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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3250617" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>Those guys are probably right, but if it's on well water and doesn't have a water softener, it's entirely possible that the tank is full of minerals. My folks bought a farm about 10 years ago, and their water heater never would get the water very hot. We figured the element was burned out (it was an electric water heater), so my brother and I went to Home Depot and bought a new one.</p><p></p><p>We dang near couldn't get the old element out, and had to pull it out in pieces because the tank was about half full of calcium from the well water. It's amazing that they were getting any hot water at all. </p><p></p><p>We solved that problem by buying my folks a new water heater, and my dad had a water softener installed before we hooked it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3250617, member: 26737"] Those guys are probably right, but if it's on well water and doesn't have a water softener, it's entirely possible that the tank is full of minerals. My folks bought a farm about 10 years ago, and their water heater never would get the water very hot. We figured the element was burned out (it was an electric water heater), so my brother and I went to Home Depot and bought a new one. We dang near couldn't get the old element out, and had to pull it out in pieces because the tank was about half full of calcium from the well water. It's amazing that they were getting any hot water at all. We solved that problem by buying my folks a new water heater, and my dad had a water softener installed before we hooked it up. [/QUOTE]
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