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Would that cause problems at other fixtures in the same bathroom? MY tenant's shower panel has a hot/cold temp dial. Set it and forget it. And the panel has a shower wand in addition to the overhead sprayer.

Started emailing some other owners on my unit's floor and the floor above. 1. One guy has the opposite problem. Not enough hot water. 2. Another guy has a loss of hot water pressure. Building manager is going to be furious at me playing detective. I love it. There's no way 4 of my mixers...

My rental condo unit's master bathroom is getting very little cold water and then no cold water at all in the mornings (6-7am). So basically hot water coming out of the fixtures. This happens at all 4 fixtures. 2 sinks, a shower and a bathtub. It's been happening for a month. The condo...

@ConCretin thanks for the detailed reply!!! One clarification --> The crew is ripping out the existing slab (2") + tile. 1. Concrete PSI - I'll see if getting 3000 or 3500 PSI will make a decent difference in price. 3. Gravel - this is a new slab, but getting that much gravel (720 sq ft)...

How can I safely go about demo-ing this staircase? I'm getting a new basement slab poured and I plan to rebuild this into a safer structure. Do I pry out the treads and risers from the top and work my way down? Floor above is 99" of the basement floor. I'll keep a 8' step ladder down...

My floor /slab height variation is too great for dri core I think. Lows are 2 1/4" lower than the high point. And its not the tile that's causing the problem. ITs the slab. Heres a rough height map of my floor. High point is in the upper left corner (near the 1/4"). The measurements...

I'm getting ready to get my basement slab replaced with 4" of concrete. Currently I have tile + and old 2" slab on top of dirt. Plan is to have one giant room with LVP on top of the concrete. I was initially thinking about patching the valleys with sand topping mix and then topping...

Roger that. That cap took a lot of mental energy to make. I'd be devastated if it flew away.

I built a cap for an unused doghouse. (ventilation stack for a old brooklyn rowhouse). I built it a little bigger so I wouldn't have fitment issues. Over did it a bit too much. Can I bend a u-channel and glue/ rivet it onto my cap to take up the space? Or is there better way? I'm planning...

I think I'm going to do a new 4" slab. I see in my boiler room there is a little concrete ledge going all the way around. Is that something I should ask for on the new pour? Also I have 4 lally columns in the new pour area. Does anything special need to be done to accommodate these? What...

I've gotten some quotes to redo the floor... (720sq ft***); The basement is going to be used for tool / supply storage, and maybe some occasional projects. -$5000 - $6500 to patch low spots and pour self leveler. Flat floor. - $9500 to rip out the tile and the existing 2" slab, compact the...

Thank you for the detailed response. The basement will be one large area + a powder room. Will protecting a self leveled floor with RAM board or 1/8" hardboard suffice? If I decide pour leveler over the tile, I will have a the contractor grind down the tile surface and apply leveler...

I think the tile is ceramic. The tiles feels firmly bonded. But it's possible there are voids. I'm not really sure. The bathroom and the area where an oil tank used to sit are just slab - no tile. Also the basement was split into rooms by a prior owner, so there are voids for the metal stud...

I patched the floor Tuesday and covered it with a plastic sheet. It's been 72 hours and the concrete is hard to the touch but still wet. The room is 58*F and humidity varies from 40% to 60%. Sackrete Crack resistant concrete. Should I remove the sheet at this point? I've read keeping it...

I'm getting ready to refinish my basement. It's about 750sq ft - no walls aside from a half bath. The floors are currently 18x18" tile with a lot of lippage. My initial thot was to hire contractors to pour self leveler over the tile and then install LVP. I could also tile over it. It...

I had to cut the slab (1.5 - 2" thick) to make a couple of plumbing repairs. Rough estimate is 22 sq ft. Do I need to chip the edges of the existing slab to create a rough surface for the new concrete to bond to?

I'm not familiar with bell traps. But why would one side be capped?

I forgot to mention there are two 3" floor drains upstream of this one that have ptraps. But I agree that the plumber may have realized there's not enough room to install the proper fittings. I think the 2" santee was installed b/c that's what he had on hand. Based on the other plumbing...

I have a floor drain in my boiler room. It appears to feed to a 2" santee on its back. One side is capped with a rubber fernco. And its outfitted with a strange drain restrictive drain hole. (I have the grate somewhere). I was doing some work which required me to cut the slab open. (Tie...

its a wet return for a steam boiler. im replacing the entire line. 1 1/4" TYpe L copper pipe. 1 3/8 OD. Not a lot of pressure, but the line will be full of water 24/7/365. I ordered the cutter @Prairiedawg listed. It won't get here till next week. (Hopefully its still modifiable). In the...