No leak is a good leak. But some leaks are an annoyance and minor expense; others are category-five disasters. If a faucet leak is a fender bender, a slab leak is a full-on 50-vehicle freeway pileup — or has the potential to be unless you detect and repair it early....
Toilet paper, yes. Johnny’s toy soldiers, no. There are some things you should never send down the drain. Now, we know what you’re thinking: you outgrew the stage of flushing non-flushable items when you were still a toddler. You use common sense, so you...
Poor drainage is annoying at best and problematic at worst. The problem never gets better on its own. Wishing it away won’t make it go away; you may end up with a complete blockage unless you take action. The first sign of poor drainage is that it takes longer...
Trees love sewage. That gorgeous crape myrtle tree that gives you so much pleasure when it blooms? It will suck up sewage if you let it. So let’s think about it for a second. Trees are thirsty, needing 10 gallons of water per day for every inch of trunk...
Don’t try this at home! Except that people have used these unusual techniques — and more — to fix a leaky toilet until they could call a plumber or run to the hardware store for a replacement part. You can manage without a kitchen sink for a day — there’s...
Homo sapiens is a poopin’ species. We eat, we poop, and some of us have jobs. Yet only recently in human history have we effectively disposed of sewage (poop and water plus other stuff). Philadelphians built their first crude sewer system in 1740. Today,...
