Q: Tim, 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 ...

Over the last several years, engineers and facility operators have moved away from traditional cast iron soil pipe in favor of various sanitary Drain, Waste, and Vent (DWV) piping materials. Products ...

While you can still find cast iron pipes used in the drainage systems of older homes, they are rarely used in new builds and require lots of vigilance to maintain. Residential plumbing typically ...

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 ...

Plumbers can make your drainage plumbing whisper if they choose to use new durable cast-iron drainage pipes. Cast iron’s dense molecular structure and the use of rubber seals and gaskets between ...

THE view is gaining ground in this country that it is often desirable to provide cast-iron drainage in lieu of the usual provision of stoneware pipes. The vibration from heavy motor traffic ...

A house that was built prior to 1970 more than likely has cast iron drain pipes under the foundation that provide drainage for the toilets, showers, laundry, tubs and sinks. If it is a two-story ...

And that older, more brittle pipe — which also has some considerable corrosion, as well — is just not able to withstand those forces,” Baker said. The usual suspects are cast iron mains ...

Q. What’s the best way to repair and maintain the cast-iron pipes in my 134-year-old house? We have had multiple waste water pipe leaks and are dealing with one now. Most of the plumbers we have ...