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If A.O. Smith makes Reliance water heaters and makes Whirlpool water heaters that are rebranded as A.O. Smith, then who makes genuine A.O. Smith water heaters? Are these genuine A.O. Smith water heaters good? They seem to cost a lot of money. And are the Reliance water heaters good?

The first 4 digits of the water heater's serial number are 1178. That means that the water heater was built in November 1978. I just spoke to an HVAC-repair company and a plumbing company. Both companies told me that, because the water heater is 40 years old, flushing the water heater will make...

If I flush the tank, will that get rid of the sediment and the rumbling sound? The rumbling sound can be loud, and that sound sometimes wakes my mother up at night. Also, if the water heater starts leaking, will the leaking be gradual at first? Or will the entire contents of the water heater...

Reliance water heaters seem to get mostly great reviews. Are these water heaters actually great? Also, there is a company in the Chicago area called Skokie Valley Air Control (http://www.skokievalleyairctrl.com/). This company does HVAC repair. This company claims to have genuine A.O. Smith...

On the subject of maintenance, ABT Electronics in Chicago sells the following "self-cleaning" water heater from the brand Reliance: https://www.abt.com/product/92543/Reliance-40-Gallon-Self-Cleaning-Natural-Gas-Water-Heater-1240NACT.html If a water heater is labeled as "self-cleaning", does...

Bradford White water heaters have received a lot of bad reviews. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/bradford_white.html

And the A.O. Smith water heaters sold in plumbing-supply stores are genuine A.O. Smith water heaters?

How is it legal to rebrand a Whirlpool as an A.O. Smith? Also, how do you know that Lowe's A.O. Smith heaters are rebranded Whirlpool heaters? Is there some kind of news report out there, talking about this?

Here are the Rheem reviews I am talking about. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/rheem-water-heaters.html

What do you mean by "plumbing supply house"? Is this some kind of store? Can you give me an example of such a store in the Chicago metropolitan area? Also, is Whirlpool a bad brand?

I was reading reviews of the CURRENT Rheem models.

Hello. I live in a single-family home in Chicago. I have lived in this home for 35 years. Our home's water heater was here when my family bought this home. So, this water heater is at least 35 years old. Our water heater is a RheemGlas Fury, model # 22-40-2. The water heater has 40 gallons...

What is shoreing?

If I remember correctly, the plumber said that the pipe is 6 feet, 8 inches deep, at the point where the clean-out would be installed. I just rounded up to 7 feet.

I live in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Previously, some other plumbers were supposed to install a new sewer pipe into our home (because those same plumbers had determined that our existing sewer pipe had several separations). Those other plumbers abandoned the project. We wanted this new...

Recently, we hired a plumber to camera our sewer pipe from our crawl space. The plumber discovered the following: Between one of our bushes and the municipality's sewer, our sewer pipe slopes downward and then slopes upward. Our sewer pipe should not be sloping upward at all. The pipe...

I just wanted to provide an update on my situation. We hired another plumber to camera our sewer pipe from our crawl space. The plumber did so, and here is what he discovered: 1) Our sewer pipe is NOT broken. There are no separations. 2) Between one of our bushes and the...

I just got an email from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), the state agency that licenses plumbers in Illinois. The IDPH is telling me that neither the plumbing company, nor the plumber himself, is licensed in Illinois. The IDPH says that the company and the plumber may be...

I just got an email from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). The IDPH is telling me that neither the plumbing company, nor the plumber himself, is licensed in Illinois. The IDPH says that the company and the plumber may be licensed in the City of Chicago, but I live in a suburb, not...

Yes, there is a permit.