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Originally Posted by Toymeister
You certainly can get twenty years if you flushed it annually.
As to your second point a new 40 gallon heater provides 28 gallons. Not because 28 gallons is forty, rather 28 gallons of cold water displacing 28 gallons of hot makes it so cold that it's not effectively functional as the heating elements cannot over come the temperature loss quickly enough. At 28 gallons the tank is full of 85 degree water which feels cool.
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I don't see anything frugal in this post..... I see it as factual. Something that is sometimes lost on this site.
Although it was "gas" I replaced my last HWH at approx. 16 years (still worked fine) because I wanted something more efficient and TECO gave me a $400.00 rebate to do it. The 40 gal. gas HWH that I purchased cost only a little more than that and had electric flue dampener and electric ignition. I would like to add - I have always flushed my HWH twice a year. I write dates down on the side of the heater with a pencil.
