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Originally Posted by Lomac
Landlord doesn't live in town, nor anywhere near. Just easier for me to pay for it and then subtract the total from the rent. As for the tank, there's nothing outwardly wrong with it, but literally three minutes into a shower the hot water disappears.
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Probably the result of a broken dip tube.
On the inlet of the tank, there's a tube that goes down inside to almost the bottom, so when cold water comes in, it goes straight to the bottom of the tank and pushes the hot water from the top of the tank out to you. Sometimes those come loose or break off at the top, so what you end up with is cold water dumping straight into the top of the tank and diluting your hot water. Happened on the tank at our old townhouse, I just put in a new PEX tube. Was still working great when we moved out a little over a year ago.