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 ...

Q: My husband and I have been saving for years to build our dream home. We plan to spend the rest of our lives in this home and want to make some good material choices. Aside from the toilets, we’re ...

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 ...

Intelligent Design Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Solar, & Electric Fully Stocked Van Homes built in the 1990s or earlier likely contain cast iron pipes that may be corroding beneath the surface. By the ...

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 ...

Question: I was visiting my son’s new home and someone upstairs flushed a toilet. It sounded like Niagara Falls across the ceiling and in the walls. I thought there had to be a leak. Did the builder ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...