Totally agree on the peace of mind thing. Had a customer last winter whose heater went out on Christmas Eve... talk about bad timing. Turned out the i...

I've seen plenty of uneven flanges cause headaches, wax-free or not. Had one job where the homeowner tried every fancy seal out there, but nothing wor...

Haha, your story reminds me of a client I had once who swore his pipes were "whispering" to him at night. He'd joke about them plotting revenge for al...

Good call on the gentle tug test—I learned that one the hard way. A few years back, I was helping a buddy swap out his thermostat, and we labeled ever...

Did a similar swap at my place last summer, and yeah, the storage thing caught me off guard too. Thought I'd planned ahead, but nope... ended up with ...

Gotta say, I've seen both sides of this one. Had a customer once who was dead set on a thermostatic mixer—spent half my Saturday wrestling with old fi...

Yeah, sealing with polyurethane is definitely a solid approach. I've seen plenty of cabinets ruined by slow leaks that went unnoticed for months—by th...