home maintenance

Your home can be a worthy adversary in the battle of time suckage: gutters need clearing, railings need securing, and walls need painting. But the worst home maintenance of all is the invisible kind, the leaky pipe in the crawl space that silently betrays you while you’re focused on curb appeal...

I was just wondering after doing research on this. When water heaters in homes reach the end of their lives, do they just stop working, or do they always explode and create a flood? If it's the latter, or if the latter is more common and thus the norm, how do you anticipate about when it will...