Thanks for all the info.
A little background, I bought a Whirlpool Flamelock 40 gallon Natural Gas water heater 2 years ago, last year, I replaced that one after it simply wouldnt light. Lowes installed it, and didnt like it that I was going to replace it and kept giving me the run around. Finally they replaced it, of course I had to AGAIN pay for labor, but it got done.
a month ago, my newest Flamelock decided to go out, and I would have to go back and get it to relight again, usually taking me at least 15 minutes to get it to light. This happened 3 or 4 times.(model #BFG1F4040S3NOV)
Last week the damn thing went out again, and will simply not relight. I went to
www.flamelocksupport.com (whoever put that info on here thank you!) and sent an email to them.
It wasnt 10 minutes
(this is wednesday about 12:45pm btw) and they called me on the phone, wanting my serial # on my FlameLock Waterheater.
I tell him what the waterheater is doing and like I expected, he said the "thermal" has gone out.
He offered to send me a replacement part, and I told him that I am not qualified to replace anything like that, and that I doubt whirlpool would like the lawsuit I put on them when I burned my house down, because of it.
he then went on to tell me he could recommend someone to do the labor (at a cost to me of course). He tell's me it's "sears". Give's me a reference number and the phone number 1-800-676-5589.
Now, as this is September 17th,2008; and
knowing that winter is closer than I want to admit that it is I am wondering to myself, if I am not just wasting my time with any kinds of repairs on this FlameLock POS Waterheater.
I really don't want to have to mess with a possible waterheater change
in the winter time,
but at the same time I really don't have the $ to buy another waterheater at this point in time.
I have no idea how much $ "sears" will charge me to change this "defective thermal" even though the part itself is costing me nothing. (the part will be here tomorrow and I did not pay anything for shipping)
this experience with Whirlpool as well as Lowes selling these junk waterheaters has made me avoid any and all Whirlpool products as well as avoiding Lowes all together.
I think im going to look around online and see where else has water heaters and do some pricing on them.
any suggestions or insights from all you great people would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.