Went to flush it today as I haven’t done it in a while and it is obviously clogged with sediment. When I opened the valve it started to flow then stopped. Anyone have any ideas?
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Originally posted by Cookiemonster1 View Poststart to drain first with main water turned on and then turn off water as draining. might just not be getting air flow to drain. once drained if it as a lot of sediment you can remove the bottom element and use a wetvac with a PVC piece made to suck it all out.
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does it have a plastic drain valve ?.. if so you can take the top off of it and poke something in it to get flow...also...turn off inlet valve and unhook it that will relive airlock..might have to poke it a couple or ten times..lol..when it starts to spew at the outlet valve put that cap back on till it clogs again and repeat the unclof procedure....good luck
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You turn water off un screw the supply lines from nipples. If it doesn’t drain in screw the drain valve poke a wire in it and watch out sediment will start flowing out get a bucket to catch water . When it starts flowing out really good put valve back in hook up hose and drain it . If it stops draining do steps 1-3 again.
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Open a hot water faucet or several and see if that releases the air lock. If it does not i used an air blower hooked up to my air compressor at a low psi setting....30psi or so and blow thru your drain hose back into the water heater until it start to drain. It took a few cycles to get it going.
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