My basement flooded from the deluge in the north east and I have no hot water. Cold water is fine. I can't get water to flow into the hwh. Pic related. Is this a safety valve? How do I get the water flowing again?
I bought a new hwh anyway because the anode in this was non existent. Should I just get rid of this thing?
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Is there a second pipe sticking out the top of the tank?
https://www.wagsvalve.com/the-wags-valve/
Nevermind, the unit failed and this stopped the gas and water.
Neat, I see the red tab.
Cool.
smart stuff
>the unit failed
It didn't fail. It did exactly what it was meant to do, which was to detect water in the overflow pan and shut off the supply. It's a 1-time use flood sensor, once it's been activated once it has to be replaced because it uses a dissolvable material as the "sensor" in the mechanism.
>overflow pan
overflow ... pan ...?
The big aluminum pan that the water heater is sitting on in OP's pic. If the water heater starts leaking, it fills up the pan to the point where it trips the supply cutoff device. Without that pan, the shutoff device wouldn't work. Unless the entire room filled with water to that level, but that's the kind of thing people would usually like to avoid happening.
>entire room filled with water to that level
I have something called a "drain" in my basement floor.
No need to be pedantic, sometimes a water heater just isn't located where the pressure relief can go into a drain.
Congratulations. However some people's basements don't have a drain in the floor. And some people don't have basements at all. Do they just live without hot water because of that? Or do they simply sit their water heater in a pan with a leak detection shutoff?
>Do they just live without hot water because of that?
Yes.
Thats pretty neat. Never knew those existed.
That's pretty cool. Didn't know such a thing existed.
get it red hot with a torch and pop it with a hammer a couple times
The frick is "hwh"?
hoes with herpes
>hwh
hot water hedonism
>HWH
Hot water heater.
OP purchased one with cash withdrawn from an ATM machine.
Bet he had to use a PIN number to access his account.
heats hot water, for what purpose?