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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

D ear Ed: 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 ...

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.

Billet Labs has transformed a 110-pound Victorian cast iron radiator into a cooling system for a modern gaming PC.