Water Heater Flooded basement.

[fitz19d]

When you replace the water heater, you might want to replace the water pressure regulator too. If you have a water pressure regulator, that is. If you don't have one, you might want to consider one. Pic below of a typical "pressure regulator". It keeps excess water pressure from damaging your plumbing. Just my 2 pennies...

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Pretty sure theres one at the main line into house. Those prone to dying too then? At least in there is next to the real drains.

[MarkCO]

Pretty sure theres one at the main line into house. Those prone to dying too then? At least in there is next to the real drains.

No, they are pretty good for the most part. No idea why he thinks that is a good idea, or where he got the idea to replace anodes annually.

[BushMasterBoy]

Pretty sure theres one at the main line into house. Those prone to dying too then? At least in there is next to the real drains.

Mine lasted 7 years in this brand new house. Ate right through the housing. Couple years ago, friends water heater T&P kept blowing out water, flooding below the house. Had to change the pressure regulator. Took 20 minutes to do hers. Mine was in the wall. Ridiculous idea. I had to cut the panel out and reroute the plumbing to reinstall a new one. I was lucky it was a pinhole leak and only made a few square yards lightly damp. This just my opinion. BMB out.

[Irving]

So what's going on with this?

[fitz19d]

I think it helped that i think we caught it within a couple hours. Initially it was in like 1/4 of the adjacent room and was interesting feeling it wick to the far end of the room even after wife had Stanley steemer vacuum truck plus rug Doctor. Once i got home after assessing, i pulled the carpet up which was easy with one tiny corner already up, so came off tack strip no problem. Pulled the pad which weighed a ton still outside.

Rented dehumidifier, 2 industrial fans plus several house fans and cranked heat. By second night was pretty bone dry, but kept everything running thru the third day. Fortunately with floating walls, nothing else was really wet. Only other thing was dry wall that was getting splatter from top of heater rather than wicking from floor. First evening i was able to rub my hand in circles on the bubble and pinch/fold in paint and actually got it to settle back into place leaving no sign. Was kinda shocked.


Right now waiting a week to get a Longmont carpet guy to come put the carpet back down right since I'm sure id mess it up.

$700 heater and $300 in rentals hasn't been the worst.

[Irving]

Sounds like it's going well then.