Miscellaneous Plumbing

Questions and answers about plumbing including how to handle minerals in the water supply, hammering water pipes, a broken stem screw, and air trapped in the pipes as well as how to sweat copper water pipes and find a home’s water source. These real questions and answers may help you explore and address your own miscellaneous home plumbing situations.

Hammering water pipes are cause of great annoyance?

Replacing a broken stem screw?

Sweating copper water pipes nothing to perspire over?

Test well water for mineral levels?

There's iron in the toilet water?

Trapped air could cause noisy plumbing?

Water source requires detective work?