It was -22 F in the last couple of days in Ottawa, and yesterday morning I suddenly got no hot water in my main bath. Because this is an old house built in 1939, I suspect that the hot water pipe comes to the bat...

It really doesn't seem like a big deal but I have never used one of these systems myself and don't know if there may be future problems with leaking or water pressure/flow issues. It appears to be an easy installation...

Do annual flushing really extend a water heater's useful life?

so...I just realized today that I had the hot water heater for the laundry room washing machine off.FOR LIKE TWO MONTHS.I was trouble shooting something and turned the breakers for the hot water heater off.  Now this ...

What was your biggest or most complex job?  For me it was adding a 40 gallon gas hot water heater to an existing 40 gallon electric electric.  I had a spare gas heater sitting around collecting dust.  The house was a ...

I can't believe I didn't think of this one before.

If you're in a cold area, do this or have this done:

1. Go into the basement or crawlspace and find 2 pipes. First, find the pipe that is your hot water going o...

Thought this would be an appropriate question considering half this country is going to be under a deep freeze.Do you leave the central heat on low or do you let some faucets drip water to prevent frozen plumbing?  I ...

Attention Landlords and Property Managers

In my neck of the woods, we are having record setting extreme cold temperature that seem to keep lingering on and on. In the past, we are use to having a spike for ...

We just recently moved into to a new house we purchased 2 months ago and a new tenant moved in on the 2nd floor on the 5th last month. For past the two weeks or so she has been driving me insane about the heat. By NY ...

have a multifamily property with a single boiler hot water baseboard heat. Each apartment has a pop top valve with a thermostat. In one studio apartment the heat sporadically stops working. Once 2 years ago the pipe b...