Is there anything else I can try to get the thing to heat 40 gallons of water?
What gives? I’d rather not replace it since It would be very dificult to remove from the basement. Second shower is fine and 5 days a week, I take the second shower, but it’s the two days that bother me. I’m still getting the same results from the first shower every morning. So I closed it up, replaced the relief vavle, and re-lit it. I stuck a fish tape into the hold and trid scraping it around the bottom, and it didn’t feel like there was any thing down there sitting on the bottom of the tank. I looked into the unit throught the side tap for the relif valve, and the dip tube looked brand new, so I’m ruling that out. So I continued this till I got nothing but clear water. this time I got a slightly cloudy result. So I closed the drain, and ran about 5 more gallons of clean water into the heater. I drained 40 gallons of crystal clear water from the thing. So on Friday, I turned off the water, closed all the valves on the manablock, opened the drain, and removed the releif valve.
#Age of water hear bardford white full
I figured that since the house had a mixture of old galvanized and copper pipes before I ran the new pex, that the whole bottom of the heater was full of sediment. If my wife showers before me, and i wait an hour or so, I can get all the hot water I need and then some. When I am the first to use the shower in the morning, I can only get about 10-15 minutes of hot water out of it. I don’t know if that shows its age or not. I’m not exactly sure of it’s age, but the yellow energy tag says that it’s calculations are based off of a 1992 figure. It looked near brand new, so I had no plans of replacing it. I have a Bradford white water heater that was in my hosue when I bought it.
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