Sounds familiar. What should have been a quick toilet change... -- cincyhokie 06/29/2020 2:53PM
Why are you heating hot water?!? ** -- BobG 06/29/2020 2:21PM
Hopefully you replaced with a ball valve. I can’t stand gate valves. ** -- HOKIE 06/29/2020 1:51PM
100%. Why anyone would use a globe valves for shutoffs I have no idea. ** -- VTSnake 06/29/2020 1:52PM
They stink. Can go bad in a relatively new shut off -- GreenvilleVT 06/29/2020 2:58PM
I can't even count the number of times we've had to do... -- MP4VT2004 06/29/2020 2:01PM
🤔...why would you want to heat hot water? 😜 ** -- Major Kong 06/29/2020 1:27PM
Nice. Your handle tells me you are good plumber! ** -- Guy LeDouche 06/29/2020 1:03PM
Adequate at best. I'm better at soldering a QFP processor than copper pipe ** -- VTSnake 06/29/2020 1:51PM
I consider any plumbing repair < 3 days is a successful one. ** -- 48zip 06/29/2020 12:36PM
I hope you wore this.... -- B777Fr8Dog 06/29/2020 12:36PM
I hate plumbing. My first plumbing project as a homeowner was to clean out -- HokieEngineer 06/29/2020 12:04PM
Shark bite is amazing. I have replaced all my shut off -- GreenvilleVT 06/29/2020 11:48AM
I've had two shutoff valve failures in my life. If I do any work on a -- Tafkam Hokie 06/29/2020 11:52AM
A shutoff, for the shutoff. ** -- Stork 06/29/2020 1:37PM
We arrived home after a 3 week trip -- LaneRat 06/29/2020 11:39AM
Might as well replace the anode rod too ** -- Ho_Ki 06/29/2020 11:34AM
And now, since you hadn't flushed in years, the pinhole clogged -- jmanatVT 06/29/2020 11:32AM
Sounds exceedingly normal to me -- Tafkam Hokie 06/29/2020 11:30AM
Money and trips to HD were both zero in initial estimate -- VTSnake 06/29/2020 11:44AM
I have learned to always replace shut off valves from -- GreenvilleVT 06/29/2020 11:50AM
Probably a good practice. Though this looked pretty new and in good shape -- VTSnake 06/29/2020 11:56AM
That sounds pretty standard. -- EDGEMAN 06/29/2020 11:30AM
I tend to buy everything I could need and just return -- GreenvilleVT 06/29/2020 12:39PM
Or forget to return and then hope I can find it *next* time ** -- MR2 Hokies 06/29/2020 12:50PM