socalbruin
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Hi,
Hoping someone can help me with this problem.
We have a 100Gal gas water heater and a recirculating pump installed when the house was built in 2001. It used to take about 10 sec for the water to get hot at the faucet. Recently it is taking 5 minutes before we get hot water at the tap, but once the water is hot, it stays hot and works fine.
I've checked the pump to make sure it was working, no obstructions in the piping as far as I can tell (no difference in water pressure from before). I tried to drain the water heater but seems like sediment/calcification has set in on the drain tap so water trickles out slowly. I've noticed that with hot water running it takes about 3 min for the water heater flames to turn on.
Why is the water heater taking so long to turn on?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Hoping someone can help me with this problem.
We have a 100Gal gas water heater and a recirculating pump installed when the house was built in 2001. It used to take about 10 sec for the water to get hot at the faucet. Recently it is taking 5 minutes before we get hot water at the tap, but once the water is hot, it stays hot and works fine.
I've checked the pump to make sure it was working, no obstructions in the piping as far as I can tell (no difference in water pressure from before). I tried to drain the water heater but seems like sediment/calcification has set in on the drain tap so water trickles out slowly. I've noticed that with hot water running it takes about 3 min for the water heater flames to turn on.
Why is the water heater taking so long to turn on?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.