On 2016-01-26 8:09 PM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:28:06 -0500, Nil
wrote:

I'm having a new natural gas water heater installed. My old one was
sitting right on the concrete floor of the basement. There is no floor
drain in the basement.

The old one sprang a leak, hence the new one. Fortunately I was home at
the time and not too much water leaked out before I discovered it. I
have an idea that an aluminum pan would be a good idea because the
bottom of the tank would be less likely to rust or corrode if not in
direct contact with the concrete floor. Does that idea have any merit?
If a leak occurred, the pan would fill up pretty quickly, but it would
buy me a little time to drain it out the back door with a hose.

Two questions:

- would you bother with the pan?

- if so, for a 21.5" diameter tank, how big a pan? They come in 22",
24" and 26" diameter sizes.

If the basement is unfinished why bother with a pan?
Then you have to always check the damn pan instead of just noticing
water on the floor.
IME water heaters spring a small leak when they go bad.

Not always, sometimes they are a major flood, mine went out big time,
fortunately in a basement with a drain.


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