Great video. The inspection camera inside the tank and showing the heater element and anode are much appreciated!

I just went through this! I installed mine Dec of 2017. It started leaking March of 2023. Made quite a mess. Insides looked same as yours or worse. I bought a new one plus an anode rod! Will be checking it in a year. Thanks for a helpful video.

Very helpful and thorough - great video thank you 👍

I replaced my whole house tank with a plastic one made by Rheem 40 gallon I believe . They give a life time guarantee made of plastic no rust problem , about $400 CDN a more than a regular metal tank . Not sure if they make ones small like yours . I have a a couple of plumbers tell me they are good tanks .

FYI: The anode should be replaced before it totally fails to prevent tank corrosion. The telltale is a sulphuric smell on hot faucet.

I cleaned and replaced anode once a year. Went 10 years then tank leaked. Been a good unit but no maintenance will destroy it in a few years.

The over pressure valve is pointing at people , if it were to blow off someone could get burned . Should it be piped to somewhere safer . Just a thought . Great video .

Thanks for this video - it's very helpful since I have one that has been having issues with the same water heater. What do you think may be the issue if the pressure overflow valve is leaking water?

Thanks for the video - 2 questions: where is the electrical outlet that your water heater plugs into - was it there already? And, what's the average inlet water temp where you are? Also, the manuals I've looked at for various mini tank heaters describe the effect of thermal expansion on the pressure release valve (lime build up and eventual leakage) in "closed systems" (when a backflow preventer is on the house side of the water meter.) They recommend installing a bladder expansion tank - seems like a lot to add to this little system...

Where did you source the hoses for the tank. I have the same Bosch Unit and am trying to hook it up to feed my clothes washer. Thank you

You could just pipe the relief valve right under the toilet seat. It would make a very nice bidet.🚽🌡️🤦‍♀️

Is there a way to drain these easily? I'd like to install one in my RV, but need to drain at the end of the season.

if this is installed a long ways from the hot water heater, would it make more sense to connect the cold water line to the Bosch unit? The hot water will never reach the unit before it refills, so you just pull hot water from the main hot water heater and it never makes to it to the tank (and is therefore wasted).

I have this same water heater. And it’s not getting hot. Is there a way to reset it?

I've been getting blue powdery sediment clogging my faucet screen. I've only had the unit for six months or so.

You might want to consider using a powered titanium rod system.

Water heaters are the #1 most neglected appliance in American Homes. You covered it by saying flush water heater at least yearly. People who have well water or municipal water that comes from wells will have higher TDS (total dissolved solids), mineral content for sure. People who have water supplied from surface water (lakes,reservoirs or rain water) will have an non existent or low amount of dissolved minerals. When I was younger I worked for a company that did house line/Water line maintenance work) we would isolate from the supply source an run a recirculated vinegar solution to dissolve out and flush all calcium and iron mineral deposits on homes. This drastically increased the volume and flow on houses who never had it done. If they had a maintenance contract we would replace the anode rods (zinc,magnesium or aluminum) depending on the pH, mineral makeup of their water along with the type of plumbing piping and water quality they had from the source. The company sold filters,softeners and a everything in between. I just was on the maintenance crew side. Now for the last 2 decades I work for the water utility, I've gained an immense amount of knowledge over the last 30 years about water quality and plumbing infrastructure. In short you can have a 6 year warranty water heater last several decades by just simple maintenance. Almost no one reads or remembers the information in the water heater manual. It's a set it and forget it, until it leaks or they no longer have hot water world. Great video, I look forward to seeing a 6 month video on this if you are still producing videos. The simplest and cheapest thing you can do to prevent sediment is install a simple whole house filter on the incoming side of your house or at least before the water heater as it is nothing more than a sediment trap. Greave video Sir. Sorry I'm so long winded. I would love to make informative videos and share my knowledge like you did but my video editing is null.

You know you can pee sitting down right. You saying that you'd rather pee standing up and splash pee everywhere than just sit down comfortably and take a little break?

Hey one question, the pressure valve relieve should be in what position ? If I leave the relieve valve as you have in 12:07 the water starts flowing from there when I turn the water pump on, if I close the valve, it starts leaking from the front side! (behind the dash panel) through the heater piece gasket -_-