How to Choose the Right Claw Foot Tub Drain
The plumber’s van smelled of copper flux and wet cardboard when I climbed in to grab the replacement drain. He tossed me a blister-packed Dearborn 1½” face…
The plumber’s van smelled of copper flux and wet cardboard when I climbed in to grab the replacement drain. He tossed me a blister-packed Dearborn 1½” face…
I once heard the sound of a bathtub crying—soft, wet, and persistent—while sipping tea in a 1927 brownstone in Brooklyn. It wasn’t the faucet. Not the over…
Complete guide to cast iron tub drain with expert advice, practical tips, and step-by-step instructions.
“Your drain’s talking,” I told the couple while crouched on their new porcelain tray. A thin, metallic tink-tink-tink echoed up every time water hit the st…
I once watched a shower drain gurgle like a teakettle after a 30-second rinse. Not because of clogs. Not because of slope. But because the flange sat crook…
The smell hit me before I saw the problem—wet plaster mixed with something metallic and wrong. I’d popped the inspection panel on a wet-room refurb in Putn…
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The smell hit me first—stale water mixed with that unmistakable whiff of PVC cement—before I even saw the chaos in Mrs. Patel’s upstairs bathroom. Her gran…
The creak of a loosened screw under a bare foot. That’s the sound most people ignore—until the cover plate wobbles, the drain gurgles louder, or worse, a s…
The gurgle wasn’t loud—more of a wet sigh rising from the tub’s throat after every bath. Not a clog, not exactly. More like the drain was breathing wrong. …