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RJsfishin
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Feb 03, 2018

water heater difference Residential - Mobile Home

Anyone know the real difference between stick house water heaters, and mobile home water heaters ? I recently had to replace the 50 gal electric WH im my MFG (mobile) home. After seeing a much high...
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Lynnmor
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Feb 06, 2018
Bessie-Hunter wrote:
It has to do with the combustion chamber and the flue.


Since it is an electric water heater, the flue is on the power plant. :D

At one time, mobile homes had electric water heaters with the heating element external to the tank, talk about dangerous, but it had the wonderful sticker.

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