Home inspectors across North America are flagging a quiet problem inside walls and crawlspaces: certain plumbing materials are wearing out years, even decades, ahead of schedule. Instead of the 40 to ...

Q: We’re getting ready to take on our home’s plumbing. Should we stick with copper or go a different route? A: When you think of your in-home plumbing, rusty copper pipes in dark crawl spaces usually ...

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has sided with PEX manufacturers in their lawsuit against the state and ordered that the plastic pipe be included in the California Plumbing Code.

Greater Houston’s Repipe Solutions Inc. provides PEX whole-house repiping for aging plumbing, offering permanent solutions with Uponor quality. Homeowners face recurring leak repairs before realizing ...

Andrew Whelton, an assistant professor in Purdue's Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, is leading research into the effects plastic pipes have ...

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