Hot-Water Heating Help Topics

In response to a person on the Wall who asked, "Can I add antifreeze to my heating system?" Brad White replies: Antifreeze is commonly done but like anything else, you ha...

Sometimes, you just have to think like air. The house had been sitting on this old Connecticut street for more than 100 years. Children, grown and long gone, had once ski...

Q: How long has gravity hot water heating been around? A: Gravity hot-water heating began quietly in the United States between 1875 and 1885. It was a Canadian import, a ...

To some, water heaters are as mysterious as a black hole. That black hole sucks in nearly six million heaters (from the United States) each year as people endure the cycl...

You could install a water heater in your sleep, right? Well, you've probably had to deal with installations that look like that's what someone did, and they're not a pret...

Paloma, Bosch, Rinnai, Takagi...there are lots of tankless, or instantaneous, water heaters out there these days. They do a great job and lots of homes in Europe use them...

I once visited an engineer who worked for the City of New York. He worked at a pitted drafting table in a green room that occupied about an acre of New York City real est...

RULE #1: Step Back, Take It All In And Think In Basic Terms. Too many people look at components instead of systems. Manufacturers are often guilty of this. Many of them c...

This goes back a bunch of years but the horror remains as raw and smelly now as if did then, and I can’t blame the airlines. It was the alphabet’s fault. But before we ge...

The guy was wearing clean Docker slacks, a wrinkle-free, red golf shirt and boat shoes. He didn’t fit in with the plumbers and heating contractors who were waiting their ...