• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Even if you drain them yearly and “descale” them, it’s never gonna be pretty in there.

    You can use a backflow preventer so it doesn’t go back into the city supply which lets you do what you please inside. Even irrigation systems need them, if a main break or a hydrant gets used to fight a fire. There’s the potential for there to be a drop in pressure and it pull stuff out of the ground (or hot water tank) back into the municipal supply.

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      8 hours ago

      Woah, that’s intense, at first I thought that was some kind of eldritch creature. The house I’m in just got a new hot water tank, I’ll ask what they’re doing about maintaining it.