As the weather outside gets colder, the air inside your home will get dryer, which can lead to chapped lips, skin irritation, and breathing difficulties. This is why residents who live in areas that...

If your furnace is fairly modern, chances are it will have a furnace inducer motor.  Read on to find out what your inducer motor does and how you can identify when it, or other furnace parts,...

There once was a young man whose very first apartment had an old freezer-on-top refrigerator that required manual defrosting from time-to-time. Not being familiar with how to accomplish this and having numerous distractions to keep his mind...

A steady supply of hot water in the home is a convenience we don’t want to be without. While having to heat buckets of water on a stovetop to wash dishes or fill a...

You keep pressing the “up” arrow button on your wall thermostat to call for heat, but your furnace is being stubborn and won’t comply. Perhaps the furnace does start up, but then stops unexpectedly, or you’re...

It can be shocking how quickly the moderate autumn temperatures can turn downright frigid which can have you thinking about firing up your furnace a lot sooner than you anticipated. While there is regular maintenance...

If the hot water temperature setting on your washing machine doesn’t seem to be working, you’ve been washing your dishes with lukewarm water, or you’ve been experiencing the dreaded cold shower, chances are your home’s water heater is...

Similar to a furnace, water heaters with gas burners will generate harmful fumes containing carbon monoxide, a byproduct of the fuel used to ignite the burner to heat the water in the tank, whether that fuel...

While this DIY Repair blog has devoted articles to identify the reasons a gas water heater won’t heat and the proper way to vent a gas water heater, we haven’t spent much time addressing how to repair...