Category DIY Plumbing Repairs

DIY Plumbing Repairs provides concise, actionable guides for troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining home water softeners, water heaters, filtration systems, and other residential plumbing and water-system components.

DIY Plumbing Repairs

How to Connect a Sump Pump Discharge Hose: Fittings, Adapters, and Secure Attachment

Outdoor scene featuring a metal hand pump with a discharge hose attached, illustrating hose connection points for drainage.

Connect sump pump discharge hose: fittings, adapters, and secure attachments for softener, heater, filtration, plumbing systems.

Bob McArthur
January 30, 2026

DIY Plumbing Repairs

Electric Water Heater Not Heating? Your Step-by-Step Fix

Technician wearing gloves uses a digital multimeter to test an electric water heater's wiring and thermostat connections.

Water heater not heating? Troubleshoot with thermostat, element, breakers, wiring; tips for water softeners, filtration, plumbing.

Bob McArthur
January 25, 2026

DIY Plumbing Repairs

How to Light or Relight Your Gas or Propane Water Heater Pilot Light

AO Smith gas water heater with a red pilot light button, installed in a utility space

Step-by-step guide to light/relight the pilot on gas/propane water heaters AO Smith & Rheem models, safety tips, troubleshooting.

Bob McArthur
January 23, 2026

DIY Plumbing Repairs

DIY Well Pump Replacement: Your Step-by-Step Guide for Shallow and Deep Wells

Close-up of a blue centrifugal well pump with a threaded pipe connection, used in residential water wells.

DIY replacement and installation of shallow and deep well pumps for home water systems: softener, heater, filtration, plumbing.

Bob McArthur
January 19, 2026