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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: We’re building a new house, and I want to use cast iron for our sinks, shower base and bathtub. My husband says it sounds old-fashioned to use cast iron for so many plumbing fixtures and I should ...

This video from Charlotte Pipe shows a sound test of various DWV plumbing systems. Materials tested are cast iron soil pipe, solid wall PVC and foam core PVC, with and without insulation products.

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 ...