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re: Outdoor spigot question
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:16 pm to MiloDanglers
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:16 pm to MiloDanglers
Shut off the water supply to your water heater. Open your spigots. If they run well, the reason has nothing to do with your water heater; with the supply to the water heater closed, the hot water loops shouldn't really have much pressure to run more than a trickle or slowly drain the heater. Turn the water to your water heater back on before you forget.
Kudos on not calling it a spickit.
Kudos on not calling it a spickit.
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 6:20 pm
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Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:16 pm to MiloDanglers
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You mean they had the outdoor spigots "wired" to draw from the WATER HEATER ?
My in-laws have their ice maker water drawing from the hot water line from under the kitchen sink.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:18 pm to Martini
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We used the fat bats and would wrap duct tape on the ball. And once the bat split, duct tape on it so they would last.
Good times...
Op I had a buddy that had hot water in his carport to wash his vehicles. Check the temp of the water to determine if it’s actually plumbed up the hot water lines.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:18 pm to MiloDanglers
you're located on top of hot springs that are associated with an Indian burial ground, start a spa and amusement park, sell, and GTF away from there as soon as possible
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:20 pm to East Coast Band
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My in-laws have their ice maker water drawing from the hot water line from under the kitchen sink.
Hot ice waters down your sweet tea
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:24 pm to Spankum
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I would guess that your pipes run in the attic and water is getting hot up there during the day.
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I would do a test by turning off the valve to your water heater and then opening an outside spigot...if water doesn’t flow, call a plumber to straighten the shite out. If water keeps flowing, you are good.
This is your only answer you need.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:24 pm to Spankum
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I would guess that your pipes run in the attic and water is getting hot up there during the day.
How long should it take before I'm pulling cool water
Posted on 4/2/18 at 6:27 pm to MiloDanglers
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How long should it take before I'm pulling cool water
If the pipes running through the hot attic are the reason you're getting hot water, you may not really ever get cool water. In a hot attic, the pipe is effectively just a really long and skinny heat exchanger. The water can heat up in the line in the time it takes to go through the attic, especially if you have bare copper lines up there that'll transfer heat well. Insulating the line might help some if going through the attic is the reason you're getting warm water at the spigot. Also, insulating ANY water line going through an attic is a great idea. I'd heat trace them, too. A burst water line in the attic during the winter is an absolute catastrophe.
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:20 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Having it piped from the water heater isn’t unheard of. The builders at my old townhouse did that on accident. I guess that’s what you get hiring Mexican plumbers from Home Depot. I was washing the cars one day and noticed after a minute the water was really hot. They came out to look at it and sure enough they ran a T off of the water from the half bath sink just inside and it was on the hot line. It was going to mean tearing out some cabinets to fully replace it with cold so they just ran a second hose faucet off of the cold. Pretty swanky having hot or cold faucets outside.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:34 pm to MiloDanglers
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You mean they had the outdoor spigots "wired" to draw from the WATER HEATER ?
They actually do that in Alaska. I forget why. It always seemed so odd to have hot running water outside like that but that's Alaska for you.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:44 pm to TH03
My hot water heater is set to 140. If you wanna call 139 degree water cold, that's your prerogative
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:50 pm to MiloDanglers
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How long should it take before I'm pulling cool water
of course, this would vary by the size of the house, but a rough estimate would be the same amount of time that it takes to get hot water to the inside faucet that is farthest from the water heater.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:50 pm to East Coast Band
Even if you don't use hot water, it heats water to a certain temp and if it drops below a certain temp, it heats it again. Sounds like a hot water heater to me 
Posted on 4/2/18 at 7:58 pm to MiloDanglers
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spigot
You’re a speech bigot.
Triggered.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 8:20 pm to MiloDanglers
Does it stay hot indefinitely or does it just sort of stay lukewarm? If it is legitimately hot, someone plumbed your spigot like an idiot.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 8:32 pm to Redlos
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Cool water is in the water line from meter to house (closest to earthen soul) then the water gets hot cause it’s in the lines near the street and is hotter from heat transfer from road.
Yup!
Posted on 4/2/18 at 8:47 pm to TH03
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You heat your hot water?
If you have a tank heater, yes you do. Your thermostat doesn’t let the water cool much before turning on. Therefore you are heating hot water. HOT WATER HEATER.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 8:56 pm to MiloDanglers
A "handyman" probably installed outside outlets after the fact and spliced into the hot water line. I'm assuming your house is older and has a crawlspace?
If so, pretty simple to pinpoint, just run your kitchen faucet on hot, crawl underneath your house around the area your water heater is at, feel for the hot pipe, trace it to a spigot line.
ETA: I see it's only 12 years old. Do you have a crawlspace and live in the county, outside of city inspections?
If so, pretty simple to pinpoint, just run your kitchen faucet on hot, crawl underneath your house around the area your water heater is at, feel for the hot pipe, trace it to a spigot line.
ETA: I see it's only 12 years old. Do you have a crawlspace and live in the county, outside of city inspections?
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 9:00 pm to Hammertime
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My hot water heater is set to 140. If you wanna call 139 degree water cold, that's your prerogative
It's simple english, it's redundancy. Neither is technically wrong, but regardless of the water temperature, water is being heated. Hot is subjective.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 10:01 pm to genro
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You mean they had the outdoor spigots "wired" to draw from the WATER HEATER ?Right.
It can be done. Weird people have done it I'm sure
There should be at least one hot water spigot outside of every house. We have one, use it to wash the dog after he has played in the mud during cold weather, and if I need to clean things outside like coolers, or wash my truck in the winter it is wonderful.
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