{"id":3491,"date":"2015-06-14T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2016-11-03T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:09:20","slug":"no-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/no-hot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hot Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had any hot water mentioning since I ‘fixed’ the bypass last night. It was as if I had a tap open somewhere and the cold and hot were mixing. The obvious cause of the problem came to me as I went to bed, but I was not going to test my theory when I was ready to pass out from exhaustion.<\/p>\n

This morning, I reexamined the valve that I had cut out and my suspicion was pretty much confirmed, but I still wanted one more piece of evidence. I really wished that I had a water bypass installation diagram to confirm it before I took anything apart. Guess what I found way at the back of my water heater cabinet, located in such a way that I was only able to read it by shoving my camera down the side of the cabinet and blindly snapping pictures until I got a clear one? I really want to have Words with the guy who installed my water heater!<\/p>\n

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All right. You’ve had a moment to study the diagram and you can see my problem, right?<\/p>\n

The bypass valve I cut out had to be closed<\/em> for me to have hot water. The tube I installed is open<\/em>. So I need to remove the tube and find a way to cap the two ends. Copper caps are obviously not going to work here because of the grey conduit over top. So it looks like I need some sort of plastic or rubber cap with plumbing glue. I have the valve I cut off with some of the grey conduit sticking out, so I can bring that to all the different home stores until I find something suitable. But I’m really not due to go back to town any time soon, so it’s no hot water for me for a bit. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I did have the thought that I could somehow clamp the hose as a temporary fix, but it is very rigid, so I don’t think that’s going to work. I am going to pull out some clamps later and try this anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had any hot water mentioning since I ‘fixed’ the bypass last night. It was as if I had a tap open somewhere and the cold and hot were mixing. The obvious cause of the problem came to me as I went to bed, but I was not going to test my theory when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,5,807,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}