Hot water drain
I have the hot water plug with a drain cock in it like a car radiator has , if I leave the plug in and just open the drain cock is that good enough for the winter? I prefer not to use the pink stuff ...
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Bypass the WH
Open your drain pet-cock (something I take you have installed)
Open WH PRV and water will drain out of tank and with it bypassed nothing will go into tank if you pump pink stuff thru lines.
The drain pet-cock is a good way of drain water out of tank BUT it is a very small drain hole so any stuff in the tank will not get flushed out.
Atwood drain holes are only 1/2"....at least Suburban has a 3/4" drain hole.
I suspect you have an Atwood.....because of the drain pet-cock being installed (no anode rod) so your drain hole is only 1/4".
Occasional draining thru that little hole is OK.....just remove it a couple times a year and give that tank a good flushing. And make sure you use several wraps of teflon tape on the plug so that steel or brass plug and those aluminum threads don't become fused and those aluminum threads strip out.
Open your drain pet-cock (something I take you have installed)
Open WH PRV and water will drain out of tank and with it bypassed nothing will go into tank if you pump pink stuff thru lines.
The drain pet-cock is a good way of drain water out of tank BUT it is a very small drain hole so any stuff in the tank will not get flushed out.
Atwood drain holes are only 1/2"....at least Suburban has a 3/4" drain hole.
I suspect you have an Atwood.....because of the drain pet-cock being installed (no anode rod) so your drain hole is only 1/4".
Occasional draining thru that little hole is OK.....just remove it a couple times a year and give that tank a good flushing. And make sure you use several wraps of teflon tape on the plug so that steel or brass plug and those aluminum threads don't become fused and those aluminum threads strip out.
