Getting antifreeze into the hot water side
Here's what I've got: That valve at the bottom shuts off the cold water feed to the HW tank. I had assumed since it had another line hooked up to it, that it would pressurize the hot water si...
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I was trying to run the pink stuff through the HW plumbing, but not the tank.
I got under there to take a closer look and it turns out that the big "T" in the picture was hiding ANOTHER valve!
I don't think the previous owner saw that, either, because there was only antifreeze in the cold water side of the system. The HW lines to the shower had frozen and split. I had to repair them when I first fired it up this past Spring.
So when you flip BOTH valves, it allows the cold water feed (the feed from the water pump) to pressurize the HW side too. Now I have pink stuff everywhere. And through the outside shower (thanks - I forgot about that).
I got under there to take a closer look and it turns out that the big "T" in the picture was hiding ANOTHER valve!
I don't think the previous owner saw that, either, because there was only antifreeze in the cold water side of the system. The HW lines to the shower had frozen and split. I had to repair them when I first fired it up this past Spring.
So when you flip BOTH valves, it allows the cold water feed (the feed from the water pump) to pressurize the HW side too. Now I have pink stuff everywhere. And through the outside shower (thanks - I forgot about that).
