Here’s a simple pre-departure checklist to help prevent plumbing disasters while you're on vacation. Walk through your home ...

It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it – before the 19th century super sewer, which turns 150 this year, festering cesspits had to be cleared out by hand – or at least a bucket and a cart by gong ...

“There’s no place like home!” – Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz.