If you’ve never heard of polybutylene piping, chances are you’ve never needed a major plumbing renovation in your house. Polybutylene is often called “poly,” “Poly B,” or “PB.” These days, it no ...

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 ...

Jim and Charlie Rourke thought their new southeast Fort Collins home was nearly perfect. Then they hired an inspector to check it out. “He walked into our furnace room, shone his flashlight and said, ...

Q: Can you give me information on a lawsuit about plastic water pipe used in homes? I heard a little of it over the radio a couple of weeks ago. They said the maker of the pipe would pay to have it ...

IRVING, TX — A new technical document that addresses the critical differences between crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) tubing systems with polybutylene (PB) systems has been published by the Plastics ...

For homeowners with leaky or bursting plastic plumbing, relief may be less imminent — and less extensive — than some attorneys had hoped. A Houston judge last week threw out a $750 million ...

ATLANTA — Class-action lawyers sent out yet another notice in late September that owners of houses, mobile homes and other structures with polybutylene plumbing systems and acetal plastic insert ...

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 ...

San Antonio is suing plastic water-pipe manufacturers for $50 million in a case that could be important to Chicago where an ordinance to approve the use of plastic water pipes in homes is pending in ...