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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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Bessie-Hunter
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Feb 07, 2018
Lynnmor wrote:
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.


I guess if I would have read "electric HW" instead of just reading difference between residential and mobile home, my answer would have been different.

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