Hot Water Heater Bypass

You will bypass when winterizing so you do not need to fill the HW tank with the pink stuff.

Is the bypass just in case there is a problem with the heater or is there another reason

Artum Snowbird wrote:
The bottom is a two way valve, it either lets through straight or shuts off straight and sends it the other way like it should. The top valve is an on/off valve only. If you send water upward with the bottom valve, you want to make sure the top valve is shut off.

Once you have them set to go up on the bottom, and not go into the HWT on the top, you will send cold water to all your taps, both hot and cold. HWT will be bypassed.

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Artum Snowbird wrote:
The bottom is a two way valve, it either lets through straight or shuts off straight and sends it the other way like it should. The top valve is an on/off valve only. If you send water upward with the bottom valve, you want to make sure the top valve is shut off.

Once you have them set to go up on the bottom, and not go into the HWT on the top, you will send cold water to all your taps, both hot and cold. HWT will be bypassed.

Why, it appears that the hot water outlet a check valve on it the same as used on a single valve bypass. The only plus to this setup is you could replace the check valve or
hot water tank without shutting off water to the trailer.

I never thought of the cold valve being a two way valve I was thinking of and off and on. Thanks for the input.

newman fulltimer wrote:
both handles point up for bypass

What ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ he said! (Or, the top valve may POSSIBLY point down instead.)

both handles point up for bypass

The bottom is a two way valve, it either lets through straight or shuts off straight and sends it the other way like it should. The top valve is an on/off valve only. If you send water upward with the bottom valve, you want to make sure the top valve is shut off.

Once you have them set to go up on the bottom, and not go into the HWT on the top, you will send cold water to all your taps, both hot and cold. HWT will be bypassed.

Mine is like that. There is a check valve in the hot line coming out of the tank. Stops backflow into tank.

With the valves set to bypass cold water will still circulate to everything except the water heater tank.