water heater drain mod
Visited my son this past weekend and he was watching me fight with the water heater drain plug. He is a mechanical engineer and always tinkering with something... so he said "DON'T have to do that ...
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BarneyS wrote:
Why would you need to drain the water heater three or four times a year? We traveled for years and only drained ours once per year and flushed out all the sediment at that time with a wand through the drain hole. We never drained it in between stops or campgrounds.
Our present trailer is 16 years old and has the original 10 gal Atwood gas/elec water heater which still works great. I see no need to drain several time a year unless you camp in areas that have horrible water in which case I would probably not be stopping there.:W
Barney
I live in Tennessee. I plan to do a lot of spring and fall trips, and a couple of trips to the south during winter, and then back home. (I hate travelling in hot weather, unless it's to somewhere much cooler.) Lots of temperature swings happening. Dependably keeping RV temps in a freeze-free zone would require lots of propane or electric heat.
