First time Winterizing. Couple questions
So I should have done this way sooner so I'm in a little bit of a pannick mode here as it's supposed to drop to -2 tonight and I'm a little worried. I have drained my fresh, black and grey water ta...
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I'm assuming this is not a new camper, especially since your water heater is rigged with that white hose (used under bathroom sinks). It looks like it's been jerry-rigged to make a very manual water heater by-pass.
Here is what I think is happening.
The circles on your water pump... yes correct! That line comes out of our fresh water tank and into the inlet side of the pump. Take it off and attach another hose and stick the hose into a gallon of pink stuff and turn on the pump. The pink stuff will pump out of the gallon jug. This part is OK.
Let's go to your water heater now. It looks like that gray valve is a water cut off that will cut off the water completely from going into the water heater. But, turn that valve only and nothing will pump any further.
That white hose? To me, it just doesn't make any sense, UNLESS that round knob (on the bottom of the water heater) is another valve. If it is a valve, then all you need to do is turn it. It will stop anything from going into the water heater, and will travel up the white hose. At the top of the white hose, there should be a check-valve that will prevent anything from back-filling into the water heater.
Water heater: cold comes in the bottom, hot comes out the top.
Now!!! If that round knob is NOT a valve you can turn, (and this is what I think ... you have to take off the white hose from the bottom, and take off the gray hose from the bottom and hook them both up together, which will then manually by-pass your water heater. The connection at the top of the tank should still have a check-valve to keep anything from back-filling into the tank. However this does not make a whole lot of sense either, because that would also allow cold water to go up that white hose, missing the water heater completely, mixing hot with cold giving you luke-warm. (Maybe that was the intent?)
So the real question is, what is that round thing on the bottom pipe joint? is that a valve, if so, simply turn it and your in by-pass mode. If it's not a valve, you've got a very strange set-up.
Here is what I think is happening.
The circles on your water pump... yes correct! That line comes out of our fresh water tank and into the inlet side of the pump. Take it off and attach another hose and stick the hose into a gallon of pink stuff and turn on the pump. The pink stuff will pump out of the gallon jug. This part is OK.
Let's go to your water heater now. It looks like that gray valve is a water cut off that will cut off the water completely from going into the water heater. But, turn that valve only and nothing will pump any further.
That white hose? To me, it just doesn't make any sense, UNLESS that round knob (on the bottom of the water heater) is another valve. If it is a valve, then all you need to do is turn it. It will stop anything from going into the water heater, and will travel up the white hose. At the top of the white hose, there should be a check-valve that will prevent anything from back-filling into the water heater.
Water heater: cold comes in the bottom, hot comes out the top.
Now!!! If that round knob is NOT a valve you can turn, (and this is what I think ... you have to take off the white hose from the bottom, and take off the gray hose from the bottom and hook them both up together, which will then manually by-pass your water heater. The connection at the top of the tank should still have a check-valve to keep anything from back-filling into the tank. However this does not make a whole lot of sense either, because that would also allow cold water to go up that white hose, missing the water heater completely, mixing hot with cold giving you luke-warm. (Maybe that was the intent?)
So the real question is, what is that round thing on the bottom pipe joint? is that a valve, if so, simply turn it and your in by-pass mode. If it's not a valve, you've got a very strange set-up.
