A small addition to your shower head can save you time, money, and water: a simple shutoff valve can toggle the water flow off and on without undoing your carefully-calibrated mix of hot and cold ...

Dear Melissa: This is a very common problem when your bathtub has the old two-handle (hot and cold) shower valve. When a toilet ... Remove the knobs and pry off the cover plates in the shower.

First up on the list: changing out an old two-handle faucet and replacing ... experience may vary. First, shut off your water. You likely have two shut-off valves under your sink, one each ...

We've talked before about home electrical projects you can handle ... need to shut off the water flowing to whatever you're working on. Most of the time, there are easy-to-access gate valves ...

Screws in the stops shut off hot and cold lines at the shower for work on the valve cartridge ... 3 Cartridge Pulling the shower handle slides the cartridge forward, opening two inlets to let ...

To shut the water off, give the handle a one-quarter turn so that it is no longer in line with the pipe. In older homes, you may have what's called a gate valve instead of the yellow ball valve.