Universal Plumbing | Extend Your Water Heater


		Extend The Live Cycle Of Your Investment

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Did you know you can extend the life of your water heater and increase its efficiency by draining sediment from the tank every six months or so? Sediment forces your unit to work harder. Draining sediment is easy. Just turn off the cold water inlet at the top of your tank; use a garden hose or buckets to divert the exiting water to a drain, then turn on the drain valve at the bottom of your tank. When you're done, just turn off the bottom drain and turn on the water inlet. Another economizer is installing a water heater blanket to help hold the heat in your tank. And just plain turning down your water heater thermostat can help, too. Extend the life of your water heater. Protect your investment.

Water Heater Destroyer #1 - Sediment Build Up

• Dirt, Mineral Deposits,
• Rust, Gunk, Muck
• Causes Heating
• Element Burn-Out
• Can Increase Energy Use
• Can initiate over-heating
• Triggers aggravating noise
• Causes annoying vibrations
• Allows bacterial to grow
• Produces an
• unpleasant odor

Does the inside of your water heater look like this?

Water Heater Destroyer #2 - Internal Rusting

• Rusting causes
• premature death.
• The Sacrificial Anode
• (hero of the water heater)
• Slowly corrodes away
• to save your tank
• Fights internal rusting
• Increases the life of
• your water heater
• Should be checked each
• year to insure that it is still
• able to protect your tank

The effects of rusting below.

Water Heater Destroyer #3 - External Leakage

• Initiates rusting from the outside in
• (usually on the top of the heater)
• Prematurely destroys a newly in stalled water heater
• Corrodes your hot water outlet and cold water inlet piping
• Can also corrode the draft diverter and flue
• Could cause a dangerous electrical shock