and for some lead to the formation of mold if not repaired properly. This …
Do you have troubles with smelly or stinky hot water? If so, the problem exists with your water heater and occurs mainly in homes supplied by a well. In a nutshell, you’ve got smelly hydrogen sulfide gas in your water …
Hot water is essential in any household – let alone a mobile home – for the likes of bathing, cleaning and properly disinfecting. In single-family homes and mobile home units, water is heated and dispersed to faucets and shower heads by a …
So how many times have you fixed your kitchen drain only to find out it still leaks? How many times have you bought parts only to discover that they don’t quite fit? Or maybe your installing a new kitchen sink …
If you’ve priced a new manufactured home gas water heater lately, you’ve discovered that sealed combustion units cost over $675 WITHOUT installation. Are gas water heaters still the way to go? In my opinion the answer is ‘NO’. Water heater …
As a general rule, replacing a bathtub is NOT considered a do-it-yourself project — especially if you are changing the type and size of the tub. Changing anything means refiguring the drain lines, vents, and waterlines and that can get …
Worried about a frozen waterline? Take the worry out of your heat tape failing with this freeze alarm. A probe attaches to your main waterline and the control panel inside your home will beep if the temperature drops below 37 …
Use inexpensive tools for proper crimps of rings on pex tubing. If you’d like to be able to repair your own pex plumbing but can’t justify the expense of a $100+ pex crimping tool, then the pocket pex crimper may …
Most everything you need to replace your 27×54 bathtub and surround. Kit includes the following: • 27×54 ABS plastic bathtub. • 5-piece plastic shower surround. • Pack of 25 plastic rivets. • Drain kit. • 2 Tubes of liquid nails …
8 inch offset tub faucet. This faucet is made of bright chrome-looking plastic and will replace similar tub faucets with an offset shower connection. To determine if your faucet is 8 inches, measure from the middle of the left knob …