Teflon tape goes by many names, including plumber's tape and PTFE tape. No matter what you call it, the stretchy, smooth ...

John Mesenbrink, editor-at-large for Contractor magazine, recently jogged my memory banks about innovations and resistance to change within our trades. In 1972, I was an apprentice plumber here at F.

Plumbing is one of those skills that many people take for granted, believing it's easy to do on the fly. Sure, there are many tools and devices that can be used to pull off this job, like the ...