21 Year Old Water Heater

[Anonymous]

I bet you've never replaced the anode bar, OP. And not it's too rusted in place to replace anyway.
If you want to wait until it's pumping brown water through your house and tearing into two pieces on the basement floor, keep waiting.

[Anonymous]

So you want to deal with replacement on a day of your choosing, or in the middle of the night just to save $50 ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our HW heater is approaching 20yrs and stories like the earlier poster prompted me to buy a new HW heater this week with install scheduled for early next week. The stress of a catastrophic HW heater failure and damage to the basement is not worth the risk of deferring an expense.

How much is it costing? I think we need to do this.

They run around $600-$1000 for 40-50gallon gas or electric ones.

Easy DIY install. Watch some youtube videos. Just turn off old one, drain, detach lines, dope up threads on new lines (always replace the inlet/outlet lines) put in new heater, attach lines, fill with water first, then turn it on and check for leaks/operation.

Takes about 20-30 min DIY including drain time.

You again. Stop spouting off with this. So glad you saved the buck and DIY this yourself but this is NOT any easy DIY. Your advice is reckless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our HW heater is approaching 20yrs and stories like the earlier poster prompted me to buy a new HW heater this week with install scheduled for early next week. The stress of a catastrophic HW heater failure and damage to the basement is not worth the risk of deferring an expense.

How much is it costing? I think we need to do this.

They run around $600-$1000 for 40-50gallon gas or electric ones.

Easy DIY install. Watch some youtube videos. Just turn off old one, drain, detach lines, dope up threads on new lines (always replace the inlet/outlet lines) put in new heater, attach lines, fill with water first, then turn it on and check for leaks/operation.

Takes about 20-30 min DIY including drain time.

It took my plumber 2 hours but you can do it in 20 min LMAO

If you were that good, you could be clearing 200k as a plumber.