Karen Dewalt reached out to abc27 for help after a pipe burst in the street outside her home and then flooded her basement, and damaged her furnace and hot water heater. Both still aren’t working.

Paul Harvey furnace filters/HOT water Published: Oct. 28, 2007, 4:49 p.m. By Zolton Cohen | The Grand Rapids Press ...

In fact, it saves energy, and money, to only have your hot water boiler on when you need it. Your immersion heater or boiler will heat up water which is then stored in a tank.

Using solar hot water for space heating won’t supply 100 percent of your heating needs. You’ll still need a supplemental heat source, so you won’t be able to scrap your furnace or boiler.

A: Let's do the math. Installed in 1973, your furnace and water heater are 35 years old. The water heater rivals Methuselah for longevity. The furnace is a ripe old age.

Defective thermocouple can prevent furnace or water heater from working: The Weekly Fix Updated: Jan. 30, 2015, 5:12 p.m. | Published: Jan. 30, 2015, 4:12 p.m. By Becky Stager, Home Repair ...

That was Ms. Nelson’s nickname for the ancient oil-fed burner that provided heat and hot water for her 8-unit apartment building on a historic block in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.