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Posted by mcp6453 on December 11, 2009, 8:40 pm
My State Industries electic, low profile, 40-gallon, six-year water
heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have a
failure.
Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing? I'd
like to install the replacement without having to do any plumbing. The
spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen at Lowes, but it's
really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters at Home Depot were in
cardboard boxes, so I could not see the connections.
Are the State units any better or worse than others?
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Posted by casey on December 11, 2009, 8:47 pm
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> My State Industries electic, low profile, 40-gallon, six-year water
> heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have a
> failure.
> Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing? I'd
> like to install the replacement without having to do any plumbing. The
> spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen at Lowes, but it's
> really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters at Home Depot were in
> cardboard boxes, so I could not see the connections.
> Are the State units any better or worse than others?
Chances are you will have to do plumbing. I have a Bradford White, and had
to do plumbing on it, even tho it was a 40 gal, just like the previous
Bradford.
You didn't say if it's gas or electric, if gas, maybe more plumbing.
I'll tell ya, where I work, they have a 13 yr old State, which was rated as
a 9 yr. I do believe I may go with State, my next time around.
I think the engineers sit there and think, how can we piss off our
residential customers. So they will make things 1" shorter or taller!
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Posted by Percival P. Cassidy on December 11, 2009, 8:55 pm
mcp6453 wrote:
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> My State Industries electic, low profile, 40-gallon, six-year water
> heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have a
> failure.
>
> Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing? I'd
> like to install the replacement without having to do any plumbing. The
> spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen at Lowes, but it's
> really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters at Home Depot were in
> cardboard boxes, so I could not see the connections.
>
> Are the State units any better or worse than others?
In some places it is *required* to have flexible water connections to
the water heater, and even if it's not required it's probably not a bad
idea. If you have flexible connections there shouldn't be much of a
problem even if the connections on the new heater aren't exactly the
same as the those on the old one.
Perce
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Posted by Jon Danniken on December 11, 2009, 9:16 pm
Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
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> mcp6453 wrote:
>> My State Industries electic, low profile, 40-gallon, six-year water
>> heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have
>> a failure.
>> Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing?
>> I'd like to install the replacement without having to do any
>> plumbing. The spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen
>> at Lowes, but it's really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters
>> at Home Depot were in cardboard boxes, so I could not see the
>> connections. Are the State units any better or worse than others?
> In some places it is *required* to have flexible water connections to
> the water heater, and even if it's not required it's probably not a
> bad idea. If you have flexible connections there shouldn't be much of
> a problem even if the connections on the new heater aren't exactly the
> same as the those on the old one.
> Perce
Aye, flexible is good. Get the corrugated copper ones, and make a mandrel
out of something to bend them around (like a round post or 3"-4" pvc/abs
pipe).
When you buy them, make sure you get the ones that haven't been "pre-bent"
by bored customers.
Jon
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Posted by Oren on December 11, 2009, 9:47 pm
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:16:25 -0800, "Jon Danniken"
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>Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
>> mcp6453 wrote:
>>> My State Industries electic, low profile, 40-gallon, six-year water
>>> heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have
>>> a failure.
>>> Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing?
>>> I'd like to install the replacement without having to do any
>>> plumbing. The spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen
>>> at Lowes, but it's really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters
>>> at Home Depot were in cardboard boxes, so I could not see the
>>> connections. Are the State units any better or worse than others?
>> In some places it is *required* to have flexible water connections to
>> the water heater, and even if it's not required it's probably not a
>> bad idea. If you have flexible connections there shouldn't be much of
>> a problem even if the connections on the new heater aren't exactly the
>> same as the those on the old one.
>> Perce
>Aye, flexible is good. Get the corrugated copper ones, and make a mandrel
>out of something to bend them around (like a round post or 3"-4" pvc/abs
>pipe).
>When you buy them, make sure you get the ones that haven't been "pre-bent"
>by bored customers.
>Jon
I use this type. No corrosion and NOT a leak in 5 years.
http://softsolder.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/cimg4029-flexible-tube-heat-trap.jpg
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> heater is almost 10 years old. I'm going to replace it before I have a
> failure.
> Are the water connections on the top of the unit standard spacing? I'd
> like to install the replacement without having to do any plumbing. The
> spacing appears to be the same as the ones I've seen at Lowes, but it's
> really hard to tell for sure. The water heaters at Home Depot were in
> cardboard boxes, so I could not see the connections.
> Are the State units any better or worse than others?