Maintenance Tip # 1 Preparing the water heater
Turn off the power if its an electric kettle. Turn off the water in the boiler by closing the valve on the cold water line. He removed the top of the boiler. The cold line is always right. Open to open a hot water inside the house. The air pressure comes from the tap. Open the drain valve at the bottom of the boiler. It looks like a tube BIBB. Leave a gallon or more of the boiler. Notallow anyone to hot water for as long as you use to work the boiler.
Maintenance Tip # 2 Remove sediment melting
You called sediment using a water softener to dissolve Mag-ERAD. E 'used by AO Smith, who also builds water heaters manufactured. Use the instructions provided with the softening, but it ignores the part of leaving the gas water heater. Turn off the heat from it PILOT. The heat in the boiler without water may damage the gasSystems. You can also resolve liquor in the sediment. Its very volatile and flammable. A plumber should only use this chemical.
Maintenance Tip # 3 sediment control
Sediment can be kept under control if you use fresh water. The softened salt water is only reduced sediment, and get rid of the problem and caused another problem. Anode rods life expectancy is reduced by 50% to 65%. Sediment is growing rapidly to 140 degrees. Legionnaires 'disease' can grow at temperatures of 115Degrees or less. To set these two problems at bay, his best suits your hot water at 130 degrees. Legionnaires 'disease' is in possession of the inhalation of vapors of water to drink contaminated water can cause. But in the hospitals of plumbing need to be regularly filled with water 170 degrees to kill any remaining bacteria.
The only way to check what temperature the water is really, is to fill a cup with hot water and a meat thermometer into the cup. If you have a gas stove, theDial on it can until the hot water to 130 degrees can be set comes from the tap. Be sure to recover the boiler a chance between the adjustment on the dial. An hour should be. Some gas water heaters can produce the size of the flame. Look to the center of the controller and see if a small screw-key as it is. If so, you can use this button to adjust the size of the flame. If you have any problems, just hot water, as it is, then let it be, anyway. IfDo you have a problem of sediment in an electric kettle, have installed a low-watt density element. Let not be fooled by its name. It is not as hot as a component of high density watts, but the surface of the low-watt heating and is double good. The low heat slows the production of sediment. If you have high water pressure exceeds 50 bar have, then have a plumber install a pressure water heater. High blood pressure causes more sediment structure.
Maintenance Tip 4 CheckWarm water taps
Check all bolts on your water heater for possible leaks. Threaded on top of the boiler and the cold and fly away to and from the hot water. The T & P valve, which is located on one side of the boiler can be losses. Have a connection with a plastic tube and a switch melted metal, stay up until the end. The drain valve may be losses. It is at the bottom of the boilerand often looks like a hose bib. The thermostat controls for water heaters and gas water heater can be lost. The control of gas wrote the words ON / OFF / PILOT on it. The electric controls are located behind one, but usually two metal trays on the front of the boiler.
Maintenance Tip # 5 steel connections
Rust can occur when copper touched a steel or brass. Rust not only the steel copper or brass. Copper and brass on the steel endPeriodic Table. To control this problem on a boiler with a stainless steel nipple with a plastic coating. This makes touching the boiler, stainless steel fitting without problems. The ring of steel with a plastic coating can also affect the copper tubing, because the plastic prevents them from touching. Dielectric unions can also affect steel nipples, because its function is to prevent rust or corrosion.
Maintenance Tip 6 nipples Broken
In case of breakage during removal nipplewith a wrench, take a flat-end screwdriver and a hammer. Hit the open circle with a screwdriver and a hammer and turn the ring. Now with the screwdriver, pry the nipple broke. Use a hacksaw to cut only the opener on the wire, but the screwdriver does the trick. Clean the threads to open a pipe. Now wrap the nipple again with Teflon on the threads and tap install.
Maintenance Tip 7 Electric heaters
To control the electric heatingElements of a real electric water heater, the two ports on the front of the boiler. Sometimes there is only one door, but still, you must remove them. Below you can see the heaters are bolted or screwed into the boiler and kept sealed by a rubber gasket. Remove the entry, but only if you drained the water heater and turned the power first. Replace the gasket if the rubber has hardened. Wrap the item with teflon tape, if the discussions.Put the tape on the thread and wrap a couple of times. Hard scale can be built directly on a heating pad. This is rare but can happen. Scala crusts usually only of assets and falls to the bottom of the boiler. If enough scale (also known as sediment) down to the bottom of the boiler, it could bury the lowest element. There are two types of heaters, high watt density element and the low-watt density element. The sediment-Watt High outline moreeasy, but the total amount of sediment due to higher temperatures. A low-watt creates lower overall sediment, because it is not so hot, but hot water is a good because it has twice the area. It tends to flake off more easily if scale directly. In most cases, the problems of low-watt density element less. Items can be cleaned. Use a toothbrush and vinegar to clean the soft sediment on them. If your anodeRods become damaged, this can affect your items. Corrosive action between the copper and steel on the lid of the boiler is slowly rising losses and destroy the items. If the products are often burned for a replacement, the anode could be the cause.
