Your water heater rarely fails without warning. Long before a tank splits or a basement floods, an aging unit usually follows ...

If you do resort to pouring hot water down your drain, Bryant recommends not to go too hot, and to avoid pouring boiling water down your drain, which is 212°F. Instead of going for the boil, he ...

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Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

There is growing interest in the microbiome inhabiting the built environment and its potential implications to human health (Hanski et al., 2012; Kelley and Gilbert, 2013; Oberauner et al., 2013).

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, researchers investigate the transmission of the causative agent of legionellosis, Legionella pneumophila, ...