Water Heater again!

Hi, For now light a candle and stick it in the burner chamber, does it stay lit? If so, gas sup[ply is OK? Venting or gas supply, what else could be the trouble? How is the venting done? Tied into furnace stack or all by itself? Often we tend to over look most simple basic things experts do that all the time too wasting time. What kinda chimney?

Hi, Most experienced techs often over look simplest basic things. Some times green horns are better at trouble-shooting. Rule of thumb, don't leave out any even slightest possibility.

Unless you left the vehicle idle, or it sprung a leak, or someone used a "mexican credit card", or your brakes started to drag, or you pulled a heavy load or had heand - all of which will cause the vehicle to run out of gas sooner than the odo would indicate.

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snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Does Moe seem like the kind of guy who would do or not notice any of those things? He doesn't seem like that to me. So your comment is simply contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. The sure sign of an asshole.

My house is nearly 120 years old and the basement is pretty dusty and I've never had any such problem.

I've been informed that they still do make water heaters with pilot lights, so I know the OP is not trolling.

I did just recall however that I had a gas appliance (can't recall if it was a drier or a water heater) with a pilot light adjustment.

If it was set too low it would alway go out...I'd check that .

Pardon me, Zaky Waky, but I think you are the one acting like an asshole. Clare gets _far_ more respect than you do. phil k.

Hi, It sure does. The adj. screw is in the gas vlve body. Little cap covers the hole which has adj. screw pilot flame. My camping trailer WH had it.

This water heater stuff looks pretty straightforward

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The contractor must be pretty inexperienced

They are working on it now. There is a bad part. Something to do with letting the gas in. Also the venting may not be right. They were given the International venting code but the guy wants to check the Washington Code before doing anything because changing the venting will be expensive. There is no Thermocouple on this kind. It's newer. It has a Thermo...something else. Can't remember the name but it's fine.

They may have to redo the venting. We'll see.

Plumber got it to light right away but he had difficulty moving the button. I said that happens. It's either easy to move or it's sticky. There are no other gas appliances. He does think the venting may be wrong for this kind of water heater but may have been fine for the old one.

By itself. Don't know what kind of chimney. But they did the flame test before and said that it wasn't drafting right.

Nope.

Because the garage is so small, the venting goes at an odd angle. It's complicated to explain but basically it needs to have a good 6 feet going straight up and this doesn't.

The gas pressure actually checked out fine.

I have two of them now. They seem to be checking everything.

The plumbers are checking it now. It's just frustrating that I have already paid enough out in repairs to at least equal the cost of the original tank and installation.