It doesn't take much for your home to become a disaster. A Beaufort County couple discovered that after a problematic piping ...

If you look at enough houses, you will see some with polybutylene pipes, a type of plumbing that has a history of leaks. As a home inspector, I see perhaps three such houses a week -- as many as a ...

Q: When we bought our house, the home inspector said we have copper water pipes. This turned out to be incorrect. Two plumbers have determined that are polybutylene plastic. They say these lines ...

Polybutylene water pipes may not last Published: Oct. 30, 2007, 2:54 a.m.

An estimated 40,000 Maryland homeowners who have faulty polybutylene plastic plumbing have five weeks to stake their claim to a $950 million national settlement — one of the largest property ...

Polybutylene pipes have been used in plumbing since the mid- to late 1970s, especially in the Southand West, where home construction boomed during recent decades.

Polybutylene plumbing is more commonly called "gray pipe plumbing." The question is, do you have it in your manufactured home? A recent TV program reminded me of the problem this plumbing has caused.

Established in 1995, the $1.1 billion Polybutylene Pipe Settlement Fund has spent more than $976 million to provide relief to homeowners. Under Cox, you must have a leak in your pipes to qualify.

The most common material used for re-piping has been the gray plastic potable water tubing known as polybutylene. This is the piping that was the object of a class-action lawsuit in 1995.