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Hot Water Heater Heat Pump. Portable Heater Thermostat. Hayward H200 Pool Heater. Hot Water Heater Heat Pump
Drain The Bottom of Your Water Heater On the far east side of El Paso, Texas the tap water supplied by El Paso Water Utilities comes from fairly deep wells. They pump up the very top layer of an ice age aquifer with good drinkable water. This can be thought of as floating on top of over a thousand feet of salty water. Since the salty water is heavier it tends to sink over the aeons, and the good drinkable water slowly rises to the top of the aquifer. This drinking water has a fairly high total dissolved solids (TDS), which normally would mean that it is high in dissolved calcium and magnesium. When this water is heated, as in your coffee maker or water heater, some of these dissolved solids tend to precipitate out. When dealing with elevated-TDS-tap-water like this, it is important that one drains out the bottom of your water heater twice per year. Doing so will reduce the amount of natural gas that it takes to heat your water; also if you don't ever drain this stuff out, the tank of the hot water heater will fail many years sooner than it would have if you had done the regular, required maintenance. This is a picture I took today of some of the gunk which comes out when I drain the hot water heater out the hose bib at the bottom. Modified water circuit
The outlet from the thermostat housing is the hot water to the heating circuit. The TEE joint pipe connection has the cold water from the pump bypass at the front and the return water from the heating circuit at the right, the mixed hot and cold water exit towards the rear connection and out to the exhaust. I used 8mm copper pipe, the original pipe work was 5/16ths and 3/8ths. Related topics: water heaters reviews convection space heater menards tankless water heater on demand tankless water heaters electric water heater comparison panel heaters prices ge heat pump water heater eco heater panel |