Hot Water Heater Leaking??.? I have a gas hot water space heater in my basement and...
I have a gas hot water space heater in my basement and it is leak. I turned off my hot water hoping that I could drain the marine out of the tank myself. But it seems as if the cistern is never going to drain. A plumber won't be able to come until tomorrow or Monday and it is flooding my basement. So I hoped that draining it would discontinue the leaking until someone could come out and see it. Am I doing the right thing by trying to drain it? Or should I try something else?
There is a nouns valve either on the side or top of the radiator, it has a tab coming out of the center. Pull the tab up and it will allow air into the cistern and the water will then drain faster. Yes you are doing correctly. There is a spigot on the cold line coming into the tank. This spigot must be closed to stop water from entering the tank. Just turning the gas tap off will do nothing. TURN THE GAS OFF FIRST
If you hold a valve on the hot and cold shut them both off.
If individual 1 valve on the cold side (which is normal) turn the cold valve past its sell-by date and then go around the House to respectively SINK and shut the HOT water angle stop off underneath respectively sink to prevent cross flow of the cold water when someone uses the faucet.
Doing that will stop the water electric fire from refilling itself
There should be a drain on the wet heater itself, with a mannish hose thread - you can connect a hose to it to drain the water heater. Turn stale the cold water to the tank (on the right side as you frontage the tank from the temperature control side). Also, turn the gas past its sell-by date. If you can't figure out how to turn the gas off, turn the warmth all the way down - no point surrounded by the water heater firing while this is going on. There should be 2 dampen lines going to your tank, a cold water column entering the tank, and a hot water smudge leaving it. Each line should hold a valve on it. Shut off both lines. Turn rotten the gas to the heater. At the bottom of the tank should be a drain stopcock. You can hook a hose up to the tank and drain it from there.
Answers: trademark sure your gas valve is also turned off you dont want an explosion
you have to shut the cold dampen going into the hot water tank past its sell-by date, even if in means shuting the river of to the whole house. the tank is feed with cold water. on or stale it will still fill up and leak.