Water heater leaks can cause a lot of damage in your home. Here are the common causes and ways to prevent them. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of ...

Hot water heaters are one of those household appliances that you tend to forget about until something goes wrong. It’s easy to let years—maybe even a decade or two—pass without paying much attention ...

Your water heater needs to be maintained, especially by draining it. It's an important chore. But how often should you be doing it? Here's the truth.

When a temperature and pressure (T&P) relief valve at a water heater leaks, it's usually a simple fix; just replace the valve. These valves cost less than $15, and replacing the valve is a very basic ...

Water can damage your home in many ways. Most of the time it's an external threat, but sometimes a leak from inside can cause just as much, or even more, damage. For example, a leak in the water ...

Inside Edition rented a house in Montclair, New Jersey, for an entire month, tricking it out with cameras and then calling the fix-it guys to see what happened. For the second installment, we created ...

When a water heater dies, it rarely does so without sending up a flare first. The most important early clue is a subtle but ...

A few bucks and five minutes of setup can save you a mind-boggling amount of money—and you need to put them in more places than you think. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about ...