[stealthn]

Timely...

I have been finishing the basement since Christmas, I was working on the bathroom and went to turn on the in floor heating breaker and opened the door to find water everywhere. The hot water tank was leaking from the top. I killed the water, the gas and drained the tank. I called a company and they were here within a hour, took the old one (12 years) and put in a new one in a couple of hours. I got my wife to run to a hardware store and grab a tank tray to put it under the tank. It has a hard tube that goes to the drain in case of a leak. I will add a leak sensor and tie into our home automation system.

This was the third water issue we had so we're done with them; toilet overflowed upstairs and leaked into a heater vent, the water line to the fridge burst and leaked on your kitchen hardwood, then the tank.

If it's over 10 years old you should replace your tank for safety sake...