Re: Hot Water Heater Preventative Measure
- From: "Mark" <makolber@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jun 2006 20:06:53 -0700
buffalobill wrote:
see:
http://www.waterheaterrescue.com/pages/WHRpages/English/Longevity/water-heater-preventive-maintenance.html
Les wrote:
I live in my condo the 4 summer months a year, and it is vacant otherwise.
Each year, I shut off the breaker to the hot water heater and shutoff the
water. When I turned things back on recently I notice a small leak on the
bottom of the hot water heater that the plumber said required replacing,
which I did. I also have a water softener which I also shutoff when not
there.
The previous hot water heater was only 8 years old when it failed. That
seems relatively a short time. The plumber said that water softeners reduce
the life of a hot water heater.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be doing something else? I have never
drained the waqter from the valve on the bottom of the hot water heater.
Your comments / suggestions would be appreciated.
keeping the temperature set as low as possible also helps a lot.
Mark
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