Hi All,
well this has been going on for sometime, but it isn't that big of an issue either. What it is, when you run the water in any of the outlets, the water pressure keeps dropping and then just as quickly, it comes right back up again. It also tends to change the temperature of the blended water to a cooler or really a cold temperature especially when you are "blending" the water at the spouts, as in trying to attain a warm water and not too hot. This seems to be worse on the outlets closest to the source.
Where I had installed a water tempering valve sometime ago without a shut off to my hot water outlet of my electric water heater due to my preheating of my water in my wood furnace and the fact that the water was coming out too hot to the outlets, I installed a shut off valve to isolate this tempering valve, that did not help. I figured that the tempering valve was dumping cold water into my hot water outlet, that does not appear to be the case, after this test.
I do also have a tempering valve in the water feed to my toilet to keep it from sweating in the Summer, which I suspected from the beginning. I also isolated that and it did not help, problem still existed.
I feel that it's either a problem with the air bladder in my water tank, which I would have to drain to check properly or there is some issue with my electric water heater.
In case this helps, I have a submersible pump with a 40 gallon air bladder tank in my cellar, a 52 gallon Sears electric water heater and I supplement that with a 3/4" brass pipe coil in my wood furnace, which also has a 30 gallon circulating tank as well and the water from that is piped into the hot water side of the electric water heater.
Thoughts?
Thanks
well this has been going on for sometime, but it isn't that big of an issue either. What it is, when you run the water in any of the outlets, the water pressure keeps dropping and then just as quickly, it comes right back up again. It also tends to change the temperature of the blended water to a cooler or really a cold temperature especially when you are "blending" the water at the spouts, as in trying to attain a warm water and not too hot. This seems to be worse on the outlets closest to the source.
Where I had installed a water tempering valve sometime ago without a shut off to my hot water outlet of my electric water heater due to my preheating of my water in my wood furnace and the fact that the water was coming out too hot to the outlets, I installed a shut off valve to isolate this tempering valve, that did not help. I figured that the tempering valve was dumping cold water into my hot water outlet, that does not appear to be the case, after this test.
I do also have a tempering valve in the water feed to my toilet to keep it from sweating in the Summer, which I suspected from the beginning. I also isolated that and it did not help, problem still existed.
I feel that it's either a problem with the air bladder in my water tank, which I would have to drain to check properly or there is some issue with my electric water heater.
In case this helps, I have a submersible pump with a 40 gallon air bladder tank in my cellar, a 52 gallon Sears electric water heater and I supplement that with a 3/4" brass pipe coil in my wood furnace, which also has a 30 gallon circulating tank as well and the water from that is piped into the hot water side of the electric water heater.
Thoughts?
Thanks