For Luka: am heating the cold water, making it hot.
For others. 40 gal. Ngas WH seems mfg. around 92, dont know when installed. Does not have enough hot stuff to even fill a tub up 3/4. It does fire. Ideas? Thanks.
For Luka: am heating the cold water, making it hot.
For others. 40 gal. Ngas WH seems mfg. around 92, dont know when installed. Does not have enough hot stuff to even fill a tub up 3/4. It does fire. Ideas? Thanks.
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Check the "Dip Tube". It may be eaten awayand is too short (corrosion effect) causing the incoming cold water to mix with the stored hot.
A dip tube when new, will extend to the lowest part of the tank, thus allowing any incoming cold water to force the stored hot water out first.
One of the problems people have often is they put in a huge whirlpool tub and wonder why the water isn't hot. Not that this is your problem. A 40 g is small. How much do you use the hot water, i.e. are there 3 teenage girls taking long showers, etc. If you are using a lot of hot water, when you try to fill up the tub you are asking for hot water from a 40g tank that may have just had 20g taken out for a shower, etc. The best fix is to replace the 40 withan 80, or go up to a 120 if you have a big whirlpool. The 40 is already 10 years old, so you have gotten your money out of that. The last 120 I did with my plumber was a little more than $1000 his cost from a supply house.
No whirlpool, regular bath tub. Talking abt. filling tub when WH is fresh....fully heated. This is a gas fired heater. No room in utility closet for much larger than 40. Occupants: 2 adults, 3 kids, 1 handicapped who relies on others.
Especially that age, the dip tube is likely the problem. A lot of units made in the 90s had plastic dip tubes where the plastic disintegrated in chlorinated water or some such.
There was a lawsuit against the company that made the diptubes for probably all the HWT manufacturers during the 90's. Believe it or not there was even a website, diptube.com or something like that. Point is they would replace your diptube or compensate you somehow for your suffering.
That expired a couple of years ago.
So did most of the water heaters.
May be a buildup of sediment in the bottom of the tank preventing proper heating. Try flushing the tank.