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No, we have done this before.... and a combination of both the rubber gasket and the wax rings have worked too...

Our town has 20 parts hard water so your water is pretty good

you probably have a grounding issue inside your home to eat up 3 water heaters so quickly... 1. check your ground for your breaker box to see if it is still got good contact... 2 just install a new ground somewhere near the heater --if you are in the basement just drill a hole into the...

You will never break even on the investment.... the heater will leak before you do recoup the money in 30 years,...

you should try building up a couple of wax rings and see if this works... we have done that before also that is some really old copper I see on that back wall which scares me

Well did you win the battle or did you get yourself in trouble??

go ahead and attempt to change one... its not very easy to do... once in a while they will comeout easy but most times you need two people to do the job one guy has to hold the heater to keep it from turning, spinning on you and the other guy needs a HUGE socket and pry bar to get the rod to...

We have run into this many times... I have had to melt the plastic sleeve that goes down the hole to the anode rod with a red hot screwdriver and then pry the whole piece out with needle nosed pliers.... THEN and only THEN you can get the socket down into the hole and it will fit onto the...

if you got it from Lowes, they are sub-standard compaired to the units sold at the supply houses... I suggest you just claim it is leaking and have it replaced under warranty if you think something is fishey with the steel in that water heater,,,, they wont fight you much over this...

It will wear out the water heater faster.... it will thin down the copper pipes and eventually you will get pin holes in the copper it cost more energy to constantly heat the water Also, it will spoil your wife and kids and they will come to expect it.... The next thing you know they will...

That is a lot of trouble you are going through just to sell a used water heater

you would be wise to change out the whole line because the last guy must have used something not legal for gas installs...

Yes its fun.. I have had to take a sawzall and cut out the whole kitchen cabinet before just to get the 40 gallon electric heater out of the space... of course it had been leaking into the crawl space for years and was sunk a few inches into the floor We put down some new plywood over the...

you are taking all the fun out of installing a water heater buried under a sink...

Now, now, lets all play nice and all try to get along....

it would be helpful if you posted a video or pretty pictures please

send a video...... I am not going to speculate and figure this out without seeing it

Now, I could be wrong about this and they might only last about 95 years... I dont want you getting mad and coming after me in the next life....

you are good for about 200 years.... I would not worry about it..... if you need to do something to ease your mind, just take some tar pitch and heat it up to a liquid and then paint the hangers and pipe with a brush....

smack it with a hammer