samanthatx
New Member
I need to know if this is a battle worth fighting.
First off, I live in an ground floor apartment. My unit appears to have it's own hot water heater tank. However, the temperature is abnormally hot. And the t&p valve trips about every 20 minutes and discharges a large amount of water to a line outdoors. Consistently every 20 minutes. The end of the this discharge pipe is at ground level. Almost underground actually, and is under a muddy pool of water everytime it disharges. I'm assuming the safety valve works and that this is probably a thermostat issue.
Were this my own house, I would get this fixed. But it's not. My complex's management and maintenance have been made repeatedly aware of this, looked at it several times, and have done NOTHING. While the water is almost uncomfortably hot, I'm not going to worry about it. But if it's a immediate safety issue, I'd like a more educated person to give me some good reasons to tell the complex to fix it already. If the only thing I have to worry about is having water that is too hot, though, I'm going to live and let live. (I put a meat thermometer at the faucet after 5 seconds running: It said almost 200 degrees F)
I have a passing interest in all things home repair if that explains why I'm posting.
Should I die on this hill?
First off, I live in an ground floor apartment. My unit appears to have it's own hot water heater tank. However, the temperature is abnormally hot. And the t&p valve trips about every 20 minutes and discharges a large amount of water to a line outdoors. Consistently every 20 minutes. The end of the this discharge pipe is at ground level. Almost underground actually, and is under a muddy pool of water everytime it disharges. I'm assuming the safety valve works and that this is probably a thermostat issue.
Were this my own house, I would get this fixed. But it's not. My complex's management and maintenance have been made repeatedly aware of this, looked at it several times, and have done NOTHING. While the water is almost uncomfortably hot, I'm not going to worry about it. But if it's a immediate safety issue, I'd like a more educated person to give me some good reasons to tell the complex to fix it already. If the only thing I have to worry about is having water that is too hot, though, I'm going to live and let live. (I put a meat thermometer at the faucet after 5 seconds running: It said almost 200 degrees F)
I have a passing interest in all things home repair if that explains why I'm posting.
Should I die on this hill?