We thought we had a septic tank, but our landlord told us it is just a pipe buried on a gravel field. A plumber ran a baffle pump down it and found it was blocked. I ran our 50 foot garden hose down and came back with white grease all over it. I think this happened over the winter. I can hook a garden hose up to my water heater, but will that be hot enough? None of the liquid plumber type things have worked. This gentleman at Lowe’s suggested the hot water down the hose too.

I just moved to a house (built 2006). I decided to drain the water heater to reduce sediments. My electric water heater is 80 gal by AO Smith (ECT 80 200).

So I attached the garden hose to the drain valve, turned off the circuit breaker (40A) labeled HWH. Open the nearest hot water faucet, turned off water supply then open the drain valve.

After 45 minutes (I also turned the water supply on ocassionally to flush), I closed the drain valve, open the water supply, and when I was sure there is no vacuum in the water lines I closed the hot water faucet.

When I was certain that the tank was full, I opened the hot water faucet and I noticed that it is getting warm then hot even if I have not turned the water heater circuit breaker to ON. I run it for another 10 minutes but the water is still warm/hot.

What could the possible reasons be:
the electrician labeled the circuit breaker incorrectly?
or is there another switch to totally turn off the water heater?

Thanks.

To make a long story short, our well pump went bad. To get running water until it could be replaced, my landlord ran a garden hose from my neighbor’s house into our house, and hooked it up behind the washer where the water supply is (I’m not sure which nozzle he used, but I think it was the one for hot water.) Everything is fixed now, but when I do laundry the cold water won’t shut off…the machine starts to agitate and the cold water keeps running. I have to turn it off at the wall. The hot water is fine though. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

I am a garbage man by trade.A couple of months ago i had to pick up rolls of discarded carpet during a very strong storm and the ditches where this carpet was located were filled with water so deep that it ran into the top of my 12 inch tall waterproof boots.When i got home i took them off and noticed that they reeked of cat urine.I set them outside to dry and air out.A week later they were dry but still smelled just as bad.I scrubbed them inside and out with dawn dishwashing detergent,a brush.and hot water and rinsed them good with the garden hose.Then i let them dry and air out for another week.They were a little better but still terrible on the inside.I found some isopryl spray at a shoe store that was supposed to remove foot odor and tried it on the inside of the boots-no good.They are very expensive and i hate to throw them away-any ideas?
I know bleach gets rid of anything but will it harm my waterproof lining or my gore-tex insulation?

I needed to replace the 2 elements on my 65 gall. water heater. I attached a garden hose to the bottom running out into the downhill yard, turned off the water supply and turned on a hot water faucet, then opened the drain faucet and left it open a long time until absolutely no water was coming out.

I replaced the upper element and it was bone dry. When I got the lower element out, gallons and gallons of water spilled out on the floor. The tank was nowhere near empty. Any thoughts why this might be? My only guess is sediment blocked the drain, but that doesn’t seem likely as it started a little dark then cleared up and ran clear as long as I watched it?

I ask this because I’m building a flower garden and the only way to water it is by running a hose from inside the house. The water pressure isn’t too great unless I mix in some hot water with the cold (kind of like a warm – but not hot – shower).

Is this bad?

I save /mo. on our water heating bill by installing a solar pre-heater made of 200′ of garden hose on my roof. From Amazon I bought two 100′ GILMORE 3/4 inch FLEXOGEN hoses (withstands 500 psi pressure), laid it out n garage roof, hooked it to the cold water pipe that goes to gas waterheater. Now all cold water to the waterheater is solar pre-heated. I installed 3 shut- off valves, in case I want to take the solar heater out of the system. One at the beginning of the garden hose loop, one at the end, and one in the coldwater line between the beginning of the solar heater loop and the end. It cost me 0 for the hose and less than for the rest.
At savings in gas a month, it will have paid for itself in l0 months. To use mostly solar-heated water, we don’t use hot water before 10 or after 4.
I did this 3 months ago and the gas waterheater hasn’t been on since. The solar heated water is 135F, and the gas waterheater is at 125F. We always get 135F water at the faucet

my brother turned it off an hour ago, b4 dat lots a hot water, so i re lit pilot, its on, flaming, but NO WATER comes out of sink when hot water turned on, only cold when cold on….there are is a knob outside by garden hose, which controls hot water, but it wont do anything to influence hot water coming out at this time, but did before

thanks for helping, need to get hardened soap OOOFFF ME!! TIME A FACTOR HAHAHHA.

why would it be that if someone turns the garden hose on, that I lose hot water in the shower

- cold water comes out of the hose
- noone was using much hotwater earlier

It is single digit weather right now with subzero windchills. It looks to be staying that way for another 5 days or so. Yesterday when we went to do a load of laundry, the washer would not come if a cold cycle was involved. Only hot water would come out, even if it was a warm/cold setting. I’m assuming that the pipe holding the cold water has frozen. We live in a slab home and I have no clue if anything has burst or not. Everything looks normall. The washer and dryer are in our kitchen, next to the kitchen counter up against an exterior wall and is very cold (didn’t insulate the dryer vent as we should have) When I peak behind the dryer, I see a long pipe on the floor extending from the kitchen cabinets. There is one small spot on the pipe that looks white, maybe frost? All the other cold water sources are working fine . Sinks, shower, everything but the cold setting on the washer, and the outside water spigot (hook a garden hose up to). I have no idea where to begin!