Do you know how to turn off the water heater when it’s leaking? Many people don’t.
Our Master Plumber, Adam Proctor, has this to say about leaking water heaters:
There are two kinds of water heater leaks: large ones and small ones. The pans underneath will not handle a large leak. This is especially important if your water heater is above or attached to living space. Water always flows downhill and you can’t always tell which way it is going. A pan located in the garage can still overflow and damage items in your garage or worse, go into living spaces. “Which way is really downhill?”
When you notice that your water heater has sprung a leak, here’s what to do first:
In a word, yes. The water heater in attic was the brain child of builders trying to figure out how to add more living space to the homes they were building. The newer the home, the higher the chance that you have a water heater installed in the attic.
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