"bob haller" wrote in message
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On Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:02:28 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
Oh so annoying! I had called the plumber because it was getting to where

our replacement water heater had to be lit once a day. Initially we had
a

new one installed on New Year's Eve, 2009. It worked for a while but
then I

had to keep relighting it. At first it was perhaps every three months,
then

every week then like every half an hour.



They never could find out what was wrong with it. They replaced every
part

they could and finally just gave us a new one. And it was fine at first.

But the same problems started happening up until now! I just relight it

perhaps 2 hours ago when daughter took a shower and ran out of hot water.
I

had gotten to the point of being OCD in checking it to make sure it was

still lit. And it had been the last time I looked. And even though it
is a

50 gallon tank, apparently when it goes out, the water cools very
quickly.



So I relit it, called the plumber because it was getting to where I had
to

light it daily. Plumber asked me some questions about it and I had to go

out there to look at it. And it it wasn't lit! So it went out less than
20

minutes after I lit it. And now it won't light at all. Grrr... Grrr...

Grrr...



I am sick of this. And they can't do anything about it tonight. Guy
said

he could come out here but I would have to pay $150 just to get him out
as

it would be after hours charges. But he had no clue whether or not he
could

do anything about it tonight. So... We wait.



Only thing I can figure is that it might be the venting. That is the
only

thing they didn't check. They did say that the last one wasn't drafting

properly or something like that.



I thought maybe that it had something to do with humidity. We had a few

humid days lately and it seemed to go out when it was humid. Then the

torrential downpour throughout the night last night that knocked the
power

out. Amazingly enough the thing stayed lit through all that.

a realtive of mine had this problem, turned out to be low gas pressure in
her neighborhood, it was a intermittenly bad regulat owned by the gas
company.....

this occured many states away so i am sorry but lack details.

OP should call their gas supplier to get the homes gad pressure checked.

simple stuff can screw stuff up.

my step sons van broke down. he called me in the middle of the night
saying it just quit. The gas gauge was flakey in that van, but he assured
me it wasnt out of gas.

van got towed to garage I told the garage check to make sure it has gas..

880 bucks later with a new battery and new fuel pump, the garage gave up
and said we dont know whats wrong.

hadvan towed to dealer, they were very busy. van sat for 5 days..

dealer noted gas gauge showed empty, put in one gallon of gas, van started
right up....

conclusions.....

van ran out of gas, stepson and garage didnt catch that van was out of
gas.

dealer was nice only charged for gasoline..

The gas pressure actually checked out fine.