Do you bleach / santize your hot water tank?
I've always just done the cold water system. And only every few years at that since I don't drink it. I had read someone bleached the hot water tank too. What do you recommend?
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- I always sanitize the entire system, after all the hot and cold water comes out of the same faucets.
- When I do the water system ... I do the ENTIRE Fresh water system.. including the hot.
- ^^^yep.
- We sanitize while still in WH bypass mode. We will rinse the system a couple of times before we do the final rinse using baking soda and draining the WH tank each time seemed over-kill. No problems yet.
- Always do the water heater as well.
- Always do and just did...
- Yes, we do it all.
- Never have in 15 years. Just drain the water heater at the end of each trip. Never had a problem.
- Nope. Drain it every time. But we don't drink the water we just use it for showers, dishes etc. We carry bottled water for drinking and cooking. Bleach is more caustic than just draining it. And if you fill it with city water, it's already got chlorine/chloramine in it anyway. So what's the point?
- Not once in 30 years. The occasional treated city water does the job.
