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Worth Turning off the water heater while on vacation? runsrealfast 11-26-2007
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Posted by runsrealfast on November 26, 2007, 5:30 pm
Just took the kids to grandma and grandpa's for a week (california)
While we were gone its was cold, mid 20's and low 30's. I had turned
the heat down to 50 throughout the house. Now my water heater is in a
closet in the house (no basement) and I was thinking that i'll bet it
was running more often because I had lowered the heat. So I thought
well maybe next time i could just turn off the water heater then it
wouldn't run. I would just have to wait once we got back into town to
run hot water.
Oh and its a Electric heater 50 gal.
But is there danger in doing this? is it even worth it?
John
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