Laundry room

The laundry room often holds the water heater, the main shut-offs and the washer hookups, so the repairs here are mostly plumbing. The videos so far cover flushing a water heater and what water heater noises mean, which are jobs worth doing once a year.

Before you work on anything, learn where the shut-offs are: our guide to shutting off water, power and gas shows how. Washer hoses and drain connections are cheap to check and expensive to ignore, so look for drips and bulges. Gas water heaters and gas dryers involve a gas line, and that is a job for a licensed gas fitter. When to call a licensed pro explains the line.