Q-I recently was visiting with some friends. While sitting in their family room, I heard water rush down the wall next to me. It was very objectionable. Evidently, someone had just flushed the toilet ...

AUSTIN -- For the first time we're getting a look at where potentially dangerous cast iron gas pipes are located and the plan to remove them. It was a cast iron pipe that triggered a gas explosion in ...

Enhanced coated cast iron soil pipe products offer all the benefits of traditional cast iron while negating the major drawback of cast iron in aggressive applications: corrosion. In the 1890s, cast ...

Replacing a section of cast iron pipe is easier than you think. Step 1: Cast-iron pipe is very heavy. Before cutting out a section of pipe, secure the plumbing stack or run in place. Wrap rebar tie ...

You may not have noticed, but we've had a war of words going on over the issue of imported Chinese cast iron soil pipe. In our May issue, we ran a letter from an importer of Chinese cast iron pipe ...

When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion. Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of ...

Your plumbing at home may seem like a simple system. But a surprising number of things can easily go wrong with your pipes, ...

The State Plumbing Code Committee has voted to suspend a decades-old rule that business leaders and developers had long viewed as a major impediment to investing in major construction projects. The ...

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’m renovating a single family brownstone in Brooklyn. I’m redoing the entire plumbing system. Last year the DOB passed new regs which permit the use of PVC piping for single family residences. Can ...

I keep getting shipping weights/charges for skillets.<BR><BR>The backstory: Might be getting a house, sewer stack is cast iron, 4", I believe. One section will need to be replaced before too long, and ...