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 is why winterizing your mobile …
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 …
Your faucet drips or leaks, so time to repair or replace it. Yet the only water shut-off is located underneath the home. “What a pain,” you say to yourself. Next time avoid the hassles by installing separate shut-offs to each …
As the name implies, a solar water heating system uses the power of the sun to produce hot water in a home, either by directly warming the water or via an intermediary fluid. A direct system pumps water to the …
Plumbing in a manufactured home can be quite different than plumbing in a site-built home. In fact different enough that plumbers in many areas will not work on mobile homes. Today’s plumbing in manufactured homes can be described as ‘on …