It's that time of the year again to pull that water hose out and drain that heater. Draining a water heater from sediment build up can prolong the life of your water heater. Sediment makes the burner works twice as hard to heat the water. If you would like to see what sediment build up looks like, well it looks like pourage. As the water heats up, it hardens the water deposits in the fresh water coming into the tank. Once hardened the deposits fall to the bottom of tank. It sits there and builds and builds and builds till you get so much it just cant heat any longer. A sign of this build up is rumbling in the tank. It will only rumble as the water is being heated. So if you ever heard your water heater rumble its time to try and drain some sediment or just replace your tank. Though its possibly to late to actually remove all the sediment in your tank once you hear rumbling, it might help to drain.
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