Plumbing Repair Parts Lists
Leaks, clogs, running toilets and dripping faucets make up most household plumbing trouble, and the hard part of the store run is knowing which size and type of part to grab. Describe the problem or add a photo and Ask Danny builds the list for your store.
Describe the job, get the list
Type what is wrong or add a photo. Ask Danny lists the parts, fittings and tools for Home Depot and Lowe's, with aisle numbers and price estimates. Free, and no account needed.
Start a plumbing jobCommon repairs
- Toilet keeps running: what to check and what to buyA running toilet is almost always the flapper, the chain or the fill valve. Check them in this order before you buy parts, and see what to pick up at the store.
- Water leaking under the kitchen sink: find it, then fix itFind where the water under your kitchen sink is coming from, then get the right part: slip washers, a P-trap kit, a basket strainer or new supply lines.
- Slow bathroom sink drain: clear it in this orderMost slow bathroom sinks are hair caught on the pop-up stopper. Clear the clog in this order, and only buy a snake or new drain parts if you need them.
- Garbage disposal hums but will not spin: how to unjam itA humming disposal is usually jammed, not dead. Turn off the power, free it with a disposal wrench, press reset, and only then think about a new unit.
What Ask Danny lists
- Drain parts: P-traps, slip nuts and washers, extension tubes, drain snakes
- Toilet parts: flappers, fill valves, wax rings
- Supply lines, shutoff valves, push-to-connect and PVC fittings
- Faucet cartridges, washers, O-rings and aerators
- Garbage disposal parts and sump pump parts
Call a licensed pro for
- Anything involving a gas line or a gas water heater. If you smell gas, leave the building and call your gas utility from outside.
- Leaks inside a wall or ceiling, or a burst pipe
- Sewage backing up, or several drains in the house slow at once
- Work that needs a permit where you live