Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Household plumbing systems use PEX for pipes to supply water and carry away sewage. The term PEX stands for "crosslinked polyethylene." PEX piping is manufactured by melting high-density polyethylene ...

NEW: A Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association official has a rebuttal to the Beyond Plastics report covered in this story. Read the detailed update here. Bennington, Vt.-based Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PVC pipes - Bowonpat Sakaew/Getty Images PVC pipes are one of those supplies that have a way of accumulating around the house; ...

I went through a house I am planning to buy with an engineer yesterday and he pointed out that the current owner seems to have redone a lot of the plumbing with PVC piping and that PVC is not legal ...

The article outlines how build-ups, aging pipes, and sewer camera inspection help prevent serious plumbing problems.