Some of you 'tards on here probably don't know how to ignite a pilot light. 

Now gas water heaters have an electric spark kinda thing and when they replace them, they have to run electric to it for the igniter (or whatever it's called, I'm not a plumber).

Then when the 'spill soaked' igniters fail to function & need to be replaced it drives the tenants crazy & the LL when it's $15-$30/replacement.

The only way, by observation and asking repair, you get a new one is if it is an obvious life-safety issue (eg furnace has cracked line and it's spewing out CO).Nothing against them since they did repair a old Viking gas stove in the house, but I was lucky and had the one guy that had the right igniter.

Hopefully, he can ignite some creative ideas for you.Here are two of his podcast episodes on BP:

No electric probably means no heat (blower or igniter) for both units.You may only have 90 or so more days until you start to get freezing temperatures.If your repair is going to be a while, you might want to consider weatherizing the water system by draining it.Also if you used LVT, read the materials that came with it.The one's I have seen have a temperature range to keep it at, and the ones I have seen out of that range have wrinkled to some extent.

Promises were made and then broken.They pushed me hard to go to a free one-day event called "Ignite", so I did. 

The only thing he hammered home was that I should take the 1-day "Ignite" class - which turned out to be nothing more than a huge pitch for the 8-week BOLD class. 

I have a pretty upscale relatively new (4 years) gas range in my own home and you can turn the knob past the ignition point and just let gas flow on right into the home.

He thought he put it out, but apparently it ignited something on the deck.