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Posted by Marilyn & Bob on February 6, 2007, 11:57 pm
Do you have a low-flow (2-2.5 gpm) shower head? If not, your shower could
be using 7 gallons of water per minute. In this weather with very cold
water coming in on the cold side, 90% of your shower water mix could be
coming from the water heater. If that's the case, a 40 gallon tank will get
cold with 5-6 minutes of use.
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Peace,
BobJ
> What area are you in? What is the temperature of your incoming water?
> Your dip tube on the inlet may have broken off. You may not have the temp
> up high enough. With incoming water at 42 degrees, it takes a lot more
> hot water than in the summer when the incoming is 80. If this happened
> all of a sudden, I'd be checking that dip tube.
>
> --
> Steve Barker
>
>> Hi,
>> This past week my daughter complained of having to take a cold
>> shower. I was busy, so about an hour I checked and got hot water. I
>> figured she was just on drugs.
>>
>> Several days went by and I didn't think anymore about it. She asked
>> if the hot water situation had been fixed, and said she's had to take
>> cold showers for several days. I immediately checked, and sure
>> enough, no hot water.
>>
>> The next day I took a shower and towards the end I had to hurry to
>> finish up before losing all hot water.
>>
>> Does this sound like a heating element has burned out or otherwise
>> ceased functioning? (its a four year old electric water heater)
>>
>> Its odd that I could barely get a single shower, since there should be
>> 40 gallons (I believe) of hot water, right? Even if one element was
>> burned out, it seems to me that I'd get 40 gallons of hot water, then
>> the turnaround time for the next batch of hot water would be longer.
>> Once reheated, I'd then have 40 gallons more of hot water.
>>
>> But, what do I know?
>>
>> Experts - what are your opinions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>
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