"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Tony Miklos" wrote in message
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john wrote:

Plus, I heard from one of the guys
working on my flooring..who said he bought a new water heater and it
didnt even last 6 months. It blew open and flooded his house.

LOL! Reminded me of a guy who tapped into city water lines and ran it
into his new house. The dummy didn't known it needed a pressure
regulator and he exploded 2 water heaters! They even had pressure relief
valves but the water pressure was just too great and the relief valves
couldn't relieve the water fast enough.

Sounds like BS to me. We have 105 psi coming into our building at work and
never cause any damage to a water heater. We have 6 of them. FWIW, I
don't have a pressure regulator at my house either.

Why is it that this is the first time I have heard that a pressure regulator
is required for a public water supply?

Seems to me if pressure was indeed that high that it would have popped a
line upstream, rather than a pristine new one.

Reminds me of a guy that used to do too much acid.

Steve