Hot water heater questions

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Racer X wrote:
My hot water heater is in my ground floor garage. Probably a 10 minute job to disconnect it, and I can roll it right out to the driveway. Why houses were built to hide stuff like furnaces, water shut offs and water heaters, instead of making access easy, is completely beyond me.

I have one water heater in the basement, easy in, easy out. I have one water heater in an upstairs closet, not so easy in or out, but a heck of a lot better than in the attic, where one of our two heating units is. The other heating unit is in the basement, right next to the easy in/out water heater. See, I have the best/worst of both worlds.

I really hate changing the air filters in that heating unit in the attic in the summer. I just did it a few days ago, and it sucks. It is like an oven up there and the filter is in a difficult to get to spot. Lovely, just lovely.