Amazon.com has faucets on sale; don’t delay! The plan this morning was to hammer out a blog on how to fix a leaky kitchen faucet (mine). And then I came across this very timely article on the top 8 faucets for 2016: https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-kitchen-faucets?id=bng. “Maybe new IS a good idea,” I thought. Our kitchen faucet is easily 20 years old, it leaks from the column every time […]

We’ve been closely following the developing story on the Flint, MI water crisis. After reading the in-depth news reports, we are thankful for the Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) — it’s one of the finest in the nation. A trip through their web site (http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/water/about-greater-cincinnati-water-works) is time well spent. Unlike our northern water utility neighbors in Flint, the GCWW strongly believes in its mission: “To […]

Installing a backwater valve may be the answer to your troubled waters. Recently, we came home to a major problem in our basement shower – bits of toilet paper and raw sewage had gurgled up from the drain while we were away. “Yuck” is a major understatement. “Gross me to the max” is more fitting, even if it is straight out of 1983. When unmentionables […]