The house where I live now has a boiler of sorts. It's actually a water heater that supplies radiant floor heat in a single room, while also providing hot water for the bathroom.

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.

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.

"A campus-wide hot water outage has impacted Loyola University New Orleans since February 26, 2025. The outage is the result of two boiler failures at our central plant.

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