Need a new AC unit and hot water heater....there goes vacation for the next two years.
Hot Water Heater..... I needed a new hot water heater about 7 years ago, so I went to Lowes and bought the 40 gal. Whrilpool gas for around $399. About a year later, my mother needed a hot water heater, so off to Lowes I went for another Whrilpool Gas water heater again for around $300. But this time as I was leaving the store, a customer stopped me and said, "Don't buy that one, and read about the lawsuit online." Well, when your out of hot water it starts to get desperate, so I bought it anyway. Besides, I already had one, so knew I liked it.
About a year later the polite light would not stay lit on mine. No problem, since a new thermal coupler isn't that hard to replace, so I took the old one out. Ought Oh...!!! Whrilpool thought it would be nice to use a right handed thermal coupler that only Whrilpool sells. So, now to overnight some parts.
I get the new thermal coupler, and it does not fix the problem. I call Whrilpool and they tell me that I need a new burner. Now I send for the parts and replace the burner which I really didn't want to do, since I had to work with the gas line, but I changed it. Again it didn't work.
Call Whrilpool, and they assured me that I had put it in wrong and I had to take it out and reinstall it.
Cutting the story short, "It never did fix the problem." I decided to check on line, and it seems that Whrilpool made a bunch of defective hot water heaters with defective gas valves. I went to Lowes, and low and behold, right next to the water heater I purchased was a big stack of gas valves. No other water heater had replacement gas valves except mine. Within the year, my mothers new water heater did the same thing, same problem, same solution from Whrilpool. Lowes knew they were defective, but that continued to sell them.
So I finally decided to just buy a different brand, but guess what, "THEY ARE ALL MADE IN MEXICO, and all shitt...!"
I got onto the internet and researched contractors that build apartment complexes and found out that there were only 2 hot water heaters made in the United States. One was the BRADFORD WHITE. I found one about 25 miles from me at a contract supply store. They only sell to contractors, but when I told them my story they said, "We know exactly what you mean, come on over and we'll fix ya up...!"
I don't know anything about the electric water heaters, but if you need a gas one, I suggest you spend a little more money and get one from the U.S.
