Natural Gas Pressure

[nobody]

Personally I would just replace the old water heater myself since it's already way out lived it's normal life and is most likely full of lime and calcium. Having said that it is very easy to check the manifold pressure on a water heater at the provided plugged pressure port. In fact you can make a water column gauge with a piece of 1/4" plastic tube marked in one inch increments from the bottom and a tall bottle of water. Like I said, I wouldn't even bother on a WH that old.. Most all newer residential water heaters do not have a PRV but are designed to operate off of normal house gas pressure.

By the way, Stretch and Turtle both know what they are talking about, the other troll just likes to type the "F" word and cause trouble all the time.

I've been do> I posted a few days ago about my high gas bills and I still haven't had

[Rudy]

Not here in BC. Our electric is .0605 cents Kwh CDN or about .051 cents Kwh USD. BC has the 3rd lowest electric rates in North America (the lowest 2 are other Cdn provinces) I'll admit that this isn't the case in the USA.

Here is a "calculator" that shows what the annual HW cost here is:

Gas: $ 213 while electric is $ 189 Electric turns out to be $ 24 or 11.25% cheaper

IIRC, Gas (which BC has a lot of also) has gone up something like 300% or more in the last 10 years and they're getting a 15% increase this Winter.

Electric went from around 4 cents to 6 cents in the same time

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[Rudy]

Thats here in BC. I have seen the +70% figure relating to NGas for somewhere in the Midwest this Winter, on the news.

[MC]

Gas regulators internal diaphram can be damaged easier than you think. I have seen a few go bad, Not common but can happen.

Most of the time when they go bad is due to rupture when the gas service has been off and then the valve on the incoming line is turned on too quickly, should always open slowly to pervent rupture.