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Water Heater Sitting Unused During Renovations
Posted on 9/23/20 at 8:20 am
Posted on 9/23/20 at 8:20 am
I’ve been renovating my house, the water heater was disconnected and moved to allow Reno work. It has basically been sitting unused for about 6 months. Should we be concerned with stagnation or mold in the water heater since it has been sitting still?
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Posted on 9/23/20 at 8:32 am to Emteein
Just flush it out. There is a drain at the bottom that you can hook up a hose to. Turn off the water inlet, hook the hose up, open that valve then open the inlet. Let the water run a god 15 mins.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 8:51 am to fishfighter
Thanks definitely will do that.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 9:14 am to Emteein
Find it pretty wild that you wouldn't drain it prior to moving it to do your reno work
Posted on 9/23/20 at 9:17 am to HBomb
Yeah, seems like that would have been a little heavy 
Posted on 9/23/20 at 10:10 am to HBomb
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Find it pretty wild that you wouldn't drain it prior to moving it to do your reno work
It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, I didn’t think I was going to have to move it. Then the Demo guy said it had to move. So, I just closed the water supply, disconnected the water connections, the pop off drain, closed the gas valve, disconnected the gas, and then slid it to the center of the room. Literally took 5 minutes, and not a lot of effort to move it.
Kind of forgot about if, then it just occurred to me this morning because we are getting close to finishing up.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 4:09 pm to Emteein
If it is outside I would just do a good flush on it with a garden hose before I put it back. Hopefully you have had the water completely drained out of it for that long
Posted on 9/23/20 at 6:37 pm to Emteein
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Literally took 5 minutes, and not a lot of effort to move it.
if that is the case then he drained it before telling you because even a 30 gallon water heater is heavy as shite when full
thats 30 gallons x 8 lbs per gallon of water (30x8=240) plus whatever the water heater itself weights, do the math and thats 300 lbs of dead weight you had to move. if he drained it then its only gonna be 60-90 lbs depending how much water stays in it
This post was edited on 9/23/20 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 9/24/20 at 11:19 am to Emteein
Water heaters are cheap enough. Just price a new one into your renovation cost.
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