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Posted: Thu Jun 28th, 2007 06:47 pm |
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Our 2-story home and electric water heater are 3 years old.
No issues until a couple weeks ago we noticed that in the morning our shower or bath in the master bathroom upstairs only had luke warm water and it would run out quickly, but all the downstairs spigets pulled hot water just fine. If I was to take a shower in the afternoon or evening, I had hot water just fine.
The issue is intermittent also.....some mornings I have hot water just fine and there's no problem.
Thank you for any ideas or solutions.
Last edited on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 06:49 pm by cb4
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Posted: Fri Jun 29th, 2007 12:52 am |
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Hello: I'm guessing you have a hot water recirculation line. If so, the check valve in the line is stuck open. If none of the above fits, there may be a cross connection in the plumbing 
Yours, Larry
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cb4
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Posted: Fri Jun 29th, 2007 04:52 am |
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eleent wrote: Hello: I'm guessing you have a hot water recirculation line. If so, the check valve in the line is stuck open. If none of the above fits, there may be a cross connection in the plumbing
Yours, Larry
Hi, how would I know if I had a recirculation line? I dont know the first thing about water heaters. 
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elenano
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Posted: Fri Jun 29th, 2007 03:23 pm |
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If you have a recirc, there will be a return line, where water comes back into the water heater. A lot of them flow back in at the drain valve. A few flow back into the incoming cold-water line. There is an example in the Lingo section of Troubleshooting, reachable from the link on the home page. Check that out.
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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 02:35 pm |
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| turns out it was the lower heating element. I replaced that and all is well.
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