Last weekend Sam and I got to replace the 50gal water heater that was slowly dieing in our attic. The pilot light wouldn't stay lit and there was always 1/2" of water in the drip pan. So rather than have 50gal of water come through our ceiling. We went ahead and get a new one with a 11year warranty. <--the catch is you have to take the entire water heater back to Lowes, which means taking it out of the attic.

The hardest part was getting the thing up the narrow stairs with me trying to lift from the top and Sam from the bottom... there aren't handles on water heaters and I am not very strong, so Sam did a lot of dead lifting over his head.

Now we have to figure out how to get the old heater out of our attic... it might just stay for a while... :/