During the cold weather of fall and winter, knowing how to stop pipes from freezing becomes ever more important. Luckily, frozen pipes and subsequent leaks are more than preventable if you take the ...

A hairline leak rarely looks dangerous. It’s a pinprick on a copper bend or a dark bead forming under a sink, easy to swipe away with a tea towel. Then the skirting swells, paint blisters, and you’re ...

In the battle to conserve water, leaking pipes form an insidious enemy, accounting for average losses of 30 percent – but in some localities as much as 70 percent – of piped drinking water across the ...