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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...