northman
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Hi All. I have a BW water heater that sometimes will be cold in the morning when I want to shower, and it has been much worse lately. Tank is about 7 years old, model #M-1-XR65T6BN. This is a 65 gallon tank with 65,000 BTU, when it is working well it should provide almost continuous hot water.
The tank has auxiliary side ports for space heating, which I use for hydronic floor heating with a Taco pump/exchanger unit. I was initially thinking maybe the floor heating was sucking up all the hot water, but the temps (here in Seattle area) are mild. It has done this very rarely in the past, much more often recently. Does this sound like a funky T-stat, and if so is that a reasonable thing to repair/replace? At 7 years I would hope the tank has a lot of life left, is it worth fixing up?
I did recently hook a hose up to the drain and purge out some of the sediment in the tank, don't know if that somehow contributed to the issue. I am considering draining it all the way down then intermittently turning the water inlet on and off to shake out as much crap as I can, not sure if that will accomplish anything. Thanks for the help.
The tank has auxiliary side ports for space heating, which I use for hydronic floor heating with a Taco pump/exchanger unit. I was initially thinking maybe the floor heating was sucking up all the hot water, but the temps (here in Seattle area) are mild. It has done this very rarely in the past, much more often recently. Does this sound like a funky T-stat, and if so is that a reasonable thing to repair/replace? At 7 years I would hope the tank has a lot of life left, is it worth fixing up?
I did recently hook a hose up to the drain and purge out some of the sediment in the tank, don't know if that somehow contributed to the issue. I am considering draining it all the way down then intermittently turning the water inlet on and off to shake out as much crap as I can, not sure if that will accomplish anything. Thanks for the help.