first time sanitize fresh water tanks
About to sanitize my tanks for the first time (we haven’t drunk the water from the tanks, we just use for cleaning and bathing and so on,, but we are about to go on a long trip with many dry days so w...
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Fisherman wrote:
Somehow I don't believe you understand the concept of plumbing. Activating the cold water heater by turning it on either electric or propane does nothing to circulate the water in the water heater tank. That's done by ensuring the water heater bypass taps are off and you end up filling the tank by running the pump. Open both hot and cold taps at all your sinks/showers to get the javex/water mix through them.
I i watched this video and now have more questions:
https://youtu.be/jEepug8N-aE
1. It says to use the bypass feature on the water heater, just like you said. Where would that be located? I see the panel to my suburban water heater, located on the outside of my trailer. Do I remove that panel to access the valves?
2. if i use the bypass, but water is still going into the water heater tank, what is being bypassed?
3. if I fill the system to overflow, is the water heater tank also filled to full to ensure all surfaces are sanitized?
4. The video says that I will know the system is full when the overflow under the trailer starts dripping. Is this true for all models? I see a short piece of 1” PVC coming down vertically from the bottom of my trailer and assume that is it?
5. so if I leave the water heater off, and bypass as per above, is there a small amount of contaminated water on the other side of the gates? When I run hot water through all the faucets, I’ll be drawing from the hot water tank, even though the water is cold?
