Well CRAP!

[MonzaRacer]

Well felt wet carpet going into bedroom but wrote it off to snow from shoes as I had just came in from outside, WELL its worse now,,,,,.
MY DANG WATER HEATER IS LEAKING!
Luckily I had a shut off on it as I had to replace the element a few yrs back but now got wet floors.
When does it end?

[Randy67]

When does it end?

When you die.

Seriously that does suck. I've put two water heaters in my house (electric) in 11 years. Both started leaking from the top around the pressure relief valve. Next one will be a better unit, enough of the Big Box store low cost (cheapie) heaters.

[wedgehead]

My hot water heater ruptured about a year ago. It ran water into my house for about 7 hrs. I have a converted garage that is lower than the rest of the house. It filled up that room with about 3" of water and the rest of the house was soaked. Talk about a nightmare situation. All of the hardwood flooring had to be replaced heck all the flooring was replaced. the kitchen cabinets were ruined. the sheetrock had to be replaced in most rooms. It was not fun. My insurance did come through for us though.

[trapin]

It never ends my friend. It never ends.

[Brandon Miller]

Luckily when our water heater went south, it just ran out the garage door. It pays when your garage floor is about 2 ft lower than the rest of your hose.

[676869addict]

i woke to a slab leak ( copper water pipe running thru concrete slap ) on christmas day. had to tear out three walls to get to manifolds. rerouted water pipes thru the ceiling. my insurance would not cover it, said it was neglect on my part. never the less got a newly sheet rocked living room. and i just finished the master bathroom last week, came out great. all in all about 3500 out of pocket( ouch ). but its done

[MonzaRacer]

Well new water just got turned on about 30 minutes ago, dang thing was a bioch to get it out but going in wasnt as bad as I though.
Big thing I worried about was using the gatorbite quick connects on quest/pex with piece of white pex to extend the out line. so far full pressure and no leaks last time I looked, now just gotta get old one out of wash room and dryer back in!
Hoping for a hot shower tonite, not sure how long it takes to heat 30 gallon of water but hopefully not over 3 or 4 hours.

[minendrews68]

Man, know what you mean....I changed one in my house Wednesday. I've got a 240 gallon saltwater reef tank and when I came home Wednesday for lunch I went down stairs to check on my tank I noticed water on the floor and thought CRAP! my tank has over flowed, (or worse it has sprung a leak) . Nope, my hot water heater did. I went to HD to get another one and the guy there told me that he had sold 40+ hot water heaters this week alone!

Carl

[Joey_H]

We had a pipe burst late at night in the kitchen once, right under the sink. I heard some noise, got out of bed to investigate, and the entire kitchen floor was covered with water. We kept the dry dog food under the sink, the gush of water knocked over the container and there was dog food floating all over the kitchen. What a mess!!

[Lx5.4]

Monzaracer, if you haven't found out by now, you should have hot water by now. Normally it takes about 1 to 2 hrs to heat up a gas water heater or about 3 hrs for an elec. one. Just a pointer if you have 'hard water' & no softener you should drain your tang about every 2 years to help to have it lates a little longer, that is the main reason for the drain cok at the bottom of your water heater.


For the rest out there stay away from the tankless water heaters, they suck. they cost more than you will ever know!!! There is more than just installing one. You should always upsize you Gas lines & water lines to meet the demands that it will need to opperate correctly.

[MonzaRacer]

Well looked at the tankless, if I had cash to up grade the electric I would have went that way, was in at friends 2 story house, he has a tankless for whole house and loves it, when we cleaned up after swimming it was hot almost immediately as his has a recycle line that helps with run time but it was pretty neat, he said next time he would probably go with individuals as it would run less, he has a large one in shop and 2 small ones for wash up and washing cars and the shop ones actually dont change his electric bill but big one did(shop has separate electric bill, he has 4 kids and electric bill went down $80 with tankless.
I did notice new one has MUCH better insulation as the outside is absolutely cold to the touch and old one heated up wash room, and now cold water in sweats and never did before.
Its done, down the road I hope to fix trailer back up as it will only go down in value so if I fix it up it will be cheaper than buying new house, so will probably go tankless later on and use this one for shop/garage,,, who knows may just leave it alone its working.