This week’s Home Zone is about cutting a hole in your roof. But why would you even want to do that? One of the biggest reasons is to add a vent pipe. I recently had to put in a vent when I ...

Dear Ken: I have turbine vents on the roof. Should I cover them in the winter ... so you only have to drill through wood on the way out; run the pipe to the closest outside wall.

It is possible for a roofer to unknowingly cause the portion of the vent pipes he cannot see in the attic to come apart when he works on or near the exposed section of the pipes above the roof line.

To me that is the worst time to have to go on the roof to unplug it. It is a PVC pipe that goes about 18 inches up. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? A. A plugged vent ...

That vent pipe on your roof is doing the same thing as the hole you cut into the water bottle. It’s where the air is sucked down into the plumbing system each time you drain water from a fixture.

A roof job consist of not only shingles but static vents, ridge vents, pipe vent boots, flashings and various other roof penetrations. These various components make up the roof system and not all ...

Over the weekend, I got Steve out of a big jam. He lives near Pittsburgh, and his wife decided it was time to tear out an outdated platform bathtub. She wanted a new sleek soaking tub shaped like ...