Woman pinching her nose while loading laundry machine - ERIK Miheyeu/Shutterstock If you walk into your laundry room and feel like you've been transported to the city sewer, don't panic. You're not ...

Q You forgot something when you were doing your plumbing work in a recent column. There is one more thing that can cause vanity sink odor -- the overflow drain. I'm an ex-plumber, and when I moved to ...

Everybody knows that plumbing can be a messy, smelly and altogether nasty job. Nobody wants to do it except plumbers, who make good money doing the work nobody else wants to undertake. The best way to ...