pilot light

Hello! New to forum, also may lose my mind if I can't fix my WH! My pilot light went out randomly on Father's Day. No reason at all that I know of. I turn it to "OFF", waited a good 20 minutes or so then turned it to "Pilot" held that down for a minute or so then hit "Ignite" thirty times at...

Hello! New to forum, also may lose my mind if I can't fix my WH! My pilot light went out randomly on Father's Day. No reason at all that I know of. I turn it to "OFF", waited a good 20 minutes or so then turned it to "Pilot" held that down for a minute or so then hit "Ignite" thirty times at...

I've got two 11 year old Whirlpool Natural Gas water heaters that have both started exhibiting the same problem within a couple of months of each other. The pilot lights have been going out. When I relight them, there's some orange in the flame. One of these units has stayed lit, after...

I learned this lesson the hard way. Pilot light started going out. Plumber recommended a new thermocouple for the 7-year-old Rheem water heater. I agreed. Still went out. He recommended a new gas controller. I agreed. Still went out. I called Rheem. They said it was "environmental." I told the...

I have a State Select natural gas water heater vintage 2003. It has a standing pilot light. No hot water one morning, so I pulled the burner and thermocouple/pilot assy out and the thermocouple was visibly bad. It has a component part inline in the thermocouple bracket and it was visibly...

Good afternoon & thanks in advance for your help & advice I have an American water heater, “FG” series from 2005. I recently awoke to my water heater spraying approximately 6 gallons of hot water out of my tpr valve along with significant condensation on the copper water pipe running into it...

It's a Kenmore PowerMiser 9, several years old. The pilot went out and won't relight. I took out the burner unit and found that I get a nice spark. I disconnected the gas line to the pilot, blew through it, and found it was clear. I made certain that gas was following through the thermostat...