Reply #61: My water tank went out on me last Spring...

[Waiting For Everyman]

If you can, have a plumber or someone at least come over and put a shut off valve on the intake pipe, or you'll be mopping up water every day. I mopped up the floor for 3 months before I figured out to at least have that done. I don't know why shut off valves aren't required with all water heater installations. Meanwhile of course, no hot water for three months along with the flooding and mopping. Same reason, I couldn't get financed (due to medical bills). After all of that, at long last a family member finally advanced it to me.

I think such necessary things should be buyable through utility companies and subsidized if necessary. That used to be how it was done in the past, but of course anything that would help the non-wealthy has been done away with.