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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine accessing the Internet over the same pipe that provides you with natural gas for cooking. It may sound nuts today, but a San Diego company called Nethercomm is developing a way to use ultra ...