How do Know if Your Water Heater is About to BURST?

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Hello. Steve here for FurnaceUSA. Have you ever wondered how do you know for sure that your hot water tank needs to get replaced?
There's the obvious way to know, which is there's water all over the floor. But the problem is you don't want to wait that long to figure it out if you need to replace your tank, 'cause at that point in time, it could be an insurance claim, it could be damaged floors, it could be a damaged house. It can run into a lot of money if a hot water tank damages a house.
It's better to know in advanced. If you really wanted to be proactive, just change the tank at 10 years, or sometimes less, in certain parts of the country, depending on your water conditions and stuff like that. If you wanted to be proactive, change it way in advance. But the problem with that is, sometimes your hot water tank can last, in certain areas, 20 years. If you want to be able to monitor it yourself and to see if it's started to show slow signs of leaking, there's certain ways that you can tell.
Tanks usually break in one of two ways. They either go, they flood your house, or they get little early indicators where they get little tiny pinholes throughout the tank, and those pinholes they start seeping out, just a little bit of moisture, start seeping out in and around.
On this tank, there's a little bit of rust around here. You'll see there's a little bit of rust around here. In this one, there's actually a little tiny bit of water in the pan, so this tank has to go. I'm gonna zoom in a second here, and we can see a close up.
First when you look at that, what you're looking at there is there's a little bit of moisture inside the tank. A little tiny pinhole, so it hasn't actually sprung a leak. When tanks spring a leak, you're obviously gonna see water all over the floor, which you don't see right here. However, when you see stuff like this, it's got a little tiny pinhole, and that pinhole started to percolate out.
Now if you look over here, it's gotten a lot worse than that. That same moisture, probably multiple little pinholes, the moisture is coming up, it's leaking throughout the tank, and it's coming up and coming out all those different areas. Those are some real obvious signs that you got a pinhole leak. When you start to see that, the problem is, it can mean that you're heading towards a blowout. That means you want to get rid of the tank.
A more obvious sign, looking down here, is the water in the pan. When you see stuff like that, that's a real good indication that you have a more significant leak. Another way that you can check is you can take the cover off, and just put your fingers down at the bottom of the tank. If you feel moisture down there, that means that the leak is internal. 'Cause sometimes, and not every time, when you see water in the bottom of the pan like this, doesn't mean that you have a leak. Sometimes it just means that you have water coming in there from the blow-off tube, or you have water coming in from the air conditioning system into the pan.
The other thing that you can look for is bulges inside of the tank. For this, you literally need to put your hand on the side of the tank and feel it. What it is, is a whole bunch of rust on the inside that you can actually feel, because this is actually not the tank. This is just a wrapper. This is just the outside of the tank.
If you look right here, this is just an outside shell. On the inside is where the actual tank is. That's where the rusting happens, inside there. But sometimes, that rust can start pushing [inaudible 00:04:02] and bulging this side of the tank out. When that happens, [inaudible 00:04:07], so you can literally feel the side of the tank. I don't feel any rusting or any screaming bulge in this tank. But there's definitely that little rusting up there.
Those are the best ways for you to tell if your hot water tank is starting to go, but other things that you may want to try is running the hot water tap into a big bowl. You can look through it and you can see if it's starting to go brown. Sometimes you can't always tell, in the shower or whatever else. But if you fill a bathtub up with hot water and you start to see a little bit of brown in it, you know that the tank is starting to go, especially if it's only coming on the hot side instead of the hot side and the cold side.
Again, Steve here from FurnaceUSA. To find us, we're at furnaceusa.com. We work throughout the country and we can help you out anywhere that you are.

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