moen faucet

Can my Plumber in Sarasota fix my faucet that is hard to pull on and off

If any of your faucets such as your bathroom sink faucet, tub valve, shower valve or kitchen faucet is hard to pull on and off, your Sarasota plumber can tell you what is wrong and explain to you how to fix it.  The most common faucet that is hard to pull on and off is the Moen faucet.  Moen brand is an excellent choice of faucets due to Moens’ warranty.  Some of the reasons these faucets become hard to use is non-use of faucet, think of it as exercising your body (use it or lose it), improper installation of not … [Read More]

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Leak in the closet, the floor is wet behind the bathroom wall.

You may have started your morning by your wife telling you the floor in the closet is wet, behind the bathroom wall.  This is not what you wanted to hear anytime, much less first thing in the morning.   What do you do? Call your Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton plumber and schedule an appointment with Wimpy’s Dependable Plumbing, so when your wife asks you what are you going to do, you can tell her you have a backup plan.  Now you can take some time and search for some clues that will help you find the cause of the puddle … [Read More]

how to fix a toilet

How to fix a toilet that takes forever to fill.

  We have customers call us quite often, with the question of when I flush my toilet, why does it take forever to fill?  This is a common problem, because the majority of toilet tanks use the same type of a water measuring device commonly referred to as a ballcock or a fill valve. Typically in years past, a ballcock in a toilet tank had a float arm with a float ball attached to it.  The most common style of water measuring devices in toilets today would be a fill valve.  This style of measuring device stands up vertically … [Read More]

Why a toilet runs periodically.


kitchen sink

Kitchen sink won’t drain.

My kitchen sink won’t drain so I took apart the PVC  trap and rodded the drain two feet, but it is still backing up.  This is a complaint heard by many a plumbing company in Sarasota. Let’s list some of the reasons why a kitchen sink won’t drain and some possible solutions, so you don’t have to call a plumber. First, if only one side of your sink is stopped up, use a plunger to plunge the stopped up side while holding the strainer/drain plug down on the other side will normally clear the drain. It’s important to hold … [Read More]

water meter

Pipe outside close to house is leaking

When you get a very high water bill for two months in a row and you have checked your toilets for them running constantly, and they check out fine, you need to go outside and look around. Perhaps you have a hose connected to a hose bib, that was left on and the hose leaks.  Either the hose end is bad or maybe the hose washer fell out. Or it is spraying out around the handle or the hose bib screw on vacuum breaker. Another possibility, is that someone left the hose running. A way to tell if you … [Read More]


Why won’t my toilet flush solids out?

Many years ago, toilets, water closets or hoppers as they were called back when, used 7.5 gallons of water.  Most people never had a problem with their toilet not flushing out all the solids.  Today, with the federal water conservation act, toilets are mandated to use 1.6 gallons or less to do the same job.  Unfortunately, some of these newer toilets don’t work as well as the old 7.5 gallon water closets. Some important things to check that your Lakewood ranch plumber would tell you on the phone would be;  lift off the tank lid and make sure the … [Read More]

garbage disposal

My disposal leaks under the sink.

A common problem plumbers in Lakewood Ranch hear from their customers is, I have water leaking under my kitchen sink and it appears to be coming from the garbage disposal. The first thing to do is to dry everything off so you can determine where the leak is coming from.  When you have dried off the area, run some water and see if you can pinpoint the source of the leak. Start looking at the bottom of the sink.  Sometimes, the installer didn’t get the mounting bracket tight enough or did not use plumbers putty on the bottom of … [Read More]

Why does my water softener use too much salt?

Water softeners are great.  They tend to work trouble free for long periods of time.  Their purpose is to remove magnesium and calcium from your water.  These are the minerals that create the hardness of the water.  Water hardness levels differ around counties and municipalities.  When choosing a softner, one needs to know the hardness level of their water.  Also, the softener needs to be sized for the amount of water the household will use. When the softener is built to specifications,  it is set up for that particular water sample.  The specs of the water test will determine … [Read More]

hose bib lock

Is someone stealing your water?

Have you ever came home from vacation and saw your water bill for that month and noticed that it was a lot higher?  Or do you just wonder if the neighbor you aren’t on good terms with is washing their car or filling their swimming pool with your water? To prevent people from stealing your water while you are gone, could just be as simple as turning your water off at the main house shut-off valve.  But the thieves could just turn the water on and off and you wouldn’t know until the water bill came. If you do … [Read More]