Recent content by oldpops

I am guessing the hose bid on the back of the house was original to the home. I guess i can buy off on the pressure being high at 70 lbs, but then wonder why is there a water pressure issue on some of the fixtures.

Hi All, I need some advice. We moved into our home in 2009 (built in 2002) and it has PEX plumbing throughout the home, with the manifold in the attic. The water pressure has never been very strong but it was OK enough to use. About 8 months ago we started hearing what sounded like a 'pumping or...

Hello All! I've gotten some wonderful advice here on a few subjects before so I thought I would ask another question. We have a metal security door on the front of our house like the ones they sell at Home Depot or Lowes. Anyway, we want to change the lock set on the door. Currently, there are...

Thanks, I appreciate your help. I was hoping to find a similar metal hardware cloth/mesh to what we have on the front security door. Mesh tech is kind of expensive for the number of windows I want to re-do. Tried contacting the company that made/sold the security door but they do not respond.

was not able to get the pictures to post above so let me try again

Hello All! I came here a few days ago to see about finding an "H" shaped clip and the folks here were able to help me locate it. Now I am hoping you folks here can help me locate some small weave hardware cloth/ metal mesh or screen material. We have a security screen on our front door that came...

BINGO! I followed the advice to google Aluminum H extrusions and hit the mother-load!. Thanks again!

Just my luck! The Guy who built the pantry shelves in our home probably was someone who had these old clips in his tool box. Oh well, the new ones should work just fine. Now my dad was an old time self-taught finish carpenter who used to keep a plum bob and level in his car no-matter where he...

HI and thanks for the link. It's not exactly like what I have now but it should work. In looking on the internet I did find something being sold by Alibaba that looks similar (see photo) to what I have but our bracket looks a little thinner.

Hi all! Wondering if anyone here has ever seen "H" shaped brackets? We have a pantry with odd shaped shelves, which are made by joining different shaped shelving boards together. Where the shelves are joined in the middle of the run, where there isn't a spot to get any support from underneath...

Hi folks, We have water cooler dispenser (5 gallon bottles) in our kitchen that ran fine when we stopped using it a few months ago. It's getting hot again so we plugged it on and it popped the GFI right away (it's actually an outlet with the GFI button built in). Tried it a couple of times...

Well, I hope to get into the two attics we have today and strap down the piped. Then adjust the PRV pressure down to 60 and see how that does. After that, I plan on getting a chair and watching the pressure gauge and have my wife turn on/off all the faucets, showers, tubs, flush toilets (one at...

i will certainly try that! Thank you all!

Called the local Ferguson store & they put me on with a sales rep. He told me he couldn't give any info on fixing/rebuilding the valve. Called Watts and support tech gave some instructions on installing a rebuild kit but then said it would be best to replace the valve. $$$ I don't have.

Hi everybody, and thanks for all the advice. I am kind of an old guy and not to good on computers so I sometimes make . I did start another thread on water hammer and hammer arrestors, and got some great advice. Now that I am zeroing in on the PRV, I didn't mean to cause any confusion, I just...