Typically, your supply line is 1/2 iron pipe size (it might be 3/4 ips). You will want to use an isolation valve (if one is not already there). Usually, they will have a 3/8 connection and the faucet usually has a 1/2 connection. You'll want to use SS braided hose connection. They come in standard lengths. Don't get the plastic ones.
Send us a picture of the supply line.
You will need a standard faucet supply hose. All home centers and hardware stores carry them in the plumbing section. Just make sure you do NOT get a toilet supply hose as the fitting on the end is different and NOT what you want.
The top picture is the line that is coming from the new fixture. That is 3/8" compression type.
The second picture looks like a 1/2" PEX supply line.
Was there no shutoff valve there ?
You need to couple 1/2" compression to 3/8" compression.
There should be a valve.
Something like this should work for you..... 3/8"x1/2" valve
You would remove the two supplied nuts and internal parts and screw your hoses on each end.
I do not know what's happening. AFAICT these white PVC caps are cleanouts for the sewer line. (Although one guy who looked at them thought they were cleanouts for the gutter/drainage system--you can see the gutter coming down in the one photo.) All I know is the PVC cap nearest the 4X4 came off/was ajar one day about a month ago, and some soggy white tissue-like stuff and some brown coloring (that may have been feces, but not like chunks or anything) had been splattered in about a 3 ft radius. A friend said get a cap. I did. This one in particular.
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I installed it in the PVC cap that had come off. It fit great. I thought the problem was solved.
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A friend thought the vent stack on the roof might be clogged but it (if that is indeed the vent stack. It's in the area of the PVC caps but on the other side of the roof) looked okay to me.
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Today, the other cap was ajar (you can see who the ground shifted, that was where the cap was leaning). And this time, the radius of the tissues, etc. was about a 10 ft radius but I was surprised it did not hit the building. I circled the area of the splattering on the below photo.
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Here are some closeup photos.
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So the obvious solution, to my unprofessional mind anyway, was to cap the other PVC cap (there is a 4 inch PVC pipe about 6 inches below ground level), but the friend also sent me this diagram:
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And the highlighted text really concerned me. I thought, "What if I plug the remaining cap, and the pressure builds and bursts a pipe on the inside (or something worse)?"
I say that because, again in my unprofessional opinion, it seemed like pressure pushed the PVC caps off. (But the PVC caps were not attached by a coupler or firmly affixed to the PVC pipes below by anything other than the asphalt surrounding them.)
One last observation. I've been living here 12 years and never once had a problem with either PVC cap. A friend speculated that perhaps the city (they tore up the street in front of the building and put in new storm sewers) doing the construction somehow caused the PVC caps to come off and spew the tissue-like stuff etc.
So, get another PVC test plug (like in the photo) and install it in the PVC pipe beneath the white PVC cap that overflowed/spewed recently? Call the Public Works dept? A plumber? Something else?
Thank you.
Just did a full replacement of all my baseboard heaters and swapped old pipes for PEX. While the PEX is definitely heating up, there are a couple heaters that are not getting any heat and I'm bit perplexed as to what could be going on. My initial thought is that its air, but wondering if there's any common troubleshooting that I should be mindful of here.
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