So it is a rainy day in Sacramento Ca. I'm cleaning out all of my tools from the garage and putting them in the shed. (It makes wife happy)

While I'm cleaning I get to thinking I should flush out the debris in the bottom of the hot water heater. I hook up the hose to the funky plastic cylindrical hot water heater flush fitting and viola I have a hot water cleaner for my truck. I give the truck a once around,(still raining) and decide that there is not enough pressure from the hot water heater.

I grab the plastic fitting on the hot water heater and give it one final counterclockwise turn and low and behold the plastic fitting came off in my hand. 40 gallons+ of now luke warm water came gushing out of the place that the fitting used to be! Still connected to the hose I'm trying frantically to reinstall the fitting while the water deluges my garage. I vault to the top of the dryer (now dented) and turn off the water supply to the hot water heater! But this only slows the water flow now washing my new minifridge and rollaway tool box into oblivion.

Finally I got the funky cylindrical valve back in place hoping that I do not have to replace the water heater tonight! And the fitting worked!!!

(Mental note if you have a cylindrical valve on the water heater valve replace it asap with a real valve)

Still laughing but awfully wet!

Rick

 

And the moral of the story is......Don't let Rick touch your hot water heater. Glad it turned out ok for ya though, that would have been tough to explain to the Mrs.

 

IS going to be tough to explain!!! I think he mentioned a new dent in the top of the dryer. I wonder if anyone in the house will notice his new found interest in doing the laundry??

 

I called the wife out frominside the house and she said ,"Just a minute", I said," No, Now!!"

I have a problem that may require household surgery!!

LMAO!!

Murphys law prevails!!!

Rick

 

Boy, when you get into hot water you REALLY get into HOT water!!!

 

me watching Rick and enjoying the white mocha

 

I'll plumb your fuel system anytime guys!!!

Rick

 

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funky plastic cylindrical hot water heater flush fitting

That thing is supposed to come off when you unscrew it so you can let the sand out.
I usually break them off when they are inside someones apartment, and they are watching me.
Jim

 

Many years ago, I was at my Mothers for Christmas vacation.
She had been complaining about the ever increasing lack of hot water.
So, on Christmas Eve, I get out there (Water heater is located on exterior side of house) and proceede to drain/flush the water heater.
The drain plug broke and would no longer close.
No need to tell you how hard it is to get a plumber out at ~ 5:00pm on Christmas Eve.
Well, we found one, an older guy that had probably been doing this kind of thing for decades who turned out to be very a friendly guy, kind and had a grey beard too.
After replacing the drain plug, we invited him to stay for dinner.

Moral of that story... dont start a project at someone elses house on a day that all the hardware stores are closed.



Rich

 

Many years ago in Albuquerque, I was helping my father-in-law unclog a sewer. He had removed the john and rented a 50 ft power auger. We pushed all the auger into the drain with no luck opening the sewer and we were only about 40 ft from the street. I'll never forget the kachunk - kachunk sound it made when we found the auger on the roof wrapped around the TV antenna.

 

Yeah but that PBS station has NEVER come in that clear again

 

I'm surprised he even put an antenna up there with all the EDIT on the roof. I thought Rhode Island was messed up, but running your crapper seat pipe up to the roof, priceless. No wonder santa dosen't land there.

 

Wolfeman, that is classic! That's the hardest I've laughed in a couple days.