Q: A plumber came by recently to look at a problem in our kitchen but when we showed him our garage with our 1936 overhead drainpipes he gasped at our old bell-style cast-iron pipes and said they were ...

I recently had a plumbing emergency in my own home. The main drain pipe under the basement floor got clogged with toilet paper. The culprit is a newer low-flush toilet in a basement bathroom. I’ve ...

Everybody knows that plumbing can be a messy, smelly and altogether nasty job. Nobody wants to do it except plumbers, who make good money doing the work nobody else wants to undertake. The best way to ...