If it was and you’re experiencing plumbing issues, such as backups, slow drains, mold, faulty pipes, or others, you may have cast-iron pipes that are failing. If this is the case, your insurance ...

The owner of this house under construction desired cast-iron drain pipe but got PVC instead. (Courtesy of Tim Carter) Analysis by Tim Carter I discovered years ago that readers like stories and ...

Q: A plumber came by recently to look at a problem in our kitchen but when we showed him our garage with our 1936 overhead drainpipes he gasped at our old bell-style cast-iron pipes and said they ...

Q. I have a problem with the main drain pipe in my basement. It's a five-inch diameter cast iron pipe that the other drain pipes connect to. It extends from the basement ceiling to the floor.

Older homes almost always had cast iron drainage pipes and vertical stacks. The cast iron is dense and it’s very hard to get it to vibrate to create noise. PVC is the opposite. It’s not dense ...