On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:13:13 -0500, Red Green
wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in
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wrote:
My water heater is leaking around the base, and I can see that it's
rusted around the edge. It's 15 years old.

I'm looking around at prices, but does anyone know about how much I
can expect the plumber/installation to cost?

It's a 50 gallon natural gas heater.

And my house is for sale, so now I have a puddle on the basement
floor if we have a showing before it gets replaced.

On the other hand, I get to add "New water heater" to the listing.


Somewhere between $150 and $400 for labor.

Any reason you can't do the job? Here are the steps:

1. Turn off water.
2. Drain and remove old water heater.
3. Position new water heater.
4. Reconnect three (maybe four) pipes.
5. Turn water back on.
6. Dispose of old water heater by leaving on the curb for the urban
fairies.

The above is, at most, a two hour, twenty curse-word job.



220 is whimpy. 440 -- 4 hour fourty curse-word job is really something to
brag about :-)


440 version:

1. Turn off water.

****! Damn valve is frozen or doesn't shut off completely

2. Drain and remove old water heater.

It won't completely drain dammit! There's so much crud in the bottom of
the tank it clogged the drain.

Won't drain because you forgot to open a hot water faucet on the
highest floor!