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We purchased a house with a 10-year old Gas viking range installed. Model is VGSC306-4BSS. The igniters had been replaced about two months ago (prior to us moving in).

Now, the oven will ignite...

We have an brick platform in front of our house, basically a landing outside our front door. The two concrete steps leading up to it are crumbling and the platform itself has a few cracked bricks and...

Thanks, Stratmando. Could you explain a little more about how the connections need to be made? I can run cable anywhere I want, really. I'm just not sure what to connect to what.

I am completing a basement remodeling and am reaching the point where I'm about to install drywall. At the last minute, I realized I should add a switched outlet (both receptacles will be controlled...

I had an electrician install all new circuits, outlets and recessed lighting for my basement finishing project. Just as I'm about to put up the drywall I considered that it might be worthwhile to...

I have a valve-type diverter in my shower (it's the middle of the three knobs, the others are the hot and cold, but I don't know the manufacturer). This morning I was finished with my shower and I...

Excellent! Thanks for the help. I hadn't considered it, but actually it would be better if this outlet was not GFI protected... so I think I'll go the pigtail route or the unprotected route.

I recently had an electrician wire my basement that I am finishing. It looks like on one circuit, he installed a regular receptacle outlet (facing a hallway) followed by a GFCI (facing in the...

I have a 5' by 5' area in a basement bathroom that I will be covering with vinyl tile (floating, not glue-down). The area is relatively flat and I know it is slightly out of level. There is a...

I am drywalling my basement soon and am a little concerned about potential mold growth. The basement has been waterproofed (interior permiter drain) but I figure it's better safe than sorry. Given...

After countless hours of planning (thanks to everyone here for helping me out with that!) I had a licensed plumber complete the rough in of a bathroom in my basement this weekend. It proceeded...

Thanks! Great answer. I'd rate it very favorably but apparently I need to spread some reputation around first.

Would it be safe to walk on in 24 hours do you think? I need to get in there and...

I'm having an interior drainage system and sump pump installed under my basement floor, and they will be pouring new concrete today to replace what was removed (which was quite a lot).

I was...

Will do. Thanks!



I'm not sure what you mean... this is an old picture and now this drain is connected to the trap from the kitchen sink. I am assuming you mean that since we didn't have...

massplumber2008,

Sorry to revive this thread, but I've been playing with my layout and had a follow-up question. Would the drain from the kitchen sink upstairs (which is not suitable for a...

Thank you... I see I made a mistaken assumption. Since that drain from the kitchen sink was about 2" (outside diameter) I assumed it was a 2 inch pipe. I guess that it must be measured from the...

Thank you, I think you essentially answered my questions, and then some! Based on you answers I would like to ask a couple of followups:



Unfortunately, the toilet in picture three is WAY over...

Good afternoon,

I had previously posted a message (months back) regarding adding a full bath to my basement during a remodel. Based on the feedback at that time, it seemed feasible with some work...

Sorry, one more question: Is this likely to cause poor heating or cooling in the rooms where I have disconnected the returns?

Thanks for the quick reply. Let me ask, then -- what if I supply even more area of total return... even more than I have in supply total area?

When I got a new furnace and A/C installed two years...

I live in an older house (circa 1941) with gas forced air heat, and air conditioning. Most rooms in the house have at least one supply register and one return. Returns tend to be on outside walls...

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Last night I turned the humidifier on for the first time on my new heating system (an entire new gas furnace and air conditioner was installed this summer and this is the first time I needed the...

Tom,

I've been scouring the Internet for diagrams of what you've described as a "typical bathroom group" -- and the only one I've found so far is this:
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I had a ventless fireplace installed in the existing fireplace when we moved to our house and I am very unhappy with it. I don't notice the smell too much, but the noises it makes are dreadful......

I recently had a new gas furnace installed (Carrier 58CVA090 Variable Speed Gas Furnace) and at that time the installers replaced the old exhaust vent with B Vent (this is the term they used). They...

I'm trying to read through the applicable building codes in my jurisdiction to answer some simple questions before I even start thinking about my basement remodel project... things like minimum...

Wow! Thank you for your quick reply.



Ok, I think I was confused because it would seem like there were two drains and vents when there needed to be only one if the lav (or in this case utility...

Hello. I've spent hours reading through old posts on basement bathroom rough-ins, and I'm definitely more enlighted now than I ever was. But... I have no experience with plumbing and am not...