I have not found a Hydraulic Tech close but I did try to e-mail one (plus that's what landed me at this site). The tank has plenty of fluid in it and it works very good. I wish you could copy and past the address below in your very top "http" address window and open it (to see and hear the splitter). I feel someone that has a similar splitter will see the problem, "if there is one". An in-line noise reducer is another idea I question if it w/n affect the performance of the splitter. I was told that excess hydraulic line would cause it to be loud. I also notice that some other hydraulic equipment is just as loud, "which could be normal". Is it a way to send a private message? I could send you the file as an e-mail vs on this message-board and it would open easy. The audio file is the one with the arrow if you get to the "last 4" Pic/files. http://s1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/?actionview¤tEquipmentLog-SplittersMotor-PumpsSo.mp4 Thanks for replying again!

While not a plumber, I have reviewed the International Plumbing Code and explanatory material on venting. The venting rules are somewhat complex for a subject area that is seemingly so simple. The significant requirement is that the vent to the roof connect to the drain pipe above the level of the trap weir (think normal water level in the trap). There are other rules for how and where vent pipes can merge, how many are needed for various configurations of multiple sinks, pipe diameter, etc. If there is a trap in the cabinet for the sink and a trap in the basement for the DW, then the vent pipes have to be separate ---- for some height. I believe that they can join some distance above the sink trap weir level. If both traps were in the basement next to each other, the venting should be somewhat easier to make common. Without understanding a particular household configuration, along with any local variations on the plumbing code, evaluating the reasonableness of the $1200 estimate would be difficult. kas

clinresga, like mara, "I'm a very grateful and happy owner" but not of a Maytag. I chose the Whirlpool Cabrio. I'll admit, I was in a crunch and didn't give myself much time to research for a new washer....I did later tho and the more I read the more confused I got! :o My first purchase was a Cabrio HE TL 6400 model. Pros: LARGE capacity (4.5 ft), Energy Star rated. Cons: Didn't clean my clothes. Nothing else mattered. Lint, grass, dirt "stuck" in creases, "sweaty" smell in work clothes, I could still smell my husband's cologne, stains that my 12 yo KA washer removed, the Cabrio 6400 did not. Because of room constraints, I couldn't use a FL but after reading all the issues with stiff and smelly laundry, mold/mildew issues and my mother's dissatisfaction with hers, I wouldn't choose to go that route even if I could. Lots of people love them tho and feel their clothes are quite clean with a FL! I'm convinced that the low water use in the HE machines just isn't enough to properly clean and rinse clothes. From what I've read, the constraints on water will be even less in the future. Returned the Cabrio 6400 for the 6200 (with agitator). I've only had it a couple weeks. So far there are no negatives. It has an "auto" water level (fills with more water than the HE) or, if I'm not happy with the auto level, I have my choice of 4 other water levels. It has nearly all of the 6400 model control panel options plus one that the 6400 didn't have....a delay wash. LOVE that! Might not be an option everyone would use but I do :) I spent $100 and purchased the Lowes 4 yr extended "bumper to bumper" warranty. It starts after the 1 yr manufacturer warranty. While I still had and the HE TL, I spilled printer ink on a good shirt I was wearing. Pre-treated, pre-soaked but the ink didn't come out. It lightened it but still wasn't wearable. After getting the new washer I gave it one more shot before making the shirt a "grunge" item. The 6200 got 95% or more of the left over ink stain OUT. Only one small spot remains and it's so light, it's not noticeable. In fact, today I wore the shirt to town to shop and have lunch :) Good luck with your decision. It's a tough one! Monica

I have owned two old houses. The first one was a craftsman/colonial from 1926. The previous owners had painted over most of the original chestnut woodwork with flat white paint. This woodwork had been in the original untouched finished condition for 70 years before these people got the house. The rest of the woodwork that didn't get that treatment (fireplace mantle, bookcases flanking fireplace, and stair banister and newel post) was painted with Rustoleum high gloss exterior black paint. The brick fireplace was also painted with the Rustoleum. When they painted the walls and trim, they didn't bother to cover the oak floors with mahogany ribbon molding and corner knots since they were installing hot pink wall-to-wall in every room! Yup...hot pink in the livingroom, diningroom, sunroom, up the stairs, in the hall, and all three bedrooms...lovely! They also remodeled the kitchen with pink-hued faux woodgrain cabinets, pink formica counter and pink patterned peel-n-stick vinyl tile flooring. They cut a hole in the wall between the kitchen and a walk-in pantry to recess the refrigerator thereby making the walk-in pantry walk-in no more. The black appliances finished off the look of the pink kitchen. Moving on to the enclosed porch with the original textured glass fanlights and sidelights with the original glass exterior door, they painted over the inside of all the windows (the textured side of the glass) and sided over the exterior of the fanlights and covered the glass of the door with some kind of laminate. They also continued the theme of the kitchen out onto this enclosed porch by laying down the same pink patterned peel-n-stick tile over the porch floor. The PO's before them had panelled over two beautiful stained glass windows above the fireplace on the inside and sided over them on the outside. Fortunately, they left the windows buried in the wall. They also removed and discarded the glass doors that would have been on the bookcases flanking the fireplace as well as installing drop ceilings in the livingroom and bathroom. We undid all of this nastiness by redoing the kitchen in a style that evoked the feel of a vintage kitchen. Removed all of the pink vinyl floor of the porch and stripped all of the textured glass of the sidelights and fanlights and removed the siding on the outside of the windows. Ripped up all of the hot pink carpet and had all the floors refinished. Restored the stained glass windows to their former glory by removing all of the panelling and siding that was hiding them. We also installed interior framing on these windows to mimic the rest of the moldings. We also spent three years, lovingly, painstakingly and personally stripping and refinishing all of the chestnut molding, banister, mantle and bookcases. So we decided to sell this past year and move closer to the train station. I was recently visiting a friend in the old neighborhood and the people who we sold the house to saw me and invited me in to see their handiwork. What did they do? You guessed it - painted all of the chestnut woodwork white including the mantle and bookcases! Their reason was that the brown molding just didn't go with the colors they had chosen for the livingroom, sunroom and diningroom - a slate gray/blue color. I wanted to scream at them "if you wanted slate colored walls you should have bought a loft in Chelsea and left my woodwork alone!", but instead I grinned and beared it. It's their house now. I just hope they understand they dropped the value of their investment by about $10,000. In our new house (1929 tudor), the previous owners had lived here for over 40 years. They had done the usual stuff - black and white vinyl tile over ribonned hardwood floors in the sunroom, foyer and vestibule; linoleum in two bedrooms, panelling in two bedrooms, hideous wallpaper in bathrooms and kitchen (including the ceilings). We are slowly correcting these issues. But they did leave us with three bathrooms with all original tile and fixtures, all original 6-panel doors, all original windows, all original light fixtures, the original beautiful deep green marble fireplace surround, the gracefully curved archways between all the rooms on the first floor, the original stucco and cedar shake siding, original shutters and iron railings on the outside, and all the original woodwork, albeit painted woodwork. And that's the way its going to stay.