Plumbing vents help regulate air pressure to the plumbing fixtures in your home and help gases escape. The plumbing vent ...

Q. I have a question about my home plumbing. My home was built in 1975 and has PVC piping. Each time I use the bathroom sink or flush the toilet there is a loud snapping noise in the plumbing where ...

Question: I have been having problems with the top of my stack getting covered in snow this winter. It is six inches tall and I was going to extend it this spring. I was going to add a 12-inch piece ...

Q. Hey, Tim, I had the opportunity to tour a house under construction. All the plumbing drain lines were in, but I also saw all sorts of other extra pipes that connected to the drain pipes and ...

Q: I had a very strange plumbing surprise here in Florida, and my friend told me that years ago you had done a column on this “not-so-common” toilet issue. What happened was that I awoke one morning ...

The radiators at the back of my house refuse to warm as quickly as those at the front. I was going to buy all new vents for them, but I thought that the problem might be the main line vent in the ...

I bought last year a two-unit row house with a newly renovated downstairs unit, including bathroom. In my own recent renovation of the upstairs unit, my contractor gutted the bathroom to the wall ...

Plumbing vent pipes have to be sized correctly, they need to have a slope to them to drain any condensate back to the drain pipes, and they must be installed with great care. (iStock) Perspective by ...

Have you heard the old saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know”? It’s an axiom homeowners should always keep in mind when thinking about the mechanical and structural systems hidden behind the ...