Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Once you’ve experienced the trauma of frozen water pipes, you take extremely cold weather and your home’s vulnerability more seriously. The low temperature freezes the water inside the pipes. The ...

When water freezes, it expands in volume by about 9 percent. And it expands with tremendous force: The pressure inside pipes may go from 40 pounds per square inch to 40,000 psi! No pipe can hold that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential ...

Large and in charge. QuakeWrap team members demonstrate the size of the 16-foot-diameter StifPipe. Photo Credit, all images: QuakeWrap Inc. For more than two decades, QuakeWrap Inc. (Tucson, Ariz., ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are likely to be PVC pipes all around your house, from guttering along the roofline to drains in kitchens and bathrooms. Most of the ...

Understanding why this happens and how to prevent it can save homeowners thousands of dollars while extending the life of their plumbing systems.