If you know anything at all about pipe insulation, you know that it goes a long way toward preventing frozen pipes. That's true: Pipe insulation keeps the water in your plumbing system from turning to ...

Q. My home was built in 1926 and has asbestos insulation on all the hot water pipes under the building. Fortunately, all of this asbestos has been wrapped. When I first learned about it, I was ...

I was under the impression that the owner of a single family home is allowed to remove a certain amount of asbestos pipe insulation, like 25′. I can’t find anything at nyc.gov to confirm or deny.

— A Parchment resident claims a city official lied to him about the presence of asbestos-covered piping at the shuttered paper mill next to his property on Sanford Street. David Schafer said he has ...