The inspiration for this column came from two friends who live in Los Angeles but who don’t know each other. Yet they do know I’m a master plumber, and so each got in touch with an interesting tidbit ...

Q. Howdy, Tim. I discovered on askthebuilder.com that you’ve been a master plumber for 40 years. I recently moved from a city house on a city sewer to a rural retirement home that has a septic tank.

Q: I recently moved from a house on a city sewer system to a rural retirement home that has a septic tank. What can you tell me about septic tanks? At my last home, I had clogging issues in my main ...

A water leak caused by a clogged a/c condensate drain line can cause costly, catastrophic damage. June 20, 2016 Did you know that an HVAC system can produce up to 20 gallons of water a day? Due to ...

We tend to take our plumbing systems for granted. Turn on a faucet, we have water. The water runs down a drain and disappears. Out of sight, out of mind. What a luxury. It wasn’t so long ago many ...

Drain and Water addresses seasonal drain cleaning challenges and clogged sink prevention across Silicon Valley's ...