Category: Plumbing

How to Install a Hose Bibb with a PEX Maintenance Loop

This how to is specifically for installing a new hose bibb with a PEX maintenance loop, as seen on the right. Installing a PEX expansion loop can be added to a replacement hose bibb...

Detect and Prevent Burst Frozen Pipes This Winter

Winterizing a home is great if you don’t live in it for the winter, but for those of us who live year round in polar (or close enough to polar!) climate, it’s nice to...

How to Design a PEX Water Manifold

Once you’ve determined you want to go all in on a PEX water manifold, a proper design is essential to high performing plumbing system. You have one shot at doing this right the first...

Prevent Water Damage 24/7: A Flo by Moen Review

Have you ever had your feet hit the floor and make a splash? In your kitchen, bedroom, or bathroom? You NEVER want to experience it again. If you are here looking for a way...

How to Replace Your Water Heater Anode Rod in 2022

Go you for researching how to replace your water heater anode rod! Maintenance on a water heater is one of those items that, in all honesty, generally doesn’t make the to do list. We...

Make Sure You Buy or Design a House for Real People

How often do you want to hug a toilet? Unless you are beyond sick, your answer should be never. Well, with two kiddos I’m beyond friendly with the toilet in this bathroom. In the...

Make Your Home Smart for Under $1000

Thinking of making your house smart, automated and conservation friendly without breaking the bank? This post is for you! As with everything, we all have limited dollars to spend and generally we also have...

12 Ways to Detect a Supply Plumbing Leak Under a Slab Foundation

Think you might have a leak, but you’ve looked in all the easy to see places? No leaky toilet flappers, dripping faucets, or sprinkler heads shooting water sky high? Maybe the leak is in...

Slab Plumbing Leak? PEX to the Rescue!

Do you have a plumbing leak in a supply line under your slab foundation? Tearing up your flooring and digging a trench in the middle of your house is one answer. However, running a...

Protect Your Home From Plumbing Leaks: Flo and Phyn

A leak never waits for a convenient time. In fact, it often seems to happen while there a million things going on, you are headed out the door, or, even worse, while you are...