In your water heater that is. Our water heater was built mid 2015, and we bought the house in late 2017 and I haven’t touched it since. The rod appeared original and honestly had a ton of life left. I find that strange, since I’ve seen reports of people saying theirs was shot after a few years. My reason for replacing was 1) I had no idea what shape it would be in and 2) we have a mild sulfur smell in our hot water sometimes (we’re on a community well with hard water), so I installed a zinc-aluminum rod to hopefully solve that issue.
What a bear to remove though! My heater is under my stairs so there’s barely any room to work. Breaker bar won’t fit. I wanted to use my impact but the impact socket was too wide to fit through the plastic ‘grommet’ that surrounded the head. I peeled that off and was able to fit the socket, and took it off with my 1/2” impact.
What a bear to remove though! My heater is under my stairs so there’s barely any room to work. Breaker bar won’t fit. I wanted to use my impact but the impact socket was too wide to fit through the plastic ‘grommet’ that surrounded the head. I peeled that off and was able to fit the socket, and took it off with my 1/2” impact.