Q: My water heater sprang a leak, and water ran all over my drywall and onto my garage floor. A neighbor told me I should have had a pan installed under the water heater to catch all the water ...

Q: My water heater sprang a leak and water ran all over my drywall and onto my garage floor. A neighbor told me I should have had a pan installed under the water heater to catch all the water that ...

Is it raining through a hole in your roof? That’s pretty bad. A puddle in your water heater drip pan? It’s not an automatic disaster, but you’ve got to act quickly to diagnose the issue ...

A drain pan is a shallow metal pan that the water heater sits in with a drain hole ... but some last longer than others. Under some conditions, many survive well beyond their predicted life ...