As winter weather approaches, local plumbers are urging homeowners to take preventative steps now to avoid frozen pipes and ...

Cleaning crap out of the corners of your ceiling, and out of other foreign lands in your own home, can be a lot of trouble. What's a quick-and-dirty solution? Just duct-tape some PVC pipe to your ...

Patching up leaky oil pipes with trash bags and duct tape isn’t an insufficient, lazy and potentially dangerous way to protect wildlife refuges, say two Louisiana congressmen. In fact, the DIY repair ...

Q: We have a major problem with drain flies under our house. We’ve called a plumber and an exterminator, but both say they’ve never seen this kind of problem before. We’ve also had the septic system ...

Dear Tom and Ray: My son, 16, bought a ’77 Pontiac Grand Prix. It’s loud, with a big motor (muscle-car-type motor, original everything). Anyway, he sawed off the exhaust pipe to make it even louder, ...