hello my name's Claude Taylor and welcome to my how to plumbing channel to
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video now this is a little different than what
I've normally doing on a how to channel this particular water heater here that
we're looking at right now I've actually fixed this about a year
ago there was an issue with the burner and wasn't cutting on and they couldn't
get the light so we did take care of that problem but now they called me back
out and this time the water softener went bad and when the water softener
started to go bad the little pellet stick Jim you might see in your water if
you do own a water softener and had one that started having issues the little
beads that's getting stuck in your faucet and stuff well anyway on this
particular water heater it's quite a bit of those beads got into the inside of it
and rather than you know flushing it because they did try to flush the tank
the homeowner just wanted to go ahead and replace it so we did go ahead and
replace it and what I did is brought it back so that I can
take it apart and see what's going on in the inside what it looks like and the
damage that the water softener done into the inside and what you see me doing
here is trying every and anything I can to cut into this metal tank
it wasn't easy I used all the little tools that I had I'm not really set up
for taking stuff like this apart but I was curious to see what's going on okay
that one put a little too much on that so gonna try something else but we are
going to get this tank open and we're gonna see what's going on in here this
was actually a really good water here is only like ten years old and the life
expectancy of a water heater is 14 to 15 years but this one was up in the attic
also a lot of the water heater manufactures they really actually don't
recommend water heaters in the Attic and for obvious reasons because in the
attics especially down here in the south it gets very hot and we know that when
it's hot and closed in that we have sufficient air and we all know that fire
will need some oxygen to breathe so with this issue down here in the South
without meaning the Attic it's probably not the best situation
but anyway we pulled this one out of the Attic and that's why I had to fix it the
first time because it was so having issues with the with the politics Imlay
prematurely going out and by the way if you are curious about the first job that
I did on this water heater there will be a copy of that video at the end of this
one here and if you're wondering I know you can't see but I do have a shield to
cover my face so the particles and the fire coming from the tank get into my
eyes so please don't take this video as a lesson on how to cut open the inside
cut open the hot water tank from the outside this is not something I normally
do this is out of curiosity for me and you
I'm sure there's Watchers out there that's watching this channel right now
they can tell me a better way and a quicker way that I could have done this
that would have been great but anyway that's my story and I'm sticking to it
what happened with the water softener just you know if you are a a person that
owns a water softener at your home the it started malfunctioning which means
the little beads and the resin they call it the resin part the resin tank that
holds the residence I would say that the strainer that keeps the little beads
from getting into the water and filter the water the strainer probably more
than most likely it's just cracked and the beads started coming through it's
possible that it could be fixed but that would only be done by someone that's
specialized in water purification systems most plumbers you don't want to
call them out and have them look at your water softener because they don't really
know what they're looking at I mean they think they've got an idea
how it works just like I do and if you call them out their important was likely
we get a plumber that likes to sell and want to upsell you're gonna be buying
your new water softener or he's gonna try to talk you into a new water
softener rather than trying to fix the one that you have so if this issue
occurs I would recommend that you call someone from Google's or the internet or
Yellow Pages that specialize in water purification systems
most people that do have these water softeners in a home a lot of them they
don't they might not keep the maintenance up on it because they're not
sure but there are purification companies out there that will contract
to check your water softener periodically six months to every six
months to a year that's something you might want to check out and if it's not
something that you really don't want to keep up with and if you like me you're
very busy there's so many things you need to keep up with I probably wouldn't
even recommend a water softener because right now it looks like it's going to be
more damaged then it's supposed to help a plumbing system
and keep you keep your water nice and clean and drinkable
and I know a lot of welders out there looking at this right now they will it
be nice to have a blowtorch I would love to help blow to it just cut this right
over real quick
and I am being as cautious as I can because the and having these nice heavy
gloves on will help keep me from getting cut because this is like razor some of
these corners are razor sharp and it's just easy very dangerous I was
recommending else doing this unless you are experienced at doing this right
there that little blue tube you see coming down that too is coming straight
from the hot water side I mean the cold water side where the cold water comes
into the tank and that tube goes all the way to the bottom if you know how a
water heater operate heat rises so when the cold water comes into the tank it
goes straight to the bottom some issues that I've ran into we're customers were
running out of hot water really quick is when that dip tube right there was
broken off so if it was broken off that meeting at the top when that cold water
came in it mixed immediately with the hot water that was on top already and
therefore their water hot water was being depleted really quick
and that little stringy looking thing Larry did you see right there this is
what it's supposed to look like that actually is the ennop tube and I'm gonna
leave a description below so you can go check out the ennop tube that ennop tube
is completely gone I mean it's really I'm trying to get a good view of it
inside here that's the ennop see what all that stuff's coming off of it I
don't know and some of it is the resident from the water softener that's
caked around it
Yeah right there you see really good now resin up on top it's mixed
and you can see all the resin from the water softener the little beads that
they were stuck down at the bottom of the tank I'll give you a better view of
this later in the video here
and the tube you see coming inside a little tube that's from the gas control
valve that's the thermostat it reads the temperature of the tank it knows when so
when the tank knows when to kick on and off
and exceed the dip tube goes straight down the blue one and here we have the
gas control valve so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pull this out so you can
see the resin that's built up kind of kicked around the stem up at the Wynn in
I'm getting a large pair of channellock pliers
another easy way to do this is have a small piece of half-inch pipe probably
about 12 inches long and screw it into the part where the pipe goes in and just
use your leverage and twist it off of there and then rest the rest you can do
with your hand and I'm trying to operate the camera and do this at the same time
so please bear with me so I'm trying to give you a view of the inside as I
pulled the stem of the and remove the
I probably should have made this hole a little bigger huh
anyway this gives you a little view again like I said I've got a little
better angle later in the video you'll see
you can see the residents all kicked up and build up on here the initial flush
that there did evidently it wasn't enough to flush enough of this away
okay as promised here's a better view of the little beads and resin from the
water softener caked at the bottom and built up on the side and this right here
is D of course the T&P valve temperature pressure relief valve if this water
heater gets too hot the water is too hot it'll shoot water out of here and blow
off the steam or if there's too much pressure in the tank okay I do apologize
for the vertical challenge here but it seemed like the light from my phone was
I was able to actually access a little better so I pull my phone out and kind
of videotape the inside of the water tank and then again there's the tip
relief valve
as promised this is the water here that I fixed over a year ago this is what
happened it this is the same water heater I took apart at the beginning of
the video from the water heats water softener issues I hope you find it
helpful and you gonna get started on this water heater this is not a customer
this is a friend actually a family member the issue they were having the
water heater would not light and of course I've done hundreds of these so
when they told me I knew exactly what it was he ordered the part got the part in
and now I am here to install the part for him the brand of water heater this
is this is a state water heater that's the name brand of this water heater and
I do have two other videos out here one covering a rain gas water heater same
problem and another covering the Bradford white water heater same issue
almost the same operating system except for a few changes on the safety device
and the safety device that I'll show you on this one and it's much different than
the Bradford white our aim they have actually have a small little capacitor
on the thermal coupling that actually goes bad when the water heater is either
overheated or smothered with a lack of oxygen
so once we get this apart and we start working and I'll show you that part and
right now I know I'm using a crescent wrench to take these bolts off I do have
a nut driver to fits that just right now I'm too lazy to run down to the truck
and get it but I will go get it because I'm gonna have to go back down anyway we
just keep turning out the way and you can see me struggle with this a little
bit the area in this attic that I'm working in is very tight I'm only like
three feet from the the opening if I'm not careful I can fall right down the
ladder and hurt myself so I have to work real careful right here in this spot
right now it's a little early so it's kind of not too hot but I can feel the
temperature starting to rise and that's the bracket that was holding it in place
you can see the gas is off long as the handle is facing the opposite way of the
pipe it's off and we're going to remove the gas flex line
and we're going to cut the water to the hot-water tank off see it's so tight up
in here I can I can't really even stand up so I have to do my best to get the
camera in there to get a picture of the cutoff valve I won't be able to show you
myself cutting it off but I'll show you after it's cut off
okay right there it's off long as the handles facing the Atmos a opposite way
of the pipe it's off and with that we're going to relieve the pressure from the
tank now we relieve the pressure and there's no air in the tank so that when
we go to remove the gas control valve we don't have to worry about water shooting
out we will get a small amount because the tank is full but we're not gonna get
a heavy rush of water it'll just kind of goop out of here so that'll give us
enough time to remove this and put the other one in place but if you feel safer
draining the whole tank to me by all means go for it
I've been doing this quite a few times like I said hundreds of times so I'm
pretty familiar with it and check it real close myself and I'm using the
sponge I'm putting it down here in the combustion area opening because like I
said a little water will come out and I don't want any going into the air cup
the combustion chamber are on the bottom of the tank so we're trying to do this
job as neat as I can without getting water everywhere
and this is the new gas control valve you can see it comes with teflon tape
already on it so we don't have to just line it up or
pipe dope it we're good and now that I've loosened the gas control valve with
the the gas pipe I used it as a tool to remove it to loosen it now I can loosen
it with my hands gonna take it right off and we're going to put the new one in
right away you'll see a small amount of water right there that's about it screw
it in and we're good
yeah now the gas pipe that we took off the old one we're gonna put it on this
one and we're gonna use it as our tool as our wrench to put this back on here
and tighten it back down
before I do that I'm going I did put some true-blue that's what the pipe dope
is called that I use true blue it's really good and strong and seals the
pipe nicely
you can see how I used the leverage of the gas piping to twist the valve in
place and tighten it down and that that was me
well you see right here I'm going to use my channel lock pliers to tighten the
Flex gas flex line down but what you don't see I was able to show you is I
did use back up another wrench to hold it steady to really get it tightened and
sealed again like I said I'm working in such a tight area if there's anything on
this video that I might have missed it wasn't intentionally and I apologized
and if you have any questions or comments leave them below its
matter-of-fact what do you think of water heaters in
the Attic good idea bad idea here
you can see where it's cracked right there this is part of the thermal
coupling which is different than any other water heater that I know of other
than State and once that's cracked we know that it's damaged and here's the
new one sealed nicely and tight again this is
the thermal coupling a lot of you out there that are familiar with thermal
coupling you know that this don't exist on them only on state water heater that
is what they use as their safety device to shut the water heater down in case
any uh any problems arrive and if you see the other videos dream and the
Bradford white you'll see that they have their own type of safety device one is
those are not connected to the thermal coupling
you probably notice that I'm starting to breathe a little heavier it's the day is
coming on it's starting to get a little warmer out and actually I haven't been
up here that long it's just if the temperatures starting to rise rather
quickly here
now lookie and I've done this you know quite a few times hundreds of times so I
do remember where a lot of the parts go but if you're hesitant and not sure of
once you before you take anything apart she's not you're not gonna remember
where it went all I do when I get to the point like that as I just I take a
picture of it and when I start putting it back together if I get lost I'll just
look at the picture and it shows me where I'm at so that's just a little
little advice thanks to technology we can use our phones to do that this this
main burner right here that I'm holding right there in the hand if you look at
it it's no more different than the burners you have on a cook stove where
you place a pot and you're cooking things and basically that is what this
is this is a burner and the water heater is a large pot that sits on top of it
and once it gets to a certain temperature depending on where you set
it it cuts off automatically and once the pressure of the water drops of
course this kicks right back on
so those of you that hear that popping sound in your water heaters when it goes
to kick back on it's nothing more than a bunch of calcium on the bottom of the
tank itself the large pot let's call it a large pot it's just like putting
overcooked rice on your stove and you put water in there and it starts to heat
up you start hearing a popping same difference and they do recommend that
you flush your water heater once a year me personally I think if you if you
don't do it once a year you're asking for trouble because if you start doing
it three four years down the line and you cut it on you may have issues with
the calcium buildup so as soon as you get the water heater you want to start
that yearly process
the little brass piece you see right there that's called an oarfish you have
to have that on there if you this one is made for a natural gas if you ever need
to convert your water heater to propane you can change that orphis out and that
will allow you to change to different type of gas
you can really see it's getting hot up here I'm actually looking at the as I'm
editing this I'm looking at the sweat coming off of me
also thankless water heaters leave a comment below what do you think
do you like tankless water heaters or the conventional one like we're working
on right here right now the pros and cons
now the lead of a little red one right there where my thumb is that little red
rubber piece right there that's called a climate and we're gonna it's kind of
hard squeezing that grommet into place but once it's in place it's good because
it keeps the combustor area nice and sealed tight so that this is actually
designed to keep gases from flowing out the bottom of the tank
if you remember the old water heaters they didn't you can get access easily
right to the bottom but now they've they've sealed the bottom and you can't
get access unless you do what I'm doing here take it all out okay now we got
that grommet in place and usually when they sent it in the box the new parts
the grommet is in the spot where it needs to be so don't mess around trying
to adjust it
and that's just another rubber piece similarly to the grommet again just to
keep the bottom sealed and again it's really hard for me to try to bend over
and get a bird's-eye view of this because there's no room there's no room
for me to actually I can but it's very uncomfortable
what you can see now I'm trying to get in a position where I can get a better a
better angle and make it a little easier to work with getting this in here I'm
trying to get it up over the bracket that's in there but I can't actually I
like I said I can't see it
and you definitely want to get it in the bracket so it could rest properly right
up under the tank like it should don't just try to put it in there any
other kind of way make sure it's in the bracket that it belongs in and okay this
time I have my I have my nut driver with me actually this is like a eight way
screwdriver it has so many different parts to it the flathead Phillip head
5/16 nut driver another nut driver and then actually even have some star wrench
parts on it so it's a really good screwdriver
and that's you just heard that's me turning the water back on to the tank
and I usually I turn the water on before I finish just in case there's any
issues while I'm working on the tank I'll be able to address it the middle
one right there where you see my hand that is the main burner that's where all
the gas goes to the main burner
and this one here
and when right there that I'm getting ready to hook up that goes to the pallet
that's the gas to the pallet that keeps it lit and all of these two things you
want to be careful as you bend it so that you don't kink it and cut off any
gas supply to the unit so you just kind of bend it slowly the same with the
thermal coupling and the thermal coupling is the one that we're gonna put
them on next
and here's the thermal coupling and the purpose of the thermal coupling it's um
it's actually a current that runs to the thermal coupling electrical current it
runs through there once the pilot is lit the pallet burns up against the thermal
coupling and that causes the thermal coupling to create a small current of
electricity that operates the gas control valve itself and that's the
purpose of the thermal coupling so when you do go to light a water heater you
always hold the you hold the gasp lie down for at least a minute or so it
allows the thermal coupling to generate some electrical current to control the
gas valve and once that current gets to go in it's automatically on its own and
this is another thing that could prevent your water heater from being lit if you
have a thermal coupling that is not tightly connected up and top into the
crow valve there's no one so what I'm gonna do is oh and I'm gonna take the
old igniter because the new assembly didn't come with a nighter switch
okay the new control valve is a little different but that's not a problem we're
just gonna squeeze it the igniter switch I'm gonna squeeze the bracket sort of
get a little snug in place up here and now we're going to connect the igniter
wire that sparks the light into the chambers of the water heater
and again this is another thing that you would like to check if you can't light
your water heater if there's not a connection here you're not gonna get the
water heater to light so just pull back this little rubber piece that I'm
pulling over and check the connection
but it's very rare that that happens but it does
okay the gas is back on and what i'm doing here is holding the gas knob down
allowing a little gas to get in the chamber and now I just click the igniter
five or six times real fast and that should get it lit normally in this case
I would look through the glass to see if it's lit but again there's no room for
me to hold this and look down in there so we're just gonna hold it for a minute
and hope that it's lit and again while we hold it the reason we hold it in
place for a minute hold it down is so that the pilot light can burn against
the thermal coupling and generate enough current to keep it going on its own okay
good it's lit now the main burners on and there sit
I'm gonna take this camera and I'm gonna kind of pan the little area that I was
working in they give you an idea how tight the space was you can see it right
there it's probably no more than three feet to the edge so I can easily fell it
over if I wasn't careful and then right down here and that wouldn't have been
good
and you can see how when I stood up that flexible duck was right there at my head
and I couldn't get hardly get into that to cut water heater off again my name's
Clark Taylor thanks for watching I hope you
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