French drain systems are a simple and aesthetically pleasing way to redirect water away from your home’s foundation to ...

A drain snake is a long, thin piece of material with some mechanism to grab onto clogs in a pipe and either break them up or pull them out. The most basic snakes are three-to four-foot-long pieces ...

Things that pretty obviously don’t belong in a drain, like silverware or melted wax, are not uncommon. And starches, including and especially potatoes, expand in pipes, creating massive ...

It can be easy to forget to clean out your pipes regularly, but when slow drains and odor arise there ... against the most common clogging materials. To start, we have a couple disclaimers.