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<blockquote data-quote="MacFromOK" data-source="post: 3238233" data-attributes="member: 40864"><p>If you have an electric (as we do), I'd say the main thing is to get a steel tank, no matter where it's purchased. I assume gas ones always have a steel tank.</p><p></p><p>They may leak eventually, but won't generally rupture catastrophically like the plastic/poly/etc ones can (this happened to a neighbor several year ago).</p><p></p><p>Also... if you can get a "sand hog" (or something similar) design, it will greatly increase the life of the tank. Ours had a PVC pipe insert on the intake side, that goes down near the bottom of the tank and curves around about half a turn.</p><p></p><p>This stirs any loose sediment every time you turn on the hot water, keeping it suspended and flowing out of the tank rather than settling to the bottom and building up.</p><p></p><p>I actually kept this pipe from one of ours and put it in the regular model we have now.</p><p><img src="/images/smilies/new/drunk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":drunk2:" title="Drunk 2 :drunk2:" data-shortname=":drunk2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacFromOK, post: 3238233, member: 40864"] If you have an electric (as we do), I'd say the main thing is to get a steel tank, no matter where it's purchased. I assume gas ones always have a steel tank. They may leak eventually, but won't generally rupture catastrophically like the plastic/poly/etc ones can (this happened to a neighbor several year ago). Also... if you can get a "sand hog" (or something similar) design, it will greatly increase the life of the tank. Ours had a PVC pipe insert on the intake side, that goes down near the bottom of the tank and curves around about half a turn. This stirs any loose sediment every time you turn on the hot water, keeping it suspended and flowing out of the tank rather than settling to the bottom and building up. I actually kept this pipe from one of ours and put it in the regular model we have now. :drunk2: [/QUOTE]
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