How to Flush a Water Heater ● Simple Steps

[@chrisnotap]

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[@ShlisaShell]

Man, I remember my step-father doing that every year until he finally bought a water softening system. He had way more junk. I was actually quite amazed by how little you had. It might be your location. Good water naturally or your town takes real good care of themselves. Great video. We all need reminding and guidance. Thanks Chris.

[@MichaelPaul-TheVisitor]

this was very helpful. Thank you! PS - I really like the "get to it", step by step...and showing with the "pop bottle model" what is going on and why. Excellent video.

[@CJWarlock]

Home works FTW. It's very good to be fully able to do such stuff. Saves a lot of trouble when something goes bad and it's saturday evening or the malfunction requires a fast reaction. I like your videos, Chris Notap, I've suscribed as soon as I found your channel (a few months ago). Keep on the good work and have fun with it. :) Cheers!

[@GodseyKnives]

me too

[@badger0888]

I just love your videos. Informative and such clear step-by-step instructions. Subbed. You must have been a teacher. Keep up the great work eh!

[@chrisnotap]

Thanks for that!

[@etmccaus]

Thanks for your video. We recently had a new heater (made by a fairly reputable water heater company) put in, and were surprised to see almost immediately after we started getting black sediment from our taps when running hot water. We do have hard water, but it's softened and filtered before it's fed to the heater. Used your video as a guide to drain and flush the "new" tank. Was absolutely surprised, somewhat disgusted, and somewhat ecstatic to see how much of that same sediment came out. 10 minutes of flushing, water went from black/grey to normal. TL, DR: might be good to do this on new installs, too...will certainly be doing this every 4-6 months, for sure.

[@gee3883]

Best tutorial I found thanks.

[@robertgray6512]

Chris - you are so handy!

[@chrisnotap]

Thanks.

[@Hellocali1]

Great video thanks

[@juniorgemini8076]

nice and simple

[@mickjager5974]

Have you checked the anode rod?

[@bcpfarmandtrucking6560]

Awesome tips

[@declineofthewest.]

Excellent

[@LogicBob]

Cool alarm! Hey, please let us know it starts leaking anytime soon. I have always been told that the sediment helps dissipate the heat from the burner and if you flush it out an older water heater will often fail soon after.

[@chrisnotap]

A good experiment. I will keep you informed of what happens.

[@crunchtime4l]

@@chrisnotap any update? Mine is 19 years old too and im worried to flush it too much.

[@ngoti8tor]

Don't pour the water from the bucket down the drain like he did in this video. All that sediment will only help clog up your drain in the future. You want to keep any dirt or sediment out of your drain, so pour the bucket outside someplace.

[@bangzoom8180]

Chris, I have a grundfos recirculation pump just outside my water heater. Do I need to uplug and shut off valve before I drain water heater? Thx

[@trevorritchie2575]

What happened to the smoke detector water leak detector that was supposed to be in the description?

[@chrisnotap]

It's actually at the end of the video on the screen. Here is the link to it here....kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4Wsl3ludsuYfpo. I've also added it to the description under the video too. Thanks for the heads up!

[@sammywheeashton4505]

wow.... i needed to know how 2 do this... thank u

[@nickt.2825]

Does the rust mean you need to replace the anode rod? Or had you done that already?. Nice video.

[@chrisnotap]

I had never checked the anode rod but I will be soon.

[@vancitydude]

Great video Chris. Have you ever changed the sacrificial rod in there? Apparently by doing that every couple of years the tank will last forever.

[@chrisnotap]

I never changed it. I was going to check it and see how it looks

[@onjofilms]

What is a sacrificial rod? The bottom heater?

[@chrisnotap]

It's great that you asked this question. The tank is steel and water will attack it and make it rust. If you put a less noble metal in the tank also, it will attack it first and not so much the metal of the tank, hence the term "sacrificial rod" because it sacrifices itself for the sake of the steel tank. Pretty cool that someone figured this out. Every few years if you checked this "sacrificial rod" usually made of aluminum, you'd be able to gauge how much the rod has corroded and then determine how often to replace it. It's supposed to make your water tank last longer but most people on the planet are not aware of it or that a water tank has one. Most people rent anyways and don't care.

[@ddd228]

Correct. I did mine after 12 years and it was mostly garbage. I used a magnesium LINKED rod.(better) $50 shipped from the Homeless Depot.

[@amerlin388]

Good to see someone asked about this. I was going to suggest Chris demonstrate checking this at the appropriate time in this process. Maybe next time he flushes the water heater he will redo this video.

[@amerlin388]

Just a reminder, tank flush is great time to check/replace the anode rod.

[@Montery12]

So you do not wait until the tank is full again to turn temperature knob back to warm? What you did was after you were done: you shut off WH spigot and turned cold water supply spigot back to on (as water supply in WH begun to fill up). Is that correct?

[@Montery12]

Hoping you'll answer this one: Why did you not turn on the pressure relief valve? Other videos say so.

[@Montery12]

Thank you, 505 Strat, for a valuable tip.

[@GodseyKnives]

man you ought to see ours in Indiana it takes me a while to get all the lime out . I use coat hangers and vaccums and vinegar to get what i can out its bad cant afford a softener

[@slimbudarski4117]

My owner's manual says to turn off the pilot, My tank says Vacation pilot and off position?

[@INTERNA9]

THANX

[@oldsteamguy]

awesome

[@mercurialmystic]

So, I have a question. Do all water heaters have a drain valve at the bottom? Because mine doesn’t. :/

[@chrisnotap]

They pretty well all have a drain in order to be able to move them if needed.

[@mercurialmystic]

Chris Notap Hmmm. I guess I’ll keep looking. Perhaps it’s hidden.

[@kwvtxiajlubneejtwmzeej9012]

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[@j.frankparnell6195]

Change out that cheap plastic valve that comes with the water heater for a real brass valve. If regularly flush the water heater you will avoid a leaky valve when the plastic one wears out. Also change the anode every 3-4 years. It will make it last much longer.

[@bluelude2001]

I did my water heater which was a year old and the only stuff that came out of it looked like small pieces of clear jelly. I didnt eat it.

[@chrisnotap]

Lol!! Good.

[@MrOldclunker]

I wish my basement was that clean.

[@chrisnotap]

I found that once I painted the floor, it made it easy to keep clean.

[@MrOldclunker]

LOL...19 years and that is all you got out? You must have the cleanest water in the country.

[@blackscarfolfgaming4056]

MrOldclunker or he cleans it more often.

[@chrisnotap]

That was the first time it had been flushed.

[@riverrat1149]

The one that came with my house was so full i could not drain it.

[@chrisnotap]

How old was it?

[@riverrat1149]

Probably early eighties.Electric and the drain was lower than yours Things are heavy full!

[@metaphormixmaster]

Feeling sedimental right about now.

[@sketchartphoto8117]

19 years. interesting. thats about the age of ours that we just got rid of last year.

[@Kuvlubnpechannel1576]

Thov pab o

[@anaru3511]

Maybe you should flush your squirl video it's abuse and I wonder why the comments are disabled on that video, han ?

[@nemmrrc]

Shall we send all the squirrels that have ruined our property over to your home ?

[@anaru3511]

@@nemmrrc sure 😆