On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:57:52 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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Adorable Deplorable wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:02:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Adorable Deplorable wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:16:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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Get up this morning for a nice shower. Wash off virus that landed in the
night. Shower is luke warm. Garage has a small lake, to small for
boating. Go to Home Depot to get a new water heater. Frigging
expensive. At least I got a discount Harry missed. My 10% military vet.
Saved $95. What ever happened to reasonable water heaters? They still
last about the same amount of years. Last one was 14 years ago.


You gotta drain 'em and change the sacrificial anode. Or they rot.
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They still won?t last more than 15 years.

We've been here since 1995, using the same water heater with no problems. Change
the anode and clean out the bottom. Easy.
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Northeast has good water. We are 1/2 well water and half river water.

If they're not maintained they will fail sooner, regardless of the water.
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:57:53 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Adorable Deplorable wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 01:24:30 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:02:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Adorable Deplorable wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:16:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Get up this morning for a nice shower. Wash off virus that landed in the
night. Shower is luke warm. Garage has a small lake, to small for
boating. Go to Home Depot to get a new water heater. Frigging
expensive. At least I got a discount Harry missed. My 10% military vet.
Saved $95. What ever happened to reasonable water heaters? They still
last about the same amount of years. Last one was 14 years ago.


You gotta drain 'em and change the sacrificial anode. Or they rot.
--

Freedom Isn't Free!


They still won?t last more than 15 years.

It mostly depends on the quality of your water. Up around DC, water
heaters seemed to last forever, whether you drained them or not.
I found out real fast that is not true with well water in Florida.

My neighbor's crapped out a couple months ago. There was so much sediment in the
bottom it wouldn't drain. Had to be unplugged first. The anode was gone.
Draining isn't the only maintenance. Anode is important.
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Freedom Isn't Free!


Our gas water heaters don’t seem to eat anodes.

Mine's gas. Ate the **** out of the anode. When I replaced it, a three foot, 3/4
inch anode had dwindled to about a 10" by 1/4" anode.
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Freedom Isn't Free!

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:57:51 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:16:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Get up this morning for a nice shower. Wash off virus that landed in the
night. Shower is luke warm. Garage has a small lake, to small for
boating. Go to Home Depot to get a new water heater. Frigging
expensive. At least I got a discount Harry missed. My 10% military vet.
Saved $95. What ever happened to reasonable water heaters? They still
last about the same amount of years. Last one was 14 years ago.


14 years is dinosaur age for a water heater around here. I am probably
going to be doing mine soon and I did my FILs last week. Where did
yours fail, the bottom or the top?


I think the bottom, but have not examined where the leak was.

A lot of time it is right where the water connects at the top that
rusts out. Using dielectric couplings mitigates that quite a bit.

wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:57:51 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:16:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Get up this morning for a nice shower. Wash off virus that landed in the
night. Shower is luke warm. Garage has a small lake, to small for
boating. Go to Home Depot to get a new water heater. Frigging
expensive. At least I got a discount Harry missed. My 10% military vet.
Saved $95. What ever happened to reasonable water heaters? They still
last about the same amount of years. Last one was 14 years ago.


14 years is dinosaur age for a water heater around here. I am probably
going to be doing mine soon and I did my FILs last week. Where did
yours fail, the bottom or the top?


I think the bottom, but have not examined where the leak was.

A lot of time it is right where the water connects at the top that
rusts out. Using dielectric couplings mitigates that quite a bit.


I have dielectric couplings.