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Rd Rash, you forgot the other cardinal rule of plumbing: Cold water goes on the right. I can answer questions about weird/obscure commercial plumbing issues due to handling maintenance at a decent-sized building full of dental offices for several years. I can tell you that as gross as you think a poo poo stack is, you don't know gross until you've hosed around with dental vacuum lines.  For even more jollies, the building is in a relative low spot to the rest of the street, so when there's a problem with the sewer it backs up INTO THE BUILDING. At least, it used to. The mega heavy duty backflow prevention device we installed took care of that. Still, one incident of being ankle deep in regurgitated sewer contents is one too many.  Any plumbing horror stories of your own, Rd Rash? 
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Lovecrusher posted:Perfect, I'm sooo happy I found this thread. If there is a bad enough clog to back poo poo up, it's going to come into your dishwasher, up the drain in your shower...you get the idea. This is relatively rare unless you have a septic tank with MAJOR PROBLEMS or the municipal sewer is backing up. I'm not sure about plumbing into the bathroom sink drain. It sounds ok in theory, but it might not integrate well with the existing drain layout of your bathroom.
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So, I'm having some hard water weirdness, and this seemed like as good a place as any to ask about it. I already know we have pretty hard water from the deposits we get in our toilets, sinks, faucets, shower head, everywhere. Softening is unfortunately not an option as we rent. Water out of the tap tastes absolutely disgusting, so we filter it. In one particular place, however, it has become completely intolerable. The dishwasher. I'm not really sure how this works, but dishes, especially on the top shelf, end up with this weird calcified crap on them after the rinse cycle that is incredibly hard and tough to get off (requires steel wool or a steel scrubby). Mixed in with what I assume is minerals are what I assume to be very tiny particles of food, but I can't figure out where those are coming from because the dishes are otherwise clean: the dishwasher is basically doing its job and the dishes get clean, but then they have this stuff on them. Is there something somewhere inside the dishwasher I need to clean? Is there a product I can add to the cycle to help? Would there even be something I could put in there that would attract the mineral deposits away from the dishes, because that would be the most ideal solution, I think.
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Rd Rash 1000cc posted:That I am unsure of, but are you on city or well water? City water. I don't know why it's hard; my parents live about ten minutes away and their water is fine.
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Sep 19, 2011 12:45
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Rd Rash 1000cc posted:And PowderedToast. Unless your parents have a softener or are on a different water district. I don't know what to tell you. Same water provider, and they're ten minutes down the road. I don't know what the gently caress. My father suggests doing a rinse cycle with some white vinegar to help clean things out, so I'm going to try that.
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I ended up using a citric acid cleaner product for my dishwasher and it got rid of most of the scale issue. The interior of the dishwasher was much cleaner looking, as well. I don't remember the name of the product but it came in a bottle with a wax plug which you put upside-down in the silverware tray...run a cycle, and the heat melts the wax and releases the cleaner. Works great!
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Quick toilet question: I have an older toilet that has started 'trickling' after nearly every flush. If I take the lid off the tank and look there's a steady trickle of water, just enough to make an annoying noise. If I touch the float (doesn't matter if I lift it or just nudge it), it stops immediately. Is there some adjustment I need to make?
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