If ever there has been a phrase designed to strike fear into our hearts, it has to be this one. If, as has been widely suggested, drain-line carry dictated where adequate drainage stopped and ...

Q: I recently moved from a house on a city sewer system to a rural retirement home that has a septic tank. What can you tell me about septic tanks? At my last home, I had clogging issues in my main ...

Q. Howdy, Tim. I discovered on askthebuilder.com that you’ve been a master plumber for 40 years. I recently moved from a city house on a city sewer to a rural retirement home that has a septic tank.

I’ve always loved doing plumbing because it’s a very interesting three-dimensional challenge to install drain, waste and vent piping in a new home or a large remodeling job. Because I was also the ...

Professional drain cleaning is an art unto itself. Our firm evolved slowly to adopt motorized drain cleaning equipment. Prior to that, we primarily utilized metal ribbon push tapes and hand-cranked ...

We tend to take our plumbing systems for granted. Turn on a faucet, we have water. The water runs down a drain and disappears. Out of sight, out of mind. What a luxury. It wasn’t so long ago many ...