For most homeowners, a water heater is both critically important and a bit of a mystery. If all goes well, it remains sealed so that we don't know what's going on in there. Water presumably goes in ...

It’s easy enough to forget about your water heater. So long as hot water runs from the tap, what is there to worry about?

As long as you have piping hot showers, it's easy to take your hot water heater for granted. Most hot water heaters are tucked out of view in the basement or a utility closet. In theory, we are ...