Plumbing & Water

If your toilet keeps clogging, the cause is almost always one of seven things: too much or the wrong kind of paper, a stuck … Read more

A toilet that smells like sewage is letting sewer gas escape into the room. In almost every case one of four things has failed: … Read more

Thawing a frozen pipe is a patience job, not a speed job: apply slow, moving, indirect heat, keep the affected faucet wide open, and … Read more

Learning how to shut off water to a house in an emergency takes five minutes of prep and about forty seconds of actual work. … Read more

Learning how to replace a kitchen faucet yourself is one of those jobs that looks harder than it is. Most people finish in two … Read more

A water heater making popping noise is usually water flashing to steam underneath a layer of sediment on the bottom of the tank. It … Read more

When every tap in the house feels weak at the same time, the problem is almost never the taps. Whole-house low water pressure comes … Read more

A running toilet keeps water moving after you flush: a bad flapper that will not seal, a fill valve that will not shut off, … Read more

To reduce water usage at home, start by measuring what you already use, then fix leaks, swap in low-flow fixtures, and change the handful … Read more