Question about propane water heater?
Is it best practice to turn off the water heater at night and then light it and turn it back on in the morning for showers? Obviously turning it off will save propane but is it causing additional w...
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afidel wrote:ktmrfs wrote:
we turn ours off at night or if we are gone for more than 4 hours or so. more of a anal safety issue than anything else. the water will stay warm enough overnight, get up in the morning, turn it on, have my coffee and it is hot enough for showers etc.
Do you need to do this? NO. does it cause any reliability problems. I seriously doubt it.
Yeah, I turn it off at night because the bunks are directly over the hot water heater. The likelyhood of a problem is small but the results would be unimaginably bad so the simple act of turning it off is worth the piece of mind. I turn it on when I use the bathroom in the morning and it's ready for cooking or morning showers. The hot water heater is going to cycle no matter what so that wear and tear would be a wash, the switch is probably good for a couple thousand activations minimum and is easy and cheap to replace if it fails.
I don't understand what would go wrong that would be a safety issue ?
They are vented to outside as far as carbon monoxide is concerned. And they have a relief valve if the pressure gets to high. (I suppose you could test the relief valve once a year if you want) But, when was the last time you ever heard of one blowing up ? I think myth busters did a episode on one of them blowing up and they had a hard time getting it to blow up when they wanted it to.
