The big difference between you and the rest is you are knowledgeable and you are a natural investigator. You know how the design of items within your trade work. When they dont, you diagnose, investigate and identify where things are not correct. You then methodically and efficiently follow the fault and let it lead you to the root cause. Nearly EVERYBODY else lacks proper understanding of the technology and they, what we call in the electronic equipment field, shotgun the solution. They may also call it wonder fixes, as in "Hmm.. I wonder if this might fix it?". You sir are a gem and always worth more than you are paid.

At your age, you have a Dad or other family member that passed on the breath of knowledge and wisdom you possess. You are an impressive young man.

There was nothing stupid in your video. I paid a local plumber to replace my water pump when 2 of my bathrooms were leaking. Thank you for your informative instruction video. What you do there is protect us clueless homeowners from shady work and inflated, unjustified billing.

Plumber here. Love the Video's. For a quick easy test for all the home owners out there. Put Kool Aid in the tank to see if the Flapper is leaking. Found some crazy, unrelated stuff thru the years with Kool Aid Tracking down where sewers end up and some water pipe leaks too. No one seems to get real mad when I put kool aid in there water pipes. :)

i am a contract water system Operator turned well guy as a result of forest fires leaving hundreds of homes without water. your videos help ALOT.

Clever boy! This is what you tube is for ,smart, informative information. Thank you. Wish you were in australia

When I was first repairing toilets in the 60's, we had to bend the float rod to adjust toilet tank levels.

Awesome information!! No one ever makes the connection from a pump to a running toilet etc, they always wanna replace the pump! Great, honest, informative video - you are appreciated!

Another great sign to teach people is , if you see the tank sweating, that lets you know that the tank is cold because it is constantly getting replenished with cold water and falls below the due point.

Don't know if you read your comments but I'm having a similar issue and I think you just saved me a few 1000 dollars. Toilet ran for three years unnoticed. Let's hope my foot valve isn't the issue now

I would not ever thought of this! Many thanks.

I love that tip to turn the breaker off overnight, then look at water closets to spot the culprit. Singing toilets are easy to spot, but the silent dripper can fool even a plumber.

Your videos are always so helpful brother!

Keep the videos coming. Always learn little things from you. Thanks

Thank you much. Since I’ve been watching your videos I’ve learned a lot. Thank you and keep up the good work..

Well done! Thanks!

Your video’s are all informative your an honest person. I don’t have a well but I love watching your videos very knowledgeable.

Great common sense fixes. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Really helpful, thank you!

Your just so full of all kinds of information, if everybody would listen they would have so much knowledge as you do. 👍

I live in Central oregon. Our well pump went bad, lack of water. A pump guy put amp meter on controller, it wasn't showing enough load ie....no water. I discovered I have 38 inches if water at 141 ft. I put in a 24 volt solar pump . We get 1.4 gallons/ minute. We get 300 gallons a day to our cistern.

Great advice.

Very good information. Thank-you.

First thing I do when a customer would tell me their cistern is leaking… let’s check the toilets. I’ve even had homeowners call the tank manufacturer to send someone out to check for leaks in the tank when it’s just a toilet running 24/7. Still not as bad as the plumber who directed the daily, (and set to maximum) back-flush on the water softener, and the bypass from the RO filter directly into the septic system. Between the saturation and the salt, I had to tear up their entire yard, attempt some soil remediation, and deploy a whole new treatment mound. The kicker is that the well and treatment system worked perfectly for years in the the temporary apartment built out of a garage package while the “proper” house was built. Instead of leaving everything in the mechanical room in the (soon to be) bonus garage+workshop, where the clean waste water was sent to a down-slope surface discharge, the plumber insisted on moving everything into the basement of the new house. so much unneeded work.

Excellent info, running water thru toilet will over load the lateral lines for the septic tank, that will keep the septic tank from doing its job, if you are on city water running toilets will cost you a small fortune on the water bill, I keep 2 replace kits in my furnace closet just in case (if you keep spare kits be sure and use them first as the rubber will dry out over a few years) I change both mine every 2 to 5 years kits are only $25 to $40 dollars, very cheep insurance against leak's.

Incredible. I had no idea of this. Hope this helps my issue.

Awesome ty.

Great video 👍

The masking tape idea for nights of extreme cold for your toilet is a great technique for those nights only . Thanks for the idea .

Seriously saved my a** man! Thank you, seems simple but unless you've looked for it so easy to miss. Would have been the last place I thought to check!

Thanks bro. You are perfect good man

Ty so much!!!! Wow!!!!!

My well system has a variable frequency drive. One of the side effects is that when it's pumping, I can hear the hissing of the electronic control unit right near where I watch TV. My brain seems to be tuned to alert me when that hissing is too regular. Then I can go around and check the toilets, humidifier, RO system, outdoor faucets, etc. Not saying a VFD is the right answer for everyone, but it's a handy 'feature'. Love your common sense approach to problems.

Good Stuff!

I subscribed! It great to see someone that actually diagnoses problems before just changing parts or digging a new well. I recently had to change mu submersible pump. Ohmed out, grounded out. 60 ft deep, lots of rust bacteria. Put a new pump and it reaches water but starts sucking air in about a minute. Very slow to regenerate. The well is 6 in steel cased at least 40 years old. Is it possible that an acid cleaning will help? Are there actually screens on the well pipe? Second question, my next door neighbor installed a pump and dump geo thermal heat pump two years ago. Stupid, I would think its really going to shorten the life of his pump with it running constantly. What are the odds his constant pumping is effecting my well negatively? Thanks for what you do.

Not stupid I just checked mine last week and it was leaking. Gave it a good cleaning now everything is OK. When you have a well you have to keep on top of these things.

Watch the flush valve also for seepage

Great video, sir. This is the sort of thing that folks learned routinely back in the day, but that sort of self-reliant thinking has faded. I'm happy to see you helping to renew that understanding in people! Folks who buy a home really need to learn some of this stuff. Calling in a plumber to replace a fill valve and a flapper and maybe a flush handle on a toilet can cost a small fortune. If you do it yourself, you are in for only $20 or so in parts and an hour's work. To be honest, there is nothing I like less than plumbing - except for spending hundreds of bucks on a plumber to do something I can do myself! Take care and God Bless.

That’s a deep well!…oly chit!….most excellent video!

It blows my mind how people overlook the little things. How could you have masking tape stuck in your toilet flapper like really? How could you let your toilet overflow like that like really? Phil you have all the awareness in the world the world needs to borrow some of it.😢

Even on city water and septic check your toilets I don't know how many houses I've been in as a technician for a cable and heard till it's running and told customers that the toilets are running and then they wondered why their water bill was higher than it used to be it takes to being a bit of a maintenance guy from my aunt for her rental property I've learned to deal with toilets so been able to tell all the people how to fix their own toilet

Yeah it's does makes difference, I find that every person that is they too many toilet in house hold that will affect all cases.

Great video as always, where would u recommend putting the filter, before the tanks or after?

I go to a lot of jobs like this where it's something simple and over looked. People want to be cheap and hire so and so but for diagnostics you really need to hire someone with a lot of experience. If they want to fix it them selves or get a handy man after they know the problem I am fine with that.

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Excellent, informative video. Lived on various acreages for 35 years and never knew this.

My comment is. Why. You don’t let your helper do the hard job? Since you are the BOSS 🤣🤣

Just the other day, I had a piece of debris wedged in the top of one of our toilet valves, preventing the o-ring to seal; Causing the water to run constantly.

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I guess you've seen my Fluidmaster valve cleaning video then. :>

you are a great teacher

Ayyyyeeee ….just like that

And mansfield crappers have a flat seal that leaks and also break the flush handle. If you break the handle replace the seal on the flush valve. Dam cheap verses a flooded sewer bed.

Good catch!!!

Hey bud, i have a well thats giving me issues. Lots of air in the lines. So it builds pressure on the gauge and the pressure switch kicks and slowly leaks down over a couple mins and repeats the cycle over and over. What do i check now maybe a leak at bottom of well pump or a bad check valve? Thank you!

Well we had a thunderstorm then we had some electrical surges. But now the water pump and the water heater don't work and water don't work now.

Good morning I have no power at my pressure switch and no pressure on my pressure tank changed the switch same problem

Will it make the breakers pop?

I’m having a problem with my well, I replaced the pressure switch and I tested it, when I test just the left or just the right it reads 0. When I test the left and right I get 240, when I check the left or right with the ground I get 120? What’s going on??

You can shut the toilet valve off and it will do the same thing with out shutting the whole well off

Ok. You sound like you know what you are talking about so I'm going to tell you my story and maybe you can give me some advice. We moved into a brand new property a little over 5 years ago. We had a 425 ft (supposedly) Well dug. Had decent water pressure. Within about a month we started running out of water. (this happened when I tried to water a small garden) I called the guy who installed the Well. He said to turn off the Breaker and wait a few hours. HOURS! I'm thinking to myself that makes no sense! But that's what I did. And to make this story a little shorter....that's what I have had to do for these last 5 years!!! Supposedly we had 2 and a half gallons per minute. As I understand our State (SC) requires a well to produce that as a MINIMUM. Well we actually at the house tap we get only about a gallon a minute. My Wife can wash about 2 loads of laundry, a sink of dishes and then we run out of water! I'm at my wits end. New toilets, new Well, new everything and still we run out regularly. It's almost like wherever he terminated the pipe in the Well it's not getting enough VOLUME of water. I don't know. We have decent pressure just no volume. I'm guessing we can get maybe 10 or 15 gallons of water and then woosh...gone! I can't water a garden wash my vehicles, heck...do much of anything that might require more than about 10 gallons at any one time. Advice? Anyone? Oh also, I get a LOT of black sediment in the Toilets so I have to Shop vac them regularly. I have a 140 micron spin down filter that I also have to rinse regularly. Like every week or so! It's so bad I have to have a backup filter so that I can just swap them out.

My plumbing secret,put two drops of blue food coloring in tank let sit,see if bowl turns blue.

Please help me!!! After a hard freeze my system has not worked- not sure where the problem is. I turned off the breaker to pump and water heater(not sure why I did the water heater). Never found exactly where a possible frozen pipe was but I had no water.. after warmer days I turned back on and I got nothing. The gage on pressure tank doesn’t move and where my compressor is located it just makes a clicking sound.. is my pump bad? It’s a fairly new tank and switch(1 1/2 yrs).. any suggestions please?!?! I’m doing this project on my own so anything will be helpful, thank you

Unrelated question but I've always wondered.... My plumbing supplier has both Merrill and Square D pressure switches. Merrill's are a few bucks cheaper. I've used Merrill with no problems. Is one more reliable than the other?

I know you are dealing with well and septic, I find allot of issues on city water. From debris...

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People never learn how the basic things in their homes work. Used to, but now, they don't. I'm a science guy, fix everthing, etc kind of guy. It is mind numbing how little folks know, and how that ignorance puts them at a very real risk of injury or death in their homes. They are CLUELESS about all of it, furnace, water heater, gas appliance vents, etc.

Does the running toilet make the water pressure stop?

We bought a new pressure switch and it clicked on them it turned off it just won't work and we have no water it goes on then off switch even the water heater doesn't have water and it is brand nether does the blue tank by the pressure switch please help cause Mom has heart problems and I have bleeding ulcers and migraines

I have a problem that I don't see a video for.... We just had a really cold night and I think my pipes might have frozen, because we haven't had water since. None of the breakers have tripped and I'm clueless as to what to do next to figure out what's wrong. Can you help please?

Hi , wondering if you could give me a bit of advice i installed a new submersible well pump yesterday and it turn on and then the water stopped. I have 50 pressure but still no water . I'm at a loss 😢

As an Engineer I can't believe that people don't notice leaking toilet is somehow connected with wasted water...

H2o could I get your help please

Would the original well been able to provide sufficient water if the toilets were working properly?

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Those plumbers should be embarrassed.

Most UK wc 🚾 have a siphon system to empty the cistern. Once the cistern has emptied siphon is broken, just have to check the overflow. Jesus don’t you Yanks have some poor building and plumbing codes.

I don't understand why you think leaking toilets are a reason for having no water. You should never have no water because of a leaky toilet. No water means blockage or no water pressure and has nothing to do with a leaky toilet. Assuming the pressure switch is energizing the pump, no water pressure usually means bad pump or the well can't keep up with the pump. I don't understand your emphasis on leaky toilet in a no water situation. The question is why does a well stop producing? The problem is on the supply side not a leaky toilet. That's ridiculous. But I think you have very good videos in general but this one is strange. If there's no pressure in system that involves a remote well pit the very first thing to do is close valve near tank in line that supplies plumbing in house and see if pressure in tank builds up.

help please . I have no water because the plumber cracked the pipe to the filter when he over tightened it and it was dripping but now crack got bigger and I had to turn off water of course on July 4th no plumber t fix it . I tried to loosen the threaded piece that is cracked but I can't get it loose . My hands are to small for the vice grips to loosen it . I need a new plumber and wonder if you know one in Pittsylvania county VA NOW OR TOMORROW . We are seniors . I bought the pressure tank gauge from you also

geeze what I went through Running tiolets bad rings . bad hoses . I stopped using wax rings they are useless and use neoprene now . I put metal braided hoses on everything when I replaced all my floors myself after a fridge leak on ice maker . I replace my rubber flapper every couple of years .Dishwasher , washing machine , fridge and tiolets have metal braided hoses . I also found if you put a little vaseline on toilet flapper , fridge and dishwasher gaskets it helps them seal better learned that as a child and after remodeling 2 fixer uppers . Learning never ends and watching a plumber or electrician helps . Now youtube helps me learn . Also learned t add bacteria to my septic tank , vinegar instead of bleach so you do not ruin your flapper LEARN LEARN LEARN WHOLE HOUSE FILTER WAS MY GO TOO . i HATE THOSE PAPER THINGS IT IS SO HARD TO UNSCREW THEM TO CHANGE THE FILTER whole house filters flush themselves . I have a whirlpool which is not reccommended for wells but it works for now . But been looking at the other ones and learninbg about them and maybe when I find the right one I will change this one out . look at ratings independent reviews on them