Water heater on the fritz... Tub damage?

[MTy]

Just finished renovating my master bathroom. Filled the 60 gallon acrylic soaker for the first time last night. After about half fill water turned yellow/brownish murky color. Also left a similar color film at the water line. Thankfully I was able to clean the film off.

I'm thinking it's iron or sediment from the heater. It's 50 gallon electric AO Smith, about 8 years old. Question is can it stain my tub if I continue to use it until I replace the heater?

I would be replacing it this coming weekend if dumb and dumber at Homers hadn't dropped my new heat pump water heater on it's side while loading it on to a box truck... It had a ramp, how hard can it be?

The heater is out of stock so don't know when I can order a new one. Maybe flushing the old heater could buy me more time?

 

[Terry]

Put a hose on your water heater and get it flushed out. That should help a lot in the meantime.

As far as dropping the new tank, they are kind of heavy. It's always nice when there is a second set of hands for that.

 

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[MTy]

Put a hose on your water heater and get it flushed out. That should help a lot in the meantime.

As far as dropping the new tank, they are kind of heavy. It's always nice when there is a second set of hands for that.

Thanks. I thought that might help.

There were two Homers associates, and they weren't small guys either, loading it and they had a pallet jack and the truck a ramp, should have been simple. I knew you shouldn't get advise at Homers but you'd think they could load a truck.