I was planning to upgrade to a heat pump unit soon anyway, but I ended up having to get another gas one because I need it now and don’t have time to run a new 220 line from the breaker box. Should have done this last year, damn it. Now I’m dealing with this one that is both not heating and leaking (likely related).
Ordered it at 1:59 PM and just barely made the 2pm cutoff for same day delivery, so that’s nice. So I now get to spend my evening replacing the hot water heater. Yay :-/
Good luck to you!
What amazes me is that every hot water heater of roughly the same size across all brands uses the exact same position for the gas input so you can just swap the stub from the union to the new tank and it’ll connect right up. This has been the case for tanks I’ve replaced that were originally put in 30 years ago.
Yep, at least according to the images of the one I just bought so here’s hoping this goes smoothly. Hopefully the intake/output connections are the same size too. It didn’t list them and I didn’t have time to read the manual without missing the same-day delivery cutoff.
If the water lines aren’t lined up, a couple of sharkbite connectors and a bit of pex can go a long way to making that easy. The exhaust might be more of a pain if it’s shorter than the old one.
I just got the old one disconnected and pulled out and the new one unboxed, and thankfully everything is in the exact same spots and same sizes/threads as the old one. After I eat a quick bite, I’m gonna clean behind and around where it goes and should have the new one installed shortly after. 🤞
