Q: Our home has polybutylene water pipes and we’re afraid this will prevent us from selling the property. We’ve never had any plumbing problems, but our neighbors have had several major leaks. Do you ...

If your house went up in the 1980s, the most expensive thing hiding behind the drywall may not be knob‑and‑tube wiring or asbestos tile, but a gray plastic pipe that looked like the future when ...

Nothing strikes fear in a homeowner’s heart like the drip, drip, drip or gurgle of leaky pipes in your abode. While some leaks might be no big deal, others might require a full replacement of all the ...

Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - October 2, 2025) - Urban Piping announced today the launch of a comprehensive national initiative to eliminate polybutylene (Poly B) pipes from Canadian homes, ...

Polybutylene is a thin gray interior plastic plumbing pipe or typically blue outdoor pipe isthe subject of a $1 billion class action lawsuit settlement affecting 6 million homeownersnationwide.

OTTAWA, ON, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As many as 700,000 Canadian homes still contain Poly-B plumbing despite the material being removed from the Canadian plumbing code in 2005, according to ...

K L Contractor Plumbing Inc has released an informative blog that addresses one of the most common questions homeowners ask about plumbing and property coverage: whether homeowners insurance covers ...