Recent content by Andrew LB

A few months ago my elderly neighbor woke up to her entire ground floor of her 2 story home with 1-3" of water everywhere. I got everything shut off for her, and ended up spending my weekend removing as much water with my wet\dry vac as humanly possible in order to minimize the damage. The cause...

I know this sounds like dumb question, but I wouldn't be asking without good reason. A few months ago my neighbor two houses over, an elderly woman in her late 80's called me in a panic saying there was 2-3 inches of water flooding the entire bottom floor. I rushed over, shut off her water and...

I wouldn't recommend it for 99% of the population to attempt, much like I wouldn't recommend doing a full re-wire of a 3 bedroom house from 4 circuits to 16 where an electrician friend simply did a final inspection before the city inspector came and said it was one of the cleanest jobs he's ever...

I've been doing a lot of reading this afternoon and came across the thread regarding the Honeywell controls on Rheem gas water heaters being problematic. Is this still the case or have they done revisions to the hardware? Rheem's website shows that most of the Ultra Low NOX water heaters, even...

When the new heater gets installed, just for shits and giggles, i'm planning on cutting the tank open to see what the inside looks like. I'll make sure to post pictures. Here's what the annode hex bolt looks like.

... and by the look of things on the various forums i've been browsing, they definitely don't seem to make them like they used to. My parents bought the house in 1973 with who knows what kind of water heater and i was born in 1978. That heater started having issues in 1984 when they did a lot...