On Feb 13, 11:40*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Feb 13, 11:01*am, Bob wrote:

Hello,

What is the "typical," Safe, temp. setting for the vertical style gas
fired house hot water heater ?

Wife is always complaining about not enough hot water, but am a bit
concerned about making the dialed temp., too hot, and perhaps increasing
the pressure in the tank too much, or making unsafe in some other way.

Opinions ?

Thanks,
B.

You have a "hot water heater"?

What do you use to heat the water to make it hot before it goes into
your "hot water heater"? ;-)

have a friend who feared his aging mom would get burned from hot
water, she couldnt really feel it.

so he added a tempering valve, otherwise called a anti scald valve,
but he fed his dishwasher before that valve and set his hot water tank
to maximum.

i forget the details but he said it doubled his tanks capacity and no
one could get burned, plus his dishwasher worked better than it ever
had...this also elminates the risk of legionaires disease.

i am surprised the feds havent made such a valve mandatory......