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Sunday morning Bob Kendrick called me to tell me that he had to replace the water heater in his rental house. I mentioned that mine was starting to look rather old and said I was about to look into alternatives such as an on demand water heater.

30 min. later I had water in my kitchen floor and the cat had not knocked over his water bowl. I opened the closet and sure enough there was water running out of the bottom of the water heater. Sunday I had commited myself to helping a friend move furniture so I cut off the supply to the water heater and heded out the door.

So today I went to Lowes in search of a water heater and after denting my Lowes card I headed home with my shiny new water heater. When I got home I noticed the doorway to where the water heater is located is only 17" wide. The old unit is 18" and the new one is 20". Damn. So I took the door frame out.



Will it go in?



Yes just barely.

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

At least you did not have to dig 6 or 7 feet in the ground to find you water leak.... argh.

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David Teague
2015 Lexus IS 250c
1994 Honda Del Sol HS 39
2009 Dodge Journey R/T
http://teaguefamily.us

Friggin' AMEN to that. Argh.

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'92 Prelude
'76 Celica

at least your water heater isn't in the ATTIC like mine was. Leaking created a big issue, not to mention lugging the F'ing thing up there was a BITCH. Keep in mind, we have no attic ladder, I have to use a stepladder to get up there. you've got nothing to complain about. . .

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2012 MX-5 Sport SUV

Did that last year.

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

My ex-boss had the same issue. He was so pissed off about it he went to the expense of having it re-plumbed from the attic into his garage.

Our new house has a storage room in the garage and the water heater is inside. If it leaks the concrete gets wet.

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Vincent Keene
'06 Ford Mustang GT (track rat)
'15 Dodge Charger R/T (yeah, it's got a HEMI!)
'07 Ford Fusion SE (205,000 miles and counting)
'98 Chevy Z-24 (retired)
'93 Acura Integra (Team SWB 24HOL Car)

Yeah, we have one of those, except there is a living room on the other side of the closet, and water doesn't always run the direction you want it to.

Scott

Amen to THAT! Twice when I was a kid our house had that problem. One was just a pipe that burst in the laundry room that flooded the entire house, the other was when the hot water heater tank busted and did the same thing. It was in the "storage room" outside, too, but all that was on the same concrete slab.

We also had a water leak one time that the only way we knew about it was the water meter was moving with everything off and you could "hear" water moving in the pipes in a bathroom near the front of the house. No visible signs of water otherwise. None. We thought it had to be under the slab near that pipe. Jackhammered out a hole about a foot in diameter. The slab was nearly a foot thick at that spot! Then dug a little sideways and found the pipe. Hmm, dry. Dug down with a small hand shovel as far as we could reach through the hole, everything still dry. But that was near where the supply turned straight out the front of the house to the meter. So we refilled the hole and patched it.

Then I started digging in front of the house for a couple hours every day after school. Took a couple days of digging a trench across the front of the house just to find the pipe. Dry. Started digging along the pipe toward the road. Finally found the leak in a coupling between two pieces of pipe. It was 2.5 feet deep and 13 feet from the front of the house. And we could hear water moving INSIDE the house from that leak. Amazing.


--Donnie