A 13-year-old boy drowned after being swept into a drainage pipe during a heavy rainstorm on Thursday evening in Maryland.

The water collected in a French drain pipe needs to discharge somewhere. Unfortunately, not every property has an ideal location for draining hundreds or thousands of gallons of rainwater.

The behind-the-wall framework of a home contains a vital plumbing system that keeps it running efficiently and safely. Within every residential plumbing system you have subsystems that include ...

Let the pipes drain for the night so they can’t burst. Then you can turn the water on after the freeze. Water pipe bursts expected to get 'exponentially worse' as things start to thaw out ...