Pipes in walls can prove a minor disaster for homeowners when they pierce them with a power drill. The first sign is usually water spurting out, and this can be electrically dangerous too. After the scramble to find the water…
Installing plumbed-in appliances can take several hours our first time around. We may find we are short of a particular coupling at the last moment. We may be dealing with a particular joint that seeps every time we turn the…
Although thermal couplings are cheaper than compression joints and much faster to install, they do have their limitations. Chief among these are restricted spaces where it is not safe to use a gas torch, and the proximity of flammable materials…