Hot Water Heaters

Transcript Have you gone down to into your basement and you’ve heard the water heater rumbling? Like, turned on, it sounds like there’s rocks in the bottom of the water heater? Like it’s really churning? When I get asked what that means, what it is that the sediment in the bottom of the tank, a …

Transcript All right. Gas water heater trouble shooting. If you have no hot water and you come home, first thing you want to look at is, “Is there a puddle of water beneath my water heater?” If yes, you’re going to want to shut it off. If no, you’re going to want to look down …

Transcript I get asked, “The little valve on the side of the water heater. It leaks or it drips.” And people say, “Can I replace it on my own?” The answer is actually no, you can’t, because number one: Why is it leaking? Number two: You have to be able to shut that thing off …

Transcript How to prevent a water heater explosion. It’s taught in every school that I’ve been into. We teach it here at the company. And a lot of times you’ll see any kind of water heater, every water heater is a vessel with fuel underneath it, whether it be gas or electric. This little valve …

Transcript If you have a tankless water heater that doesn’t heat, there’s going to be only a few things wrong with it. If it was working before it probably has plenty of gas. So you can scratch that off the list. Every once in a while you’re going to get sediment inside the tankless water …

Transcript Why does my water smell like rotten eggs? A lot of times when that happens, it’s usually from a well. And if it’s from a well, it can even be a public well in a city that you live in, it’s sulfur. And it’s a bacteria. And it can be remedied by softening your …

Transcript One of the things we always to talk about to our customers: They have a leaking water heater. It’s a panic, no one knows what’s happening, how to make it stop. First of all, the first thing you need to know is how to shut off your water heater. So, most water heaters have …

Transcript Gas water heater maintenance tips: If you have a gas water heater, you want to look at when it was installed. If your heater is in excess of seven years old, there are a few things you can do. But if it’s under seven years old, here’s what you can do. You want to …

Transcript Solar water heater is basically capturing water in a vessel and letting the sun heat it. It’s still going to need either electricity or gas to get it up to a temperature where it’s going to give you a shower or be able to deliver enough hot water to wash your dishes. The point …

Transcript One of my friends asked me the other day, they said “You know, when I turn my hot water on, I have this ritual. I plug in the iron, I go downstairs and turn the coffeemaker on, and by the time I get back upstairs, the water’s hot.” So what does that mean? That …

Transcript If you want to figure out how to get the correct size of electric water heater to suit your needs, what you need to do is make it bigger than what you actually want. I’ll give you an example. If you were going to have a 50 gallon electric water heater, you’d probably only …

Transcript Most of the tips that I get asked about hot water heaters is: How can I make it last longer? One thing we always recommend is putting a pre-filter on the cold water side so that no sediment goes to the bottom of the tank. Once you get sediment in the tank, you have …

Transcript If you ever see in your house: All of the sudden yesterday, the pressure coming out of the faucet, specifically the hot water was really strong. Then all of a sudden you wake up one morning, and it’s not working as well as it did. You notice it starts declining. What that can be …

Transcript Pros and cons of indirect water heaters. There are a couple if you have a heating system. A water heater itself, a stand-alone water heater burns at 62 percent efficiency. Heating systems have a higher efficiency upwards of 94 percent, and on the low side of 82 to 84 percent. So, automatically, just by …

Transcript Every water heater has what is called a standing pilot, a little tiny blue flame that’s visible if you’re kneeling down in front of the water heater. It’s visible, you can see the flame. If you don’t see the flame, it’s going to be out, and water heaters today come equipped with an empisal …

Transcript An indirect water heater is a tank that gets heated by a heating system. So, on this side it’s just like a zone inside your house like a thermostat. So, a heating system sits on the floor. An indirect tank gets heat from that heating system and makes hot water. So as you are …

Transcript If you had a gas tankless water heater. Now you have a fuel that’s going to heat the water quickly and give you plenty of hot water. Again it’s affected by the ground temperature, the water coming out of the ground. But it’s able to raise the water temperature very quickly because of the …

Transcript We have in front of us a water heater, and this water heater, isn’t working. It’s just for demonstration only, there’s no connections to it. So what I want to show you is how to clean a water heater. So, one of the first things you want to do to clean your water heater …

Transcript Basically, for an electric water heater you want to do the same thing as you do for gas. The most important part about the gas is turning off the fuel. In this case we adjusted the pilot. On an electric water heater, you’re going to want to shut off the electricity to the water …

Transcript The pros and cons of electric water heaters: pretty simple. Electric water heaters make water by electricity. They last a little bit longer than a gas water heater. In the northeast, they don’t lost as long as they would down south, like in Florida. The average lifespan of a water heater in the northeast …

Transcript How do I keep a tankless hot water heater clean, or how do I clean it? The first thing I want to show you is this water filter. Make sure that the water going into the tankless is clean. With a tankless water heater it makes water hot so fast that there is a …

Transcript So, I’ll tell you this water heater works. It’s essentially like a small heating system mounted on a wall. It has 200,000 BTU’s of heat that make water real hot, real fast. So, if you are going to shower, there’s going to be plenty of water. If everybody on your street wants to shower, …