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Old 03-06-2025, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Bay Kid View Post
My hot water heater is a 2004 located in the garage. It looks great and heats the water well. It doesn't have an expansion tank. Should I be looking to replace this now?
Mine is 27 years old. I guess they made them properly back then.

Other posters have changed their still-working ones at 5 years, 10 years, 12 years etc. etc. so how do you decide when to replace a perfectly-working one? Seems like guesswork to me.

Do whatever you feel comfortable with.