Lauren has six years of experience writing and editing home improvement content. She covered lifestyle, DIY, design and cleaning at The Spruce for five years and contributed home improvement pieces to ...

Prior to placing newly installed natural gas piping and valves in service, systems must be properly cleaned to remove potentially damaging foreign material that is inherently left behind during ...

Q. When we had our condo built about ten years ago, we had a gas log fireplace installed. This is not one of the newer enclosed units with an exhaust on the exterior of the building. Ours has a full ...

Q: My wife and I recently spent a most enjoyable time sightseeing, visiting relatives, and looking at houses that were being sold in Michigan. Most of the older places had full basements that ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- One of the charms of winter is a blazing fireplace. But if you are not thrilled about stoking the fire every few minutes, sparks, lugging wood and cleaning out ashes and chimney ...

The problem: Replacing electric heating with gas. The apprentice: Allen Charles Edwards (ACE), a first-year mechanic. The technician: N. Arthur Thomas Egan (NATE), a15-year veteran. As the work for ...

Recently I got asked to size a high pressure natural gas line, which I’m not an expert at, but I wanted to help these guys out. A gas line is sized based on the type of gas used, so that is the first ...

Life can be divided into two segments: the period in which you were not worried about your gas pipes, and the period in which you became quite worried about your gas pipes. I literally mean gas pipes; ...