Pretty much what I am looking for. The old water heater is starting to have issues and I need to figure out
what direction I will be going.

If this was a new house I would have picked the tank-less style. But old home, existing gas so I will go that route.

I could get by with a 30 gal, but going to stick I think with swapping the same size 50 gal tank out.

the basic reviews all say wonderful stuff and the other side of the coin they are going to bend you over, etc....

right now looking at a simple big box solution of Rheem performance Platinum 50 gal tank.

Due to the hard line water taps, going to have a plumber do the install and do a little clean up work to remove an old water softener that I don't use.

From what I can tell; the old water heater is over 15 years old and has had the heater element replaced once due to a water leak.


P.S. For a hoot, I looked at commercial rated hardware; ahhh...starting at over 2k for the hardware.