Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

Richard replaces a water heater; Tom assesses woodpecker damage; Mauro paints tile. Richard Trethewey helps a homeowner remove an old 40-gallon hot water tank with a new 50-gallon tank; Heath Eastman ...

Suffering from no hot water? It may not be a hard problem to fix. If you have an electric water heater that’s not working properly, there are several possible reasons—and many of them have relatively ...

When replacing a water heater, most plumbers replace what is there with something similar and never present the customer with options. Customers are ill-served by plumbers who fail to provide choices.

Scientists in Italy have coupled a solar-powered air heat pump with a water tank for thermal energy storage to provide hot water to a residential building as a retrofit solution. They claim that the ...