Wishbone51 wrote:
I don't know if I'm doing anything majorly wrong, but I use no attachment when flushing out the water heater. I hold the hose to the opening, let it run for 20 seconds, let go and it whooshes out. I can stick my finger in and feel all the sediment on the bottom. Once I can feel no sediment, I'm done. Am I missing anything by not using the flushing attachment?
The ability to stick 'wand' inside WH tank, direct wand upward and rinse/flush top of tank and down the walls.
I like having that ability.
As for the sediment in bottom of tank.
I use a different method cause it's hard to really flush thru drain hole when something is sticking in thru drain hole.
After using wand to rinse/flush WH tank I remove it then go turn on water supply to RV (either via city water or pump). This gives me FULL water pressure with a WIDE OPEN drain hole. Talk about 'flush'.
Water and crud shoot out. Couple full blasts like that and the junk in bottom of WH tank is blown out. Then final rinse with wand and let it drain/dry.
The above method works very well with the Atwood WH due to drain hole only being 1/2" vs Suburbans being 3/4" (so should really blow out Suburbans)
