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Re: tankless water heater, anyone ?
Old 01-16-2007, 12:01 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by BUM
I recently replaced my water heater (freebie lifetime item from Lowes!) and Holy crap! the damn thing musta weighed 200 lbs. It was filled with sand and beach crud! Amazing, and it was on the second floor
Moral of the story.... if you're by-the-sea, get the lifetime warrantee unit
Another moral would be the quarterly bucket-flush out the drain connection at the bottom until it the grit stops coming out.

When we have a water conditioner upstream, though, we never get any grit.
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