Greeting BP family,I recently bought and rehabbed a 2 unit townhouse with separate electric and gas meters.  However there's only 1 water heater and 1 furnace to heat the water and radiators (its an older rental). The...

Hey all,     I am rehabbing a 4 unit apartment with with 550 sq ft apartments. The boiler is shot and the apartments have been stripped of their radiators. I have fairly large hall closets in each unit that can be sac...

Hello and good day! Long time lurker here who’s learned an invaluable amount from the BP community over the past year and a half or so. I remember reading through a really good thread by Tyler Jahnke a while back, a r...

Hi all!  Tackling a nearly 5,000+ square foot Victorian ... a gorgeous home with stunning woodwork, 7 beautiful oak and maple original mantles ... but also, a fire-damaged nightmare which I'd like to renovate for unde...

Hello, I currently have an occupied apartment that is a 2 bedroom with a huge living room. on the 2nd floor where I live it's the same setup but instead of the huge living room it's a regular living room and a bedr...

Has any one tried using an electric tankless water heater for heating ????I have 1bd 600sqf unit the heat calculation calls for 25k btu, NO boiler is made below 50k, I have radiant pex in floor heating, so my temp can...

I'm aware of Pittsburgh's vast differences in the real estate market from suburb to suburb, neighborhood to neighborhood, and street to street in some cases. But, in general, are there characteristics of a rental prop...

Any Milwaukee landlords have an idea the cost range of running furnace ductwork to an upper flat?I ask because today I saw something I've never seen before - a duplex with only one furnace, and the upper was heated by...

Just a bought a 32 unit apartment complex. Boiler heat to all the rooms. We’re thinking about converting everything into split unit hvac since tenant pays electricity and boiler is getting old and costs a lot to maint...

We have a 32 year old boiler for a radiator heat system in the house. We found that the auto gill with backflow preventer piece was broken upon turning it in this year, so tank is not filling properly. The cost of ins...