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Anybody want some snow?
And yes, that green thing in the middle that's poking through is my paper box. Four inches more and you wouldn't see it.
Glad everyone's safe. When you start talking gas lines and pilots combined with flooding, the pilots go out and bubble up through the water... that's just bad news waiting to happen. Bunch of houses blew up in Mass. just recently on gas explosions.
MarkJFine wrote:Glad everyone's safe. When you start talking gas lines and pilots combined with flooding, the pilots go out and bubble up through the water... that's just bad news waiting to happen. Bunch of houses blew up in Mass. just recently on gas explosions.
Yep. I could hear the water spitting out when the burner first attempted to come on. Even when everything was finally good and it lit and stayed lit, I heard a little more water coming out about five or six minutes after the burner had been on.
I REALLY hate the design of this new water heater. Well, semi-new. My stepfather is a little gullible when it comes to this sort of thing, and the contracter sold him a used water heater that had come out of some place. Don't get me wrong, it's fairly new, and it looks like it. The manufacture date is also fairly recent. He sold it to him for less money, but in the end, it's not really the right water heater for them. It will work, but it's not what I, nor any other contractor, would have chosen for them. It's too tall, and they had to create an opening higher in the flue base by chiseling it out in order so that the flue wouldn't be going downhill. It was when they installed it, and I called and complained, so the owner came out the next day and fixed it by creating the higher opening. It's just the wrong water heater and it started with a bad install.
What they now have is a Reliance 6 40 GORT 300. It has this burner control for the gas valve, which it sits on top of. A big pain in the rump.
lol "scalding risk increases with hotter water"
it's also wet... who knew?
I got a kick out of that, too. Like the "don't eat this" warnings on things that no one would ever eat. :p
That control just feels cheap, and because of the way the water heater is designed there is no way to light it manually. It can ONLY be lit by that piezo lighter on the control. :(
I can see the control going bad long before the water heater itself does. :(
I'm used to the old, small water heater gas valve with the big black dial on it that has the temps. You reach in with a long match or one of those flexible, extended grill lighters to light the pilot while holding the button down, then put the access panel cover back on the inside, then the outside. Easy and long lasting. Heck, my water heater is approaching 18 years and it's still going strong. And it sits on a concrete slab on a dirt floor basement, so it's not exactly a dry environment. But, it's still fine. My furnace is about the same age, and other than replacing the hot surface ignitor a few times, it's still going strong, as well. They forgot to move the draft prover switch when they installed it in a horizontal position, so it was below the exhaust blower housing and would get water in it. It took a bit to figure that one out, as I'm not used to gas furnaces, but I knew what draft prover switches were and how they worked, and I could tell it was full of water from the condensation building up in the exhaust blower housing and running down the rubber tube to it. Just shook it out, let it sit for a few hours, and put it in the right position.
