Living in a corner unit means plenty of sunlight, but given that my building is 100 years old with not the greatest insulation, a lot of cold air sneaks in during the winter. I have filled cracks ...

The hot water took too long to come out of the tap. That is what I was trying to solve. I did not intend to discover that, for a while there, water heaters like mine may have been open to anybody.

Water heaters provide an important service to your home, and when they break, they tend to cause big problems, such as basement flooding (not to mention the inconvenience of being without hot water).

Q: Recently, I’ve noticed my hot water heater making an unusual noise that I’ve never heard before, and I’m not sure if it’s serious. Why is mywater heater noisy, and should I be worried about it? A: ...

After freezing temperatures descended on metro Phoenix and large swaths of Arizona, many likely were using their heater to keep warm, perhaps even for the first time this year. But if your heater was ...