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 ...

HOW MUCH WILL you charge me to install a gas log set?” Don’t you just love conversations that start off like that? There’s only one easy answer: “It depends.” The salesperson who handled the sale told ...

At least 10 workers have died from natural gas piping explosions in the past 12 months. The most recent disaster, which occurred during gas system purging at the Kleen Energy Systems plant, claimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The revitalization of the Pearl District - an area west of the Willamette River in northwest Portland, OR - has been underway for almost ten years. This area had previously been dominated by ...

Pacific Gas & Electric workers monitor a natural gas leak and fire in Roseville, California, in September 2011. The fire was caused by leaking Aldyl-A plastic pipe. Sacramento Bee file photo ...