Water Heater again.......

[SA1911a1]

They just don't last anymore.... I have a tankless in my new house, Unlimited hot water. It's nice.

This /\ I have a tankless Bosch that was installed in 2005 and still going strong. Only thing I've had to do is twice I had to pull the flow stem out and replace two o'rings that had shrunk. The flow stem is a knob in the front attached to the main control valve that's like a faucet stem. It has two screws that hold it in and it's easy to get to. I used A/C o'rings I have from my days repairing auto A/C.

Is your heater gas or electric?

Bosch makes good stuff, several years ago I swapped our dishwasher for a Bosch and it was a world above the previous one. The other one sounded like the junk collection truck running down a potholed street, you can not hear the Bosch running. Tank type heaters have an advantage in hurricane zones. When the power goes down and the water goes off, you still have 50 gallons of potable water in the house.

Mine is Natural Gas and my mothers is on her Propane. We have a lot of power outages here in Louisiana but mine keeps working because it's a non electric model. My mothers has an electric fan but if the power goes out due to a major outage I hook her generator up to a panel we had installed just for that purpose. It has manual lock out I use to remove the house from the grid and only run it on the generator. I had to do this when hurricane Laura came through. We had a major outage for a lot of northern Louisiana and we were without power for almost a week. I usually have about 20 gallons of gas on hand for the lawn tractors and keep the generators full. Both take about 6 gallons. All the gas stations were down so by the end of the week I was robbing the mowers for gas to run the gens.

Been there, done that... I was out of power for almost two weeks that last time one blew through here.

[ffuries]

They just don't last anymore.... I have a tankless in my new house, Unlimited hot water. It's nice.

This /\ I have a tankless Bosch that was installed in 2005 and still going strong. Only thing I've had to do is twice I had to pull the flow stem out and replace two o'rings that had shrunk. The flow stem is a knob in the front attached to the main control valve that's like a faucet stem. It has two screws that hold it in and it's easy to get to. I used A/C o'rings I have from my days repairing auto A/C.

Is your heater gas or electric?

Bosch makes good stuff, several years ago I swapped our dishwasher for a Bosch and it was a world above the previous one. The other one sounded like the junk collection truck running down a potholed street, you can not hear the Bosch running. Tank type heaters have an advantage in hurricane zones. When the power goes down and the water goes off, you still have 50 gallons of potable water in the house.

Mine is Natural Gas and my mothers is on her Propane. We have a lot of power outages here in Louisiana but mine keeps working because it's a non electric model. My mothers has an electric fan but if the power goes out due to a major outage I hook her generator up to a panel we had installed just for that purpose. It has manual lock out I use to remove the house from the grid and only run it on the generator. I had to do this when hurricane Laura came through. We had a major outage for a lot of northern Louisiana and we were without power for almost a week. I usually have about 20 gallons of gas on hand for the lawn tractors and keep the generators full. Both take about 6 gallons. All the gas stations were down so by the end of the week I was robbing the mowers for gas to run the gens.

Been there, done that... I was out of power for almost two weeks that last time one blew through here.

Yeap no power for 2 weeks, took an additional 2 weeks to get a plumber out here to fix the gas leak. Took a hot shower that night and the water heater died the next day. Took a few weeks to get a new one, and get it installed.

Cold showers in Nov are not fun at all.......!

As soon as the last of these repairs are wrapped up I'm having a full house generator ran off natural gas put it.

[WeldonHunter]

They just don't last anymore.... I have a tankless in my new house, Unlimited hot water. It's nice.

This /\ I have a tankless Bosch that was installed in 2005 and still going strong. Only thing I've had to do is twice I had to pull the flow stem out and replace two o'rings that had shrunk. The flow stem is a knob in the front attached to the main control valve that's like a faucet stem. It has two screws that hold it in and it's easy to get to. I used A/C o'rings I have from my days repairing auto A/C.

Is your heater gas or electric?

Bosch makes good stuff, several years ago I swapped our dishwasher for a Bosch and it was a world above the previous one. The other one sounded like the junk collection truck running down a potholed street, you can not hear the Bosch running. Tank type heaters have an advantage in hurricane zones. When the power goes down and the water goes off, you still have 50 gallons of potable water in the house.

Mine is Natural Gas and my mothers is on her Propane. We have a lot of power outages here in Louisiana but mine keeps working because it's a non electric model. My mothers has an electric fan but if the power goes out due to a major outage I hook her generator up to a panel we had installed just for that purpose. It has manual lock out I use to remove the house from the grid and only run it on the generator. I had to do this when hurricane Laura came through. We had a major outage for a lot of northern Louisiana and we were without power for almost a week. I usually have about 20 gallons of gas on hand for the lawn tractors and keep the generators full. Both take about 6 gallons. All the gas stations were down so by the end of the week I was robbing the mowers for gas to run the gens.

Been there, done that... I was out of power for almost two weeks that last time one blew through here.

Yeap no power for 2 weeks, took an additional 2 weeks to get a plumber out here to fix the gas leak. Took a hot shower that night and the water heater died the next day. Took a few weeks to get a new one, and get it installed.

Cold showers in Nov are not fun at all.......!

As soon as the last of these repairs are wrapped up I'm having a full house generator ran off natural gas put it.

My Neighbors across the road have a whole house natural gas generator, a Generac. I just have two little 6500-7500W Generac's but they needed a whole house gen a few years ago because Danny was doing dialysis at home so they had to have power all the time no exceptions. He's since had a kidney transplant. The good thing about their generator is if the power is out and I hear their genny running I know it's not just me so I don't need to call about the power being out up to my place only.

[ksbanker]

Well, I'm not a banker anymore. Now I'm involved in the plumbing business. My advice is to steer clear of Rheem if you end up having to replace. Rheem has had a serious problem with their gas valves recently and we have replaced under warranty at least 70 in the last 3 months.

What SA1911a says is true regarding warranties. Anymore I would personally have it installed by a licensed plumber and pay for the longest warranty they offer. The longest we offer is 12 years and in 12 year period you are nearly guaranteed a warranty replacement.

Tankless water heaters are very popular but do seem to have occasional "lemons." If you go the tankless route, annual maintenance is very very important to the help ensure the longevity of your water heater, so don't skip it.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Well, I'm not a banker anymore. Now I'm involved in the plumbing business. My advice is to steer clear of Rheem if you end up having to replace. Rheem has had a serious problem with their gas valves recently and we have replaced under warranty at least 70 in the last 3 months.

What SA1911a says is true regarding warranties. Anymore I would personally have it installed by a licensed plumber and pay for the longest warranty they offer. The longest we offer is 12 years and in 12 year period you are nearly guaranteed a warranty replacement.

Tankless water heaters are very popular but do seem to have occasional "lemons." If you go the tankless route, annual maintenance is very very important to the help ensure the longevity of your water heater, so don't skip it.

That's a shame, we had a Rheem water heater in the shop from 1971-2013. It never leaked, just the elements burned out.