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  • Lohman446
    Useful posts: 7
    • Jun 2003
    • 9315
    #1

    When it rains

    So, I decided to add to what is appearing to be an already bad enough week.

    I took the opportunity to take a couple hours off work on Monday, go home and take a nap. I have been wanting a waterbed for sometime and found someone with exactly what I wanted for sale, went up and bought it, and he delivered it that night. Considering I have medical issues (bruised ribs, partially collapsed lung, bruised spleen, sprained ankle all from Saturday night) I did not see setting it up all the way by myself. I did what I could and my sister and brother in law came over to help me about 9:00 at night.

    Well.. its like a new toy, I want to sleep on this thing. So I fill it from the hot water heater valve. Its partially full when I know the water heater is empty and decide to move the house to a normal spigot. I take the hose off, and the hot water heater valve will not shut off all the way. No big deal, I turn off the main water supply to the house, take it apart and clean it out. I think its off and go to the basement to turn back on the water. As I am entering the utility room I hear water hitting the far wall, its coming out under PRESSURE. Its now about 10:30... I rush downstairs and turn it off, and begin wet-vacing the water out. Now I need a valve. Eventually I am going to do some simple task and its going to work...

    I went into town and raided the shop and ended up fixing it... theres days though where I wonder if its even worth leaving the house.
    "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not" - Dr Suess
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    • Muzikman
      Everything AGD
      • Dec 2000
      • 6229
      #2
      You should NEVER use the valve that is on a hot water tank. It is there for when you need to remove the tank (usually when it's dead). Those are for all purposes a single use valve. Very rarely will they actually close completely once opened.

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        • Lohman446
          Useful posts: 7
          • Jun 2003
          • 9315
          #3
          Originally posted by Muzikman
          You should NEVER use the valve that is on a hot water tank. It is there for when you need to remove the tank (usually when it's dead). Those are for all purposes a single use valve. Very rarely will they actually close completely once opened.
          I thought it was a very poor design - the one on there now, it opens and closes well, because the only one I could find at the shop was an industrial design for on high pressure air systems
          "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not" - Dr Suess

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            • Muzikman
              Everything AGD
              • Dec 2000
              • 6229
              #4
              oh, and you should not fill a water bed with hot water, just as you should never use hot water to make coffee. There are too many nasty things in that tank that can cause bacteria growth.

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                • Evil1
                  Registered User
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 979
                  #5
                  He was just thinking ahead of the game in a sense. He wanted to sleep on the waterbed and the heater takes 24 hours to get the water up to temp, so he figured to fill it with hot water. I would have done the same. And don't laugh, but last month when I moved into my new house, I had to fix the drain hose on my washer so it would drain correctly and when I shifted the washer so I could sit behind it to work on it, I knocked the whole valve assembly off of my water heater and watched as 40 gal of hot water poured out in my boiler room. I just put a whole new water heater in being that one was 8 years old.

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