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Here are answers to frequently-asked questions about figuring out the age of your water heating appliance.
This article series explains how to determine the age of a water heater, we provide a chart that decodes the year of manufacture of water heaters, and we discuss the conditions, maintenance, and factors that affect how long a water heater can be expected to last.
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Questions about how to find the age of a water heater, geyser, calorifier, cylinder or other water heating appliance, posted originally at WATER HEATER AGE & MANUALS - topic home, where we give decoding guides for just about every brand of water heater, geyser, calorifier, or cylinder.
Anon
To figure out the age of your water heater, let's start with the water heater BRAND - like Rheem or GE or whatever. THEN you can look up the water heater serial number decoder for that brand in the article above.
On 2019-08-27 by Anonymous
How old is hot water heater serial number K99239108
On 2019-08-27 by (mod) - how old is my water heater - by serial number decoding?
Anon
To figure out the age of your water heater, let's start with the water heater BRAND - like Rheem or GE or whatever.
THEN you can look up the water heater serial number decoder for that brand in WATER HEATER AGE & MANUALS
On 2019-08-27 by Anonymous
How old is hot water heater serial number K99239108
On 2019-05-29 by Anonymous
HOW OLD IS WATER HEATER MODEL# 40 FFHMEV
On 2017-02-04 by Barbie
Looking for age of HHG30XMIGO Serial # 65319 MM Hedges Mgf. Co. Inc. 30 Gal. gas water heater.
On 2017-01-13 by (mod) - where to find age of a furnace
LG
This article series decodes the age of water heaters for domestic hot water: geysers, cylinders, calorifiers, or "water heaters" while you are asking about the age of a forced air heating system for heating the interior space of a building.
Using the search box just above to look for "FURNACE AGE" finds
AGE of HEATERS, BOILERS, FURNACES that's a good place to start decoding the serial number of your furnace to find its age.
On 2017-01-13 by LG
How do I determine the age of my Rudd gas forced air furnace?
On 2016-09-16 by jeff
This heater started leaking a few days ago. Was it made in 1980..?
On 2016-09-11 by Anonymous
How old is my hot water heater, It's model No. Is MIRE50S5DS12
On 2016-03-26 by (mod)
Don:
at WATER HEATER AGE & MANUALS you've found an article on water heater age. Search InspectApedia.com for AIR CONDITIONER AGE for help on A/C units. There you'll read about de-coding dates in the serial number depending on the A/C brand.
On 2016-03-26 by Don
trying to verify age of the AC unit
(Oct 11, 2011) sharon said:
need to know about tank warranty
Sharon see
The warranty period and terms of your specific water tank depend on its model, age, and of course proper installation. Typically you can find that information in the installation manual and papers for your unit, or if you don't have that information, you'd contact your heater's manufacturer and give them the model and serial number of your water heater.
(Feb 11, 2013) B Skiba said:
We are worried about our hydronic water heater. Our neighbors had severe water damage when their water heater had a major leak while cold water kept flowing into the heater. Their system is similar to ours.
We are going on vacation and wonder if we can turn off the cold water intake so that if the water tank develops a leak, at least we won't have a flood. Can we do this safely?
On 2014-12-30 by (mod) -
Lenny, no brand, no real idea, but possibly Nov 1986
On 2014-12-29 by lenny bobere lrbober@att.net
serial number B86329322 what is the age
On 2014-12-04 by What is age of Serial Water Heater?
M-11-RE50510DS is the serial number. GA8422578 is the model number.
Thanks.
For e-mail response use:
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On 2014-11-04 by (mod) -
Yes by brand and model the serial number encodes the year or date of manufacture. Links to the decoding charts are given in WATER HEATER AGE & MANUALS.
On 2014-11-03 0 by Anonymous
can the serial number determine my water heater age? Is there a chart for that?
On 2014-10-18 1 by Anonymous
hot water tank number OG 1893.5C no brand name and i am looking to find out how old thistank is plese
On 2014-10-16 by Anonymous
rheem gas hot water tank seral number RN 0797A02408
On 2014-09-30 by Anonymous
age of mark ten furnace?
On 2014-07-30 by (mod) -
Anin you will have better lock if you also can note the heater brand name and model. But I suspect the year may be coded as 1985
On 2014-07-29 by Anonymous
My email is deangrijalva@yahoo.com
On 2014-07-29 by Sylvia
I need to find out how old my water heater is here are the numbers I found on it Q1F304073MV/02121003085 Can you help me
On 2014-07-23 by (mod) -
Jade it would be helpful to know the electric water heater brand
On 2014-07-23 by Jade
Need to know the year of a Electric HWT
Model 5ET175PS
S/N R0111 592350
On 2014-07-02 by (mod) -
(1 hours ago) Stacey Beck said:
We just moved into our home about three years ago and the hot water tank is giving us problems.
I would love to know how old the tank is. If it's really old that's understandable that it would give us problems, but it looks kind of newer. Hopefully we can just get it fixed and wont need to buy a whole new one.
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On 2012-10-08 by Robert Gift
Why do they not simply state the date of manufacture?
Thank you.
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