That’s all.
Pretty sure it peed on the floor.
My water heater turned off earlier in the week, looks like all it was is the gas was turned off down the line temporarily earlier in the day. The heater is so old it doesn’t auto ignite. Followed the instructions and got it back on, super dull to do at 11pm.
This new one is so cool. The guy who installed it showed me how to ignite it. Pretty cool stuff
25 years is a good run. They’re obligated to make them so they break down on weekends.
The higher-end models are designed to break down over the holidays only. Especially the ones where you have a house full of family/friends.
I recommend encouraging any unmarried family member to marry/date a plumber.
Years ago my wife and her sister were on a long phone call discussing her younger sister’s first date with a plumber. At the same time I was tearing apart a toilet and replacing all the internals. My wife got a little annoyed with me when started yelling “Just marry him!!!” Eventually she did marry him and I get my plumbing done at the low price of buying a few beers.
Plumbing ist quite simple at the residential level. But I also live in fear it is a case of Dunning-Kruger. Why else could they charge so much money?
Most of it it is simple, until it isn’t. Swapping out stem valves, washers or unclogging drains is easy enough. It’s when things go sideways having the professional that I can just text a picture helps. Instead of 5 trips to the hardware store, it’s just 1 or 2.
Callout fee, and then the fact that a water leak can be disasterous; so leave it to a pro.
I did all my own reno plumbing. No issues. Downsized, now I’m in a condo, I call in a pro.
My buddy also did his own, his house flooded while he was away. Spilt tubing I think was the issue.
I have so many friends and we are all handy in some things. We still pay each other, but a ton less than the market and I love it. My buddy is replacing this heater for $350 altogether, labor and parts and all. I can learn things, but I choose to pay when it’s feasible.
It’s just water Lego innit
Or to burst in the middle of the night.
The same way fire alarms start making end of life chirps only at 2-4 AM
Lmfao. You got that right. It chose a Saturday to break, a day where I “supposedly” get work done.
This reminds me I need to drain mine
Highly recommended
We moved into a house in 2014 and it failed in 2015… the one they replaced it with failed twice through the years and finally leaked everywhere in 2025. So 2 in 10 years is my run. I have shit luck.
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Mine is a combi-boiler which means it runs the heat in my house, too, so when it goes out we have no hot water and no heat. They’re also much more expensive, and the doorframe has to come off to fit any modern model.
I’ve done two of those in ten years, as well. So, yeah, with you there in bad luck club.
I wanted to go to an on demand tankless but couldnt afford it and everyone keeps telling me not to for some reason… big water heater companies propaganda I can only assume! Jk… mine is electric since we have no other options so I couldnt do your setup if I wanted to I think. But the alternative is all electric base board and although reliable it costs a fortune in winter and again to poor to invest in better to help myself. Just stuck.
You couldn’t pry a tankless from my cold, dead hands. Worked a bunch of overtime to buy one out right for 2,000 cad. We were renting one before. The contract expired and returned the rental. Installed myself in a few hours. Works good if you buy one that’s the same as the rental because it’s just plug and play.
I remember my dad building a “water heater simulator” when my parents installed geothermal heating 15-20 years ago.
It was a plywood box built to the exact dimentions of the water heater, and was needed as the location for the heater is VERY tight and cumbersome to get to and goes through several narrow and low doors.
With the simulator he could figure out the best way to get it into the space for it.
25 years is fantastic. 3x what my last one did. We now have a softener and I’m purging it occasionally. Going for 12 years (9.5 left) before I’ll need to convert to electric.
Yeah, it did us good. So long, ole boy. Got me an A.O Smith to replace it.
According to the tag on mine it was installed in 1996. It finally blew last month, but given that I was paying attention it did give me plenty of warning by way of visible rust bubbles starting to form around the seams.
A lifespan of around three decades is exceptional for a storage tank water heater, so I really can’t complain. The thing came with the house. I replaced it with a zooty hybrid heat pump model which by my admittedly rather fuzzy math will pay for itself in roughly… five years. (Before anyone asks, the Technology Connections video didn’t have anything to do with it. That was always my plan for whenever the old one’s number finally came up.)
Mine came with my house as well. It says it was installed in 2001 on it. Been in this house for 10 years, so I ain’t mad at all. I got me an A.O Smith for $550 with a 6 year warranty.
I feel like I’m near the end of life for mine. I kinda want to be proactive and clean it, flush it, but at this point I feel like if I touch it at all it’s gonna break.
Yea, don’t do that…
Ive learned, you either regularly maintain systems or don’t touch them at all.
I’d definitely set the cost aside and watch. That’s what I did. I’ve been anticipating it to go out to be honest.
If you do drain it, and it is an electric one, remember to turn off the brraleaker(s) for the immersion heater(s). Most don’t have a sensor that kills power to the heaters when water is low, causing the immersion heaters to overheat in the open air and blow.
Who’s it made by? That’s a great run.
We replaced a 30 year old water heater last year. We love with very hard water too.
It’s an old 40Gals Rheem. Back when they made them good. Replaced it with an A.O Smith. Wasn’t too bad. $550 for a similar size and all.
We went the other way 🤣 40 -> 50 gal. Went with Bradford White.
I think Rheem is still top of the charts on consumer reports and others. The service we went with didn’t supply them though and we got a discount deal on water heater, fornace and AC. The furnace and AC are shackelford. It’s the off-name for Carrier. We had their AC and furnace for 30 years, so fingers crossed 🤣
I don’t need that much really. It’s just 4 of us and the old was more than enough. Didn’t want to spend more, ya know. My friend who’s replacing it recommended A.O smith over Rheem saying Rheem isn’t as good as they used to be. Same price anyway, so I went with his recommendation
It’s just the two of us but it’s cold ass Wisconsin and we love long baths and hot showers 🤣 good luck and I hope it outlives you
Much appreciated <3
Keep up with replacing the anode rod on the new one!
I’ll make sure to do that and also drain it every couple of years. Thanks for the reminder of course.
did you replace the anode rod during that time?
No sir, we don’t do that round here. Lol.
then 25 years is impressive
