Will Bert
Electric Baseboard heating
Hi BP...I have an old house in 1 of the bathrooms in the back of the house which is an addition to the house the oil base heat doesn't heat up the bathroom the baseboard gets lux warm if that...I was thinking of buyin...
Josh Dillingham
No heat in one zone (boiler help)
Hi BP,
I'm having an issue with my boiler and thought I would ask here before calling the repair guy. I have a 5 zone boiler, system 2000. 4 zones are working perfectly, one zone has no heat at all. The thermostat i...
Account Closed
Diary of 1st Buy and Hold - Boston Suburbs
Just wanted to share the buy-and-hold that has served as my accidental entry into real estate investing. I consider it an ongoing project, as there are additional renovations and hopefully even major changes in the fu...
Sam G.
Laundry utilities
Hello,I'm in a small dilemma and not sure what to do, so I thought I'd reach out to the BP landlords. Newly purchased property has a small coin laundry room that's shared between 3 units. I assumed the gas was being p...
Oleg Mikhailov
Steam heating to electric baseboard conversion
I own a 10+ unit brick building in the North East. The heating system in the building is single pipe steam radiators. The system is old, heating is inefficient, some units heat up to 90+ degrees, some units don't hea...
Chris Lauria
Utilities
I am buying a 2 family place in MASS. There are three floors. I am going to let my friend stay in the top floor and rent the second floor, while I live in the first floor.The first floor is one unit and the second and...
Daniel Read
Should I add a window unit when the house already has central AC?
I have an old row house that is 100+ years old. Brick walls with a retrofitted central air system that has been installed. Everything works, but the air flow doesn't get to the 2nd floor very well in the master bedroo...
Steve Candor
Found a place! Has anyone converted a two family into a 3 family?
It's a 2 family property. Third Family is already built. I would need to separate 2nd floor electric with 3rd floor electric. I was going to run conduit on the outside of the building and run it into the 3rd floor. Fo...
Debra R.
HVAC in house without ductwork
Hi All! Maybe you can help me with an important decision about HVAC for a home we just bought. It is a 1950's ranch in CA near Sacramento. Currently it has no cooling system and the gas furnace only serves about...
Charles Situ
Creative ways to change lay-outs of Worcester triple-deckers.
Does anyone have any experience in changing Worcester triple-decker lay-outs? Was it worth the investment?
Many of us know because these triple-deckers were built 100-150 year ago, the original layouts are horrible (...