In alt.home.repair on Tue, 31 May 2005 02:14:27 GMT "Stormin Mormon"
posted:

He wanted to turn off the cold water input to the HWH and I said that
would pretty much stop the leak, but he figures air will get in
through the leak while water is getting out. And the leak won't stop.
Who is right??
CY: What's the other choice? You only gave us one.

I say the leak will stop. He says it won't.
CY: Most times the leak is very small. Air doesn't come back in -- so it
drains a couple ounces and stops. Frustrating, if you are trying to drain a
water heater. So, you open the temp pressure valve to let air in, so it will

Didn't think of that -- wish I had -- but he ended up going to sleep I
think with the hose out the door draining. It's at the bottom of a
narrow stairwell, and no strangers will even be near there before
breakfast tomorrow. He'll probably lock it tomorrow, but maybe I'll
go check.

drain. One time I drained a WH by drilling holes in it with a cordless
drill, and 3/8 bit.

he
wants to stop the leak tonight. I offeered to go over but so far he
has turned me down.
CY: Well, then, there's not much you can do.

He called 20 minutes later to say I should come over. I'm leaving
now, but I can read answers, if any, on their son's computer.
CY: Hope son's ISP gets alt home repair.

Might not but I was going to use groups.google.com . Very easy if one
remembers the exact thread name, or part of it.

But Netzero hung up on me once or twice and I never did get a good
connection. So I had to skip that until I got home.



I would try to find stuff on the web before posting, but I think it
would be hard and this is pretty much a rush question.
CY: Did you try?

No, because I figured he needed an answer soon. And I figured I'd be
going over there soon.
CY: OK, well, tht answered the question. However, I don't think you asked
the right question. Incidentally, the answer is 42.

I'll write that down.


Meirman
CY: Rather than trying to siphon the water off the cellar floor, you might
want to consider draining the water heater through a garden hose. Get the
water off the floor with a shopvac or carpet cleaner extractor.

OK.

Meirman


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