Big Al wrote:
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I know it sounds strange, but my water heater seems to fail to fully
heat the water once it initially gets hot. If I take a shower after
not using any hot water for several hours, it doesn't get past
lukewarm. Not cold, but definitely not hot. However, if I've
recently run a few gallons of hot water (i.e. within the last hour
or so) the shower is very hot for as long as I'd want to shower.
It's a 30gal, nat gas, Hotpoint model #HG30T1A, approx 4.5yrs old.
Anyone else experience this? Anything that can be adjusted to take
care of this?
Thanks,
Andy


If this is an electric water heater

Well since the OP wrote that is is a "a 30gal, nat gas" I doubt if it is
electric. :-)

I am glad I am not the only one who missed important parts of the
message.

I am going to make a wild, not thoughtful guess that it might be a bad
dip tube, but that does not seem to fit everything described. The only
other thing I can think of is a defective thermostat.

it has two elements an upper and a
lower. And, two thermostats, one turns off the other element. Here is
how it works. As you use a lot of water the upper element comes on.
As the water at the top gets hot, it goes off and the lower one goes
on to heat the reserve water.

Al

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