How to leave hot water heater while gone
First-time snowbirder mulling over how to leave our home hot water while gone on a 3-month long trip south this winter. We have city water and it will be shut off at the street. Furnace will be...
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This won't answer your question, if anything it will make it more complicated.
Pilots are left on now because they tend to corrode otherwise. Our gas log fireplace does this every three to four years. I need to have the gas guy come out and clean it. He tells me to keep it lite all winter, I did that once and it cost me $200 in propane. He cleans it for $75 every 3 years. :h
Our hot water heater went for 20 years and was still working when I replaced it this summer. I believe the reason why is because it gets drained every year and all the crud in the bottom of the tank is flushed out.
So no help here, but if it was me, I would shut it off and drain it.
Pilots are left on now because they tend to corrode otherwise. Our gas log fireplace does this every three to four years. I need to have the gas guy come out and clean it. He tells me to keep it lite all winter, I did that once and it cost me $200 in propane. He cleans it for $75 every 3 years. :h
Our hot water heater went for 20 years and was still working when I replaced it this summer. I believe the reason why is because it gets drained every year and all the crud in the bottom of the tank is flushed out.
So no help here, but if it was me, I would shut it off and drain it.
