19 Creative Water Heater Lines Reversed


Water heater lines reversed. Would reverse plumbing of the supply lines cause a low temperature reading. Are we missing something here. This is the simpler and seemingly more intuitive way of piping water heaters and boilers but in practice.

Just to complicate the picture water heater manufacture dates are 1993 1994 and this home is a log home in the mountains that was de winterized a few days ago but water heaters should have been in operation for at least 3 days. When using an onoff button on a shower head or an outside wash down box al hot and cold water lines are reversed on back of heaterif the flow meter rotor is not ro. The cold water will be entering at the top of the heater and diluting the hot water.

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Creative Water Heater Lines Reversed

For a single water heater or boiler it would not apply. The hot supply will be taken from the bottom of the tank where the water is cooler. Precisiontemp rv 500 close the hot water tap and the heater will shut off.

Long story short it looks like the people who installed our water heater put the water lines in backwards. A 30 gal heater is a size small. When you have multiple heaters serving the same area or pressure zone of a building the reverse return concept comes into play.

The opposite of lifo is fifo first in first out. Reverse plumbing a water heater will definitely affect the amount of hot water that you get from the heater. The cold water that supplies the tank is going into the side marked with an h ontop of the tank and the hot water is comming out of the side marked with c ontop of the tank.

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Water heater lines reversed. The only way to tell is to look at the heater and see which is connected at which label. However am trying to determine whether or not the plumber who installed the water heater simply mixed up the lines when attaching to the water heater tank if the lines are reversed now then the plumber mixed up the lines. The cold water that supplies the tank is going into the side marked with an h ontop of the tank and the hot water is comming out of the side marked with c ontop of the tank..

Reverse plumbing a water heater will definitely affect the amount of hot water that you get from the heater. The opposite of lifo is fifo first in first out. When you have multiple heaters serving the same area or pressure zone of a building the reverse return concept comes into play. Water heater lines reversed.

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