Mobile Home Plumbing

Ways to Winterize a Mobile Home Top to Bottom

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 …

How to Fix Smelly Hot Water

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 …

How to Remove & Fix a Kitchen Sink Drain

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 …

Convert Gas Water Heater into Electric

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 …

Replace or Repair a Mobile Home Bathtub

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 …

Water line Freeze Alarm

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 …

How to Use Pex Crimping Tools

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 …

Bath Tub Kit with Shower Surround

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 …

Replacing Mobile Home 8″ Bathtub Faucet

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 …