Household Hints & Help

They don't want any water heater more than 10 years old according to the agent. We do have a leak sensor so if it failed that way - which is what would damage the house - we'd get a warning.

We have moderately hard water - comes out of a limestone aquifer - and have never done the yearly drainage the manual recommended. So Thursday we're getting a new heat pump water heater. I wanted another solar one, but the closest installation company is over three hundred miles away in any direction. Not paying for the travel and overnight stays that would involve!

In my old house, which we had for thirty five + years the original water heater never failed. The pipes to it did, rotted the floor underneath and the water heater dropped through it. Even then the water heater was still working! We'd already made a deal to get rid of the house so the new owners had to fix it.