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According to the tag on mine it was installed in 1996. It finally blew last month, but given that I was paying attention it did give me plenty of warning by way of visible rust bubbles starting to form around the seams.

A lifespan of around three decades is exceptional for a storage tank water heater, so I really can't complain. The thing came with the house. I replaced it with a zooty hybrid heat pump model which by my admittedly rather fuzzy math will pay for itself in roughly... five years. (Before anyone asks, the Technology Connections video didn't have anything to do with it. That was always my plan for whenever the old one's number finally came up.)

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