Life cycle planning standard (EULDHA) for a commercial water heater is 10
years.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin C.
Tangora
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] True story: my hot water heaters on dfi wear out after 8
years.
We bought our 1904 Chicago house in 1975
and had to get a water heater pronto.
We called Sears & they did sale & install.
(50 gallon, burns gas.)
Still going. But my wife would be aghast
at the idea of my saying this out loud --
she thinks we were lucky it lasted all winter.
She's usually right.
I gather from various sources
that a 10-year lifetime is normal.
At 06:36 AM 4/8/2010, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>On 4/7/2010 10:20 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>Word on the street (actually, the dirt road) is that "they used to make
'em they'd last 25 years sonny, now they want 'em to break down".
>>
>>So, wassup wid dat? What was it that they used to make 'em like? This
is just for a seasonal house, electric, and we have two heaters, one for
showers, one for the kitchen laundry.
>
>c,
>
>I have no accurate clue for an answer but can say other things. Our water
heater uses fuel oil (Sun-Ray Oil Burner). It has been working for 20 years
without my thinking very much about it. I do not know when before that time
it was installed, it came with the house. It came with the house of which of
the former octogenarian owner when I asked how often the basement floods he
said never. The house did not start w/a basement, and within a half mile of
the Atlantic it is the only house around us w/ a basement... the previous
owner -- who was not a very tall guy -- dug out the basement beneath the
house deep enuf for him to stand in, I assume when it was dry, and cool in
summer. My wife says the maintenance folks don't want to touch the burner on
the hot water heater, afraid it will fall apart. So what I want to know is
why with the recent 1.5 feet of flood water in the basement that submerged
the burner unit did the damned thing stop working after all of these years?
Now, I m!
ight h
ave done something to forestall the situation but we have never had that
much water in the basement before and it was something of a surprise. My
wife won't call the maintenance folks until I get the water completely out
of the basement. In the mean time I am now looking into water heaters,
different types and energy sources and I notice that they are all rated at #
of warrant able years... I suspect maybe that lifespan has not so much to do
with the energy source as with the construction of the tanks and corrosion
from minerals in the water. My knee-jerk surmise is that water heaters work
better when the water is inside the tank and not outside of the tank.
Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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