Hot Water Flush
Wow!, just flushed my hot water heater with the wand thing I purchased somewhere along the way. The amount of crud that came out flabbergasted me, I am/was so surprised that that much could be accumul...
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down home wrote:
I see a lot of Folks that don't use filters or use the little ones that load up quickly, and don't filter well either, at campgrounds in the mid west with well water. You;re going to get a lot of sediment from a hundred or more RVs using water at roughly the same time or any time. Our 10 inch filter with clear casing shows the pile of dirt after jus a day or two, espcailly if we use the water.
I asked one RVer why he didn't use a filter. He said they don't drink it just wash and cook with it and flush the toilet. Hummm His white towel looked rather bad shade of yellow/brown. He was having trouble with hose fitting. It was full of dirt, in the threads.
Doesn't much matter.
Unless you have an RO system that removes minerals
Heating water causes existing minerals to settle faster and in larger quantities. As the water is heated, it becomes lighter and less dense. The solids will settle at a faster rate. The result is sediment collecting at the bottom of the tank
