How do you know if your water heater is full?
Ok - so I have read never turn on the 110 heater coil in your water heater unless it has water in it - how do you know if its full or not?
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malexander wrote:
Turn on the hot water side of a faucet, when you get a steady stream of water with no burping or belching of air, you know it's full. I run ALL the faucets (hot side) for a bit just to be sure.
Also, make sure you're not in bypass mode.
Great point on making sure your're not in bypass mode. I just recently burned up element in our 5V because of valves being in bypass mode.
I messed up by not switching the valves back to their normal operating position JUST AS SOON AS I completed draining & blowing out water lines.
When I come back in spring, I falsely assumed that WH had water in when I turned water on. Bad mistake, you know the rest of the story!
Short story is, yes, turn on water at each faucet and/or open WH safety valve to ensure that a solid stream of water is flowing.
