As its name suggests, a sink’s overflow hole gives water a place to go in the event that the drain is closed or blocked, and the faucet is left on. While the sink’s drain is located at the bottom of ...

Start your drain-cleaning procedure by manually removing as much debris from the drain as you can. Sometimes the clog is in plain sight, like a wad of hair and scum stuck to the stopper in bathroom ...

Q You forgot something when you were doing your plumbing work in a recent column. There is one more thing that can cause vanity sink odor -- the overflow drain. I'm an ex-plumber, and when I moved to ...