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Why do I have extra copper tubing connected to each bathroom sink supply line?
That's a manifold and those other pipes go on to feed other devices.
Very likely that the plumbers ran one 3/4" copper tube to the room, then branched off there and ran the other 3/4" and 1/...
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Why do I have extra copper tubing connected to each bathroom sink supply line?
I don't have code requirements handy, but there was another question here recently that was similar, and the answer there was that plumbing code did not allow copper pipe joints to be embedded in ...
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How do I determine the "finished floor height" in a carpeted room?
The finished floor height will be the height of the floor without carpet and pad. The toilet gets installed first. Then carpet and pad trimmed around the base of the toilet. ( Haven't had a ...
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Adjustable Receptacle Box - Drywall Bulging
Your obvious problem is the height of the screws holding the bracket in place where you snugged down the drywall above and below that bracket location and caused the drywall to fracture due to the ...
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How do I determine the "finished floor height" in a carpeted room?
Most of the time, bathrooms are carpeted after the fittings, including the toilet, are already in. With a good fitter, you won't see any difference, and when comes the time to change the carpet, which ...
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Proper Use of a Mud Ring?
What you have there is a cover plate. This is how the receptacle would be mounted in an exposed work type of installation.
A mud ring would look like this (thanks to homedepot.com for the image):
The ...
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Plastic electrical cut-in boxes with 3/8s tabs
It is certainly acceptable for the boxes to sit back a little; NEC 314.20 allows a flush mount box to be up to 1/4" back in a non-combustible material like drywall. (See below.) But without a ...
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How would one plumb two bathrooms from one rough-in?
You are "f'ing" crazy if you think that raising part of your floor is easier than doing some very very minor concrete work. There are all these gotchas for raising a floor and then ...
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Receptacle and Switch Box Placement - 5/8" Drywall
If you're installing new boxes or otherwise need to adjust existing boxes, by all means set them in the right position. However, if the existing boxes were well-placed originally it may not be ...
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What is common practice when doing electrical rough-in for recessed lights in a drop ceiling and walls are not yet finished?
Just leave a tail hanging at the location of the first light can. Tape the cleanly-cut end (in case someone does something stupid at the panel) and let the inspector know what's up. Everything after ...
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New Medicine Cabinet - Stud Removal
You can do a number of things here:
Shorten the stud board coming down to the header and move the header up 1.5” to 2” inches (I would do that ) - a nice oscillating cutting tool would make that easy ...
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How can I reduce a rough opening height 1-1/4"?
Cut a 2x4 to length and rip 1-1/4" off each side. Put those up against the top plate, one inside and one outside. The half inch hollow in between is inconsequential.
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How to fix drain pipe threads
Pipe taps appropriately sized are available for hire, along with something to drive them. A friendly plumber may well have a fitting one, and would do the job for a drink? Otherwise, I'd go with pvc ...
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How can I reduce a rough opening height 1-1/4"?
You should be able to stack two furring strips on each side of the top plate. The one I'm looking at right now is 5/8" thick, stacked would be 1.25".
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New Medicine Cabinet - Stud Removal
You want to follow the instructions given to cut the upper short stud some and then move the header up the requisite amount. Make sure to re-nail the lower end of the short stud to the raised header.
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10 inch rough toilet but heating baseboard is in the way
I had a weird offset flange in a bathroom where I replaced a toilet and like you, couldn't come close to finding one at my locals shops. At this point one option is to visit a plumbing supply outlet ...
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Can I add strips of lumber to studs in a framed wall to meet plumbing hole size limitations?
Ask your inspection office whether stud shoes are acceptable. They're sometimes listed for code compliance. Quick and easy, if not terribly cheap.
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Plastic electrical cut-in boxes with 3/8s tabs
IMHO, a truly professional job won't be using plastic boxes.
I don't think the 1/8" is a problem - and it keeps from having the boxes proud of the surface, which IS a problem.
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Can NM cable run directly behind a junction box in a wall?
The only two things that come to mind are that a box must be set at an appropriate depth so that it rises to the surface of the final wall covering, and that NM-B cable must be protected by a nail ...
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Is my Milwaukee drill defective?
What size battery do you have? When using large bits the drill draws a high amperage the smaller batteries just cannot sustain a heavy load. For example a 1 amp hour drill may be able to drill an inch ...
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How do I identify rough-in plumbing pipes?
Closet to the corner against wall is for a shower or bath drain. The next is toilet drain. The next is where you attach the sink drain.
The fourth (closest to camera) is the main stack for the ...
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How to route wire around a box?
The box must be large enough for the wire fill and device by code since you are installing a 20 amp circuit it should be #12 wire. #12 wire has a volume of 2.25 per conductor and 4.5 for the device so ...
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How would one plumb two bathrooms from one rough-in?
With a 9’ ceiling you can do what you want without cutting the slab. The only negative is there will be a step into the bathroom (not a horrible thing I have had to do this for a 1/2 bath because the ...
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What can I do when the rough in hole in my concrete is too large for my toilet flange?
Pour concrete (or mortar mix) to fill the space and embed your bolts into.
Wrap or otherwise protect the pipe. The UPC says:
312.1 ...Voids around piping passing through concrete floors on the ground ...
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Receptacle and Switch Box Placement - 5/8" Drywall
There are lots of options such as spacers, extenders, and mud rings.
At the end of the day you will probably save the most money and time by finding an 1/8" shim and placing it behind the ...
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Receptacle and Switch Box Placement - 5/8" Drywall
When installing boxes on studs without drywall in place it seems to me that laying a 1.5 inch wide piece of material the same thickness as the intended finish wall against the face of the stud would ...
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Basement Shower Drain Rough In
Without an actual picture for confirmation, it's hard to be sure, but with a p-trap (which can be adjusted to drain many different ways), a couple of elbows (which can be had anywhere from a 22.5° to ...
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What kind of a test plug to use for DWV inspection
Flexible double test plugs are what I've used in the past.
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Carlon single-outlet box with bar hanger?
Just use an old work box.
Cut the hole in the wall to fit the box.
Slide the box in with the tabs folded down.
Turn the screws until the tabs flip out and grab the back of the wallboard.
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Why would a rough in pipe be under the concrete?
If I had to guess I'd say that the builder expected the wall to pass over that point, and the vanity installed adjacent. You appear to have built your wall tight to the furnace, which isn't ideal for ...
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