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Originally Posted by jrref
You need to find new plumbers or you misunderstood them.
With a water softener, your hot water tank may have less life because the softener will introduce some salt in the water slightly accelerating the corrosion process in the tank.
There is an anode rod in the hot water tank that sacrifices itself instead of the tank corroding. This anode rod ususally lasts for the warrenty life of the tank depending on your water supply. Once it's used up it's only a matter of time until the tank corrodes and you have a leak. You can change the anode rod at a cost of about $300 every 3-5 years but no one does this. We have pulled anode rods out of hot water tanks here in the Villages and they are usually all used up in about 6-7 years.
But you "can be that guy" who brags about keeping their tank hot water heater for 20-30 years and never come on to social media to tell us about the disaster you had when the tank eventually failed. You should definetly change a 10 year or older tank unless it has a 12 year warrenty which some replacement models have.
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Thanks, but my preference is to listen to folks that do stuff for a living. My water heater in PA did last for 21 years but thought because of the heat down here that might have an impact. The plumbers we talked to here are well known, one does most of the plumbing work for the new construction. If I become "that guy" I will let you know.....by the way where did you get that 30 years.