> ...the magnesium sacrificial anode cannot be removed...
Get a Rheem Marathon hot water heater and permanently do away with sacrificial anodes.
So much about construction drives me nuts. After sweating bullets over microscopic details of software design to find the balance between durability, longevity, readability, reliability, maintainability, security, etc., it comes as a huge shock to see the lack of attention to detail in most "professional" construction.
On the other hand, most people aren't as bothered as I am about spending so much of a lifetime paying for a good that deteriorates to pretty much nil at the the end of that lifetime.
What annoys me the most is regulatory capture by design / moat building as top priority. Incompetent individuals (from an engineering perspective) creating legal moats, such as mandatory inspections that have nothing to do with property value, but provide income from fines for the city / locality.
Construction and materials "solutions" that are by design planned to fail by the end-of-life / warranty, etc.
Get a Rheem Marathon hot water heater and permanently do away with sacrificial anodes.
So much about construction drives me nuts. After sweating bullets over microscopic details of software design to find the balance between durability, longevity, readability, reliability, maintainability, security, etc., it comes as a huge shock to see the lack of attention to detail in most "professional" construction.
On the other hand, most people aren't as bothered as I am about spending so much of a lifetime paying for a good that deteriorates to pretty much nil at the the end of that lifetime.