Inside the DIY shower drain box: a bilge pump, float switch and outlet fittings for less than $25. Courtesy Roger Hughes When I bought my Down East 45, the shower in the aft stateroom's head drained ...

This thing called a box drain will never be the same again. As an item of lowly, but indispensable, preventive infrastructure, it has till now been noted more for its absence. Even without flooding, ...

I have a drain outside my garden floor door to the backyard. It connects to the sewerline underground – the pipe that enters the backwall to the house – that also is connected from the pipe that runs ...