Hello! I may have a problem with water hammer or pockets of air or whatever in my plumbing system. In order to troubleshoot, I want to drain the water from the pipes for the whole house and then refill it. What should I do with the water in water heater and water softner? Do I drain the water heater and water softner? Just turn power off on my Kenmore water softner? or use bypass valve? Thanks for your time!

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Is in-house water filtering system still needed, because those last-mile pipes to your home usually are not well maintained? Is Brita generally good enough for such purpose?

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The drawing shows a spherical reservoir that contains 4.70 x 10^5 kg of water when full. (height of house b above ground = 7.40 m.) The reservoir is vented to the atmosphere at the top. For a full reservoir, find the gauge pressure that the water has at the faucet in each house. Ignore the diameter of the delivery pipes. The cylinder base that holds up the sphere of the tower is 15m tall.

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The other morning I noticed a large puddle of water coming out from under my washer. This puddle appeared after I heard a gurgling sound. Last night I was in the kitchen washing the dishes and was running the washer at the same time, when the wash cycle turned over to the rinse cycle and the water was draining from my washer, it began to bubble up out of my kitchen sink! And it was dirty water too…it looked like stuff was floating in it, like the pipes are dirty inside. Why did this happen? It happened again this morning, that when the wash cycle turns over into the rinse, and the rinse cycle turns over into spin cycle, the water bubbles up out of the kitchen sink. The laundry room is inside the bathroom, which is right next to the kitchen. I imagine all of the pipes are connected somehow. My husband thinks the drain leading from the washer is clogged and told me to pour Draino into it. I do not think that is the answer. Thanks for your help!
Good point about the cold weather. I live in the northeast, and we have had several consecutive days where the temperatures have been in the teens and twenties during the day, then in the single digits at night. Maybe that has something to do with it?

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My university accomodation has no filtered water (i.e. with fluoride removed)… Since it is their property I can’t get a plumber to play around with the pipes and install a filter. So is there something - like a cap - that I can wrap around the tap head, to trap the added chemicals? How big would this cap be? (I will be sharing the water source with others and I don’t want a big chunk contraption hovering over the sink)

Any other tips appreciated

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Is in-house water filtering system still needed, because those last-mile pipes to your home usually are not well maintained?

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We have a well that produces good water, but at different times of the year, the water becomes cloudy, brown, etc. The well is nowhere near the septic tank, of course, so any filtering system that contains a backflush process is out of the question…nowhere for the waste water to go.

The system has a pressure pump (set to 55 PSI) and a large accumulator tank. From there, the 2" pipe goes to irrigation and to the house. I know I’ll have to re-plumb most of that to separate the outside from the house water. What kind of filter do I need? There are only 2 of us, so our use isn’t huge. I just want to keep the discoloration and scale down. This is Oregon and the water is fairly good. We will continue to use either Brita or a filter for the drinking water. There seems to be a very wide range of products from to well over 00. I just want to find something that works. Not sure if I need to worry about UV??? Thanks
I’ve used Culligan elsewhere. Overpriced to say the least, but that system requires backflush…where the flushing water must go into a septic tank/sewer…which is not accessible.

County doesn’t provide a testing service here…
The output of the pump and accumulator goes directly into the concrete of the well-house. Two pipes…one for irrigation and one for the house. They are connected with no backflow device as they are inside the building. Pipe now goes to a valve then Ts to the house line (in concrete) and to a 2nd valve that Ts to the irrigation line (in concrete) and to a faucet attached to the outside.

I need to re-plumb so I have more control (to turn off house but leave on irrigation, etc), and I can figure that out…but where and how and what sort of backflush relief can I get…and I don’t want the released water to fall inside the wellhouse. Any links to what I need to buy/do? Thanks…backflush is clearly a concern now..

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I just had a water filter system put in and the pipes are getting wet on the outside from the cold water running through it. can i stop this with out getting a thicker pipe?

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We derive underground water in our village for daily uses, which does not receive any kind of treatment. The problem is that the pipes and taps all get ruined very fast because of that.how do i prevent that? Is it a result of hard water or lass salinity. Do i need to get any specific tests?
Will adding washing soda decrease the menace, and if i do add it, what needs to be done to render the water drinkable?
Will any other step be required, the resources are less being in an Indian vilage?

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We derive underground water in our village for daily uses, which does not receive any kind of treatment. The problem is that the pipes and taps all get ruined very fast because of that.how do i prevent that? Is it a result of hard water or lass salinity. Do i need to get any specific tests?
Will adding washing soda decrease the menace, and if i do add it, what needs to be done to render the water drinkable?
Will any other step be required, the resources are less being in an Indian vilage?

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Which product prohibits mineral build up in pipes and water heaters. We have very hard water here in Nevada

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only three of the baseboards in my house are working, they are all on interior walls. but they are connected to the same forced hot water system as the ones that arenot working. last year whenever the heater kicked on there would be a wooshing sound from the water going through the pipes, but not this time. i felt all the pipes in the basement and they all are hot, so what gives?

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A contractor has removed a radiator from a hot water system. It seems to have altered the heating characteristics of the system. The remaining radiators are only getting warm on the bottom. Should a connecting pipe have been installed after removal of the radiator?. I believe he only capped off the pipes.

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Recently we had a plumbing problem with our dishwasher and while we were disconnecting the pipes under the sink we saw the gross crud in the plastic pipe tubing. So how do we get clean water to drink?

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hot water tank is in the garage, at one end of the house… kitchen and master bath are at opposite end… have insulate all pipes under the house, which helped with heat loss, but still takes a couple of minutes for actual hot water to get thru, which wastes a lot of water. is there a ‘booster’ option? recirc pump? add some kind of ‘insta-hot’ device? other? house is only 6 years old… thanks!

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