Flushed my water heater today (1 Viewer)

[tomwaits]

After the water boil notice ended, figured it was a good idea to flush the water heaters and we had not flushed them since the house was built (about 16 months).
YouTube guy said to do it every year to get sediments out. I figured the water softener would have removed most of the calcium etc, but we got a lot of white chunks of calcium out of both water heaters.

If you guys don't flush your water heaters regularly, you will probably want to do it.

I'm probably the only moron who didn't regularly flush the water heater on the board, so feel free to berate me.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

never heard of such a thing

 

[jboss]

Everytime I do mine some hard water comes out. We have pretty hard city water in the Parish so I try to do it as often as I can.

 

[livefromDC]

never heard of such a thing

You've never flushed the ole water heater? I don't believe you. I know for a fact that married men still do it.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

You've never flushed the ole water heater? I don't believe you. I know for a fact that married men still do it.

ooooohhhhhhhh... "hard" water...now, i get it

 

[tomwaits]

This thread went downhill about exactly as fast as I thought it would.

 

[Brennan77]

Shouldn't this be behind the levee?

 

[tomwaits]

Everytime I do mine some hard water comes out. We have pretty hard city water in the Parish so I try to do it as often as I can.

Yearly, or more often than that?

 

[efil4stnias]

This thread went downhill about exactly as fast as I thought it would.

juveniles all around.

 

[FLEA]

...A HOT WATER HEATER, AN INDIAN AND AN ACCOUNTANT WENT INTO A BAR.

 

[tomwaits]

Some people like tankless, but some guys like a big ol' tank...

 

[Wisco Steve]

I just had an 'iron curtain' system installed, also have a softener--as we have a well (our house was built new about 3 yrs ago) and the plumber told me flushing the heater does not matter...his reasoning (not sure if right or wrong) was that the flush valve is roughly 6-10" above the bottom of the tank where any sediment would be...

 

[Devildog]

I hope you have a big tank because I'm going to put some hard water in it.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

How’d you manage to fit it in the toilet?

 

[Complex Kid]

I'm probably the only moron who didn't regularly flush the water heater on the board, so feel free to berate me.

*quickly googles how to flush a hot water heater...