Hot water tank...sometimes has flow...sometimes doesn't
We have a 2000 Winnebago Adventurer with a 10 Gallon Atwood water heater, Model #GCH10A-3E. It's been acting up for over a year.
Somedays water flows like it should. Other days, nothing but a trickle or nothing at all. Hubby will alternate what he does to fix it... putting air and/or water into it in various places. He has always been able to get it to work but every morning we get up and wonder if we'll be able to take a hot shower.
Wednesday morning it was working until hubby changed the filter on the incoming water line. We have a sediment screen and a corded white filter set-up to filter all the water coming into the rig. We've done this for years. What did changing the filter had to do with the hot water ceasing to flow?
Thursday hubby worked all day on the stupid thing. I downloaded manuals off the internet. I'm not sure how much he read them because this morning he was musing out loud, wondering,
What kind of a gadget or valve would be on the input of the water heater around the back that should be replaced?
Anyway, Thursday he worked all day on it. Deemed it dead. We could have all the cold water we wanted flowing out of the faucets but when you turned on any hot water valve you got nothing. I turned off all the LP/electric to it and we checked prices for a new one online.
Friday morning When I was explaining to a friend how we didn't have hot water because water would not flow out of the faucet when I turned on the hot water... and then flipped on the kitchen faucet to show her we had cold water flowing but no hot water flow out of the tank... water flowed with good pressure no matter which way I turned the faucet. I turned on the electric and LP to heat the water and in a couple of hours I had all the hot water I wanted. It worked fine all day then for the rest of the day.
Got up this morning and no flow from the hot water. Cold water flows fine but nothing from the bathroom or kitchen or tub hot water faucets. Everything was fine when we went to bed last night.
I've got single handle faucets in the kitchen and bathroom sink but the tub has a hot water knob and a cold water knob. We have cleaned the screens on them.
If anyone knows which valve or gadget needs to be replaced on that tank... or if we are just better off replacing the whole thing... please tell us.
Somedays water flows like it should. Other days, nothing but a trickle or nothing at all. Hubby will alternate what he does to fix it... putting air and/or water into it in various places. He has always been able to get it to work but every morning we get up and wonder if we'll be able to take a hot shower.
Wednesday morning it was working until hubby changed the filter on the incoming water line. We have a sediment screen and a corded white filter set-up to filter all the water coming into the rig. We've done this for years. What did changing the filter had to do with the hot water ceasing to flow?
Thursday hubby worked all day on the stupid thing. I downloaded manuals off the internet. I'm not sure how much he read them because this morning he was musing out loud, wondering,
What kind of a gadget or valve would be on the input of the water heater around the back that should be replaced?
Anyway, Thursday he worked all day on it. Deemed it dead. We could have all the cold water we wanted flowing out of the faucets but when you turned on any hot water valve you got nothing. I turned off all the LP/electric to it and we checked prices for a new one online.
Friday morning When I was explaining to a friend how we didn't have hot water because water would not flow out of the faucet when I turned on the hot water... and then flipped on the kitchen faucet to show her we had cold water flowing but no hot water flow out of the tank... water flowed with good pressure no matter which way I turned the faucet. I turned on the electric and LP to heat the water and in a couple of hours I had all the hot water I wanted. It worked fine all day then for the rest of the day.
Got up this morning and no flow from the hot water. Cold water flows fine but nothing from the bathroom or kitchen or tub hot water faucets. Everything was fine when we went to bed last night.
I've got single handle faucets in the kitchen and bathroom sink but the tub has a hot water knob and a cold water knob. We have cleaned the screens on them.
If anyone knows which valve or gadget needs to be replaced on that tank... or if we are just better off replacing the whole thing... please tell us.
