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rvexodus
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May 04, 2018

Electrical Smell? Water heater? Need some help!

Today after running both propane and electric heating on our suburban water heater, we started to smell a funny smell. It didn’t smell like rotten egg or any of the common smells. And we had a hard ti...
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Lynnmor
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May 05, 2018
westend wrote:
From your image, it looks like you have spider web or some other debis in that location. I'd suggest to brush or blow out the debris when the water heater is not in operation.


That, and I believe that I am seeing some warped sheet metal as well. Perhaps the flame was even worse till the debris was reduced from burning.

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