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If there's water on the floor around the tank or the relief valve is discharging, shut the fuel or the breaker off and call before the tank is asked to hold pressure it can no longer hold.

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What a pro does

Very few Georgia homes have a basement, so the water heater usually lives in a garage, a hall closet, or an attic platform over a slab. Where it sits shapes the whole call. The plumber starts by separating a fuel problem from a tank problem: a gas unit gets the pilot, the thermocouple, and the vent looked at, and an electric one gets the elements and the thermostats tested rather than guessed at. A tank that heats but runs out early usually has a stack of sediment on the bottom taking up the space hot water used to occupy, and on a rural well without treatment that layer builds faster than it does on a treated municipal supply. The anode rod tells you how much life the tank's got left. So does the shell, honestly, and a plumber who finds rust weeping at a seam will say the tank is finished instead of selling a part for it. An attic install gets extra attention on the drain pan and its line, because a failure up there lands on the ceiling below.

Frequently asked questions

Sediment is the common cause. Minerals settle out of the water as it heats and pile on the bottom of the tank, which both insulates the burner from the water and takes up volume that used to hold hot water. On a well without any treatment ahead of it, that layer can build in a few years.
It often does, depending on what's in it. Iron and hardness both accelerate scale on the elements and sacrifice the anode rod faster, which is the part quietly protecting the steel. Homes around Fitzgerald or Hazlehurst on their own well tend to get more out of a heater when there's treatment ahead of it.
The failure is worse, not more likely. A tank in the attic drains through the ceiling when it goes, so the pan and the pan's drain line matter a great deal more than they do on a garage floor. A plumber checks that the pan line actually terminates somewhere useful and isn't blocked.
Not necessarily. Rumbling and popping are usually steam escaping from under a sediment layer rather than the tank itself failing. Rust in the hot water, water pooling under the unit, or weeping at a seam are the signs that point at the tank rather than at what's inside it.

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