Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...
Once you’ve experienced the trauma of frozen water pipes, you take extremely cold weather and your home’s vulnerability more seriously. The low temperature freezes the water inside the pipes. The ...
Even into the 1960s, some plumbing pipes were connected by pouring molten lead into the joints — one of the jobs best left to a pro as some still are today. But with basic tools DIYers can handle most ...