Water heater bypass not working?
So I'm winterizing my trailer today and at first I don't know where the darn water heater bypass valve is. I finally locate it under an access panel which is under the mattress to the front queen bed. I proceed to turn the valve off so NO cold water should be hitting the water heater.
Now I go and turn the fresh water bypass valve on so it stops pumping from the fresh tank and now from my bottle of antifreeze.
Ok so I'm ready to pump antifreeze through the system - I place the hose into the bottle of antifreeze and turn the water pump on and WHOOSH the whole bottle is almost instantly sucked dry. I figured I would leave all of the faucets closed until the system had some pressure. Now I open the cold and hot water faucets rotating through the coach but I am only able to get a little (maybe half of the bottle of antifreeze) to come through the faucets. Where did the rest of this go? I proceed to use another bottle of antifreeze and again I notice that I am not getting as much out of the faucets as I should be.
So.. I go outside and take the plug out of the water heater tank and SPLASH - PINK******EVERYWHERE.
My question is going on if I have the bypass valve turned on that is supposedly cutting off all water to the hot water tank? Why am I getting the pink stuff in the hot water heater?
The only logical explanation that I can come up with is that the valve cutoff to the water heater tank is maybe not turned on all the way? I doubt this though because I really yanked on that sucker. Maybe I should double check this?
Another concern is maybe with out the hot water heater is plumbed. Cold water goes in the bottom and hot water comes out the top. The bypass cuts off the water supply before going into the bottom of the water heater tank but it SEEMS to route it up to the top and out through the hot water lines. Is it possible that when I turned on the hot water faucet it started sucking some of the antifreeze into the water heater tank and also some of the antifreeze through the hot water lines to the rest of the faucets? Should I have not turned on my hot water faucets while doing the antifreeze deal?
I do not remember having this issue at all on the last trailer that I owned.
Any answers would be greatly appreciated.
Now I go and turn the fresh water bypass valve on so it stops pumping from the fresh tank and now from my bottle of antifreeze.
Ok so I'm ready to pump antifreeze through the system - I place the hose into the bottle of antifreeze and turn the water pump on and WHOOSH the whole bottle is almost instantly sucked dry. I figured I would leave all of the faucets closed until the system had some pressure. Now I open the cold and hot water faucets rotating through the coach but I am only able to get a little (maybe half of the bottle of antifreeze) to come through the faucets. Where did the rest of this go? I proceed to use another bottle of antifreeze and again I notice that I am not getting as much out of the faucets as I should be.
So.. I go outside and take the plug out of the water heater tank and SPLASH - PINK******EVERYWHERE.
My question is going on if I have the bypass valve turned on that is supposedly cutting off all water to the hot water tank? Why am I getting the pink stuff in the hot water heater?
The only logical explanation that I can come up with is that the valve cutoff to the water heater tank is maybe not turned on all the way? I doubt this though because I really yanked on that sucker. Maybe I should double check this?
Another concern is maybe with out the hot water heater is plumbed. Cold water goes in the bottom and hot water comes out the top. The bypass cuts off the water supply before going into the bottom of the water heater tank but it SEEMS to route it up to the top and out through the hot water lines. Is it possible that when I turned on the hot water faucet it started sucking some of the antifreeze into the water heater tank and also some of the antifreeze through the hot water lines to the rest of the faucets? Should I have not turned on my hot water faucets while doing the antifreeze deal?
I do not remember having this issue at all on the last trailer that I owned.
Any answers would be greatly appreciated.
