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re: Water Heater Replacement Cost?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:42 pm to leeman101
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:42 pm to leeman101
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replaced the sacrificial anode ($25) in one about two years ago
honestly, I need to start doing this every few years. The heater would probably last 20myears if you flushed annually and changed the anode every 5 years.
Did you take it out with an impact driver. Or whst?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:39 pm to Spankum
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Did you take it out with an impact driver
Yes. Tried a cheater bar at first. No budge. Got one at Harbor Freight on clearance. I feel like it has paid for itself.
Had to dig through insulation to get to it.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:49 pm to leeman101
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Tried a cheater bar at first. No budge
I did the same thing…thought I was gonna twist the supply lines into a pretzel!
Ended up borrowing an impact from a buddy.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 12:49 am to Spankum
I hear with the American Standard water heaters you don't have to dig through insulation to get to the anode.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 12:25 pm to jmon
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expansion tank,
Had a State WH installed a year ago. It's documentation was full of stuff about expansion tanks. So I asked the installer. Increasingly the tank is required by code in more states. Some manufacturers ship one with the heater. The benefits are associated with very cold weather. As of now Louisiana does not require.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 8:01 pm to Spankum
I bought one and first plumber I called I offered him $500 cash for him to install.
I helped him get it in attic he took care of the rest.
Same situation as you,not emergency just knew it was only a matter of time and it would become an emergency.
I helped him get it in attic he took care of the rest.
Same situation as you,not emergency just knew it was only a matter of time and it would become an emergency.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 8:53 pm to Spankum
My 40 gal. $2200 installed. And that was a plumber in the family!
Posted on 11/6/26 at 7:31 am to Commander Rabb
After I paid that homer $1600 in labor he said "Im about to head to the woods, look at this big buck on my camera!" I said hell man with that lick and whatever else you have racked up today go ahead and take the rest of the week off
Posted on 11/6/26 at 8:58 am to Spankum
Is it an option to get it out of the attic? I paid to get that done and now me and a friend can just connect a new one. I hardly ever agree with insurance companies but if they said you cannot have a water heater in the attic I couldn't disagree with them
Posted on 11/11/26 at 11:33 am to Tarps99
You need a recirculation pump on both of those systems. I put one in at my house last weekend and went from stopwatch timed 82 seconds for hot water at kitchen sink to 10 seconds. And it isn't a slow build, after 10 seconds its the same temp at the sink as it was when it left the water heater.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 12:03 pm to Tree_Fall
Thought it was just another trick for engineers to make some extra commission but with the shotty quality of water heaters being built today I decided to put one in my house. When I installed the recirc pump it made it an even more closed system (house is already isolated from the city at meter connection) and looking at the expansion/pressure increase for 50 gallons of water going from 70 degrees to 125 degrees I decided it was worth it. That water has nowhere to go so it pushes out on every part of the system...heater tank, water lines/fittings, fixture internals etc. Expansion tank gives it something to push against.
FWIW They do not do anything if they were not inflated to match city water supply psi before installing!
They can cause strange issues once they fail as well. My cousin was getting hot water through their cold water lines and feared scalding. The 3rd plumber he called showed him the internal balloon had failed and was letting hot water bypass through the cold supply.
FWIW They do not do anything if they were not inflated to match city water supply psi before installing!
They can cause strange issues once they fail as well. My cousin was getting hot water through their cold water lines and feared scalding. The 3rd plumber he called showed him the internal balloon had failed and was letting hot water bypass through the cold supply.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 2:30 pm to bonstonker
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I bought one and first plumber I called I offered him $500 cash for him to install.
This is the way that it should be done!
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