Smelly Hot Water

Update and bump: I finally got around to replacing the anode rod today with a zinc aluminum rod purchased on line. I took this picture of the old and new anodes:

As you can see, the old anode is pretty much shot. When I flushed the tank out, all sorts of black junk came [...]

Hot water heaters

A hot water heater is one of those things that nobody really thinks about until it is broken. Nothing worse than taking a cold shower on a January morning or having several inches of water on the basement floor because the hot water tank leaked.

There are several ways to heat water with several different [...]