water heater drain mod
Visited my son this past weekend and he was watching me fight with the water heater drain plug. He is a mechanical engineer and always tinkering with something... so he said "DON'T have to do that ...
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philh wrote:spoon059 wrote:
Lots of engineering and contraptions being used...
All I do is open my low point drains and then open my pressure relief valve to break the vacuum. The water drains right out of the bottom of my trailer, right where Jayco designed it to empty.
Easy peasy, but most importantly... FREE. But hey, engineers like to justify themselves with gadgets. Good for them, I've ever even ridden on a train.
That won't completely empty the WH. You can also flush out the WH when you pull the plug
I've been told that the water heater will not drain through the low point drains. Apparently there is a check valve on the incoming cold line. There must be some reason it won't drain through the low point drain on the hot water line, although that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
