Need A Plumber....

[Bam]

My hot water tank is leaking ever so slowly from the temperature relief valve, and my regular plumber hasn't gotten back to me, so I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation.

 

Thanks

[John Bruh]

why do you need a plumber to do this, its super fucking easy and the valves are like $8

[Browning]

hold something under it and open the valve and shut it a couple of times. See if it stops

 

You can buy just the relief valve by the way.

[Bam]

Well I posted this before googling, I'm not opposed to doing it myself, just haven't looked into it yet.

 

Thanks for the link I'll check it out now, and I do have a bucket under it and have opened/closed it multiple times trying to seal it. It filled at 2 gallon bucket in about 12 hours.

[Browning]

yea, just head to lowes and pick one up, along with some teflon

[Bam]

Video was helpful, I wasn't aware the entire thing spun off, I did look at it last night for a nut or something I could back off but didn't find one, that's why.

 

But it doesn't tell me anything else I need to do/should do before changing it.

 

Do I need to shut the gas off/water heater off?

Do I need to just make sure the water is below that or do I have to drain the entire tank?

Do I have to shut off the water supply lines prior?

 

Just making sure, I don't want a bigger headache because I failed to do something simple.

 

Thanks again man, I'll run to lowes this afternoon hoping they are a standard size, otherwise I'll pull mine out first and take it with me.

 

+rep

[Skinner]

no leave gas and water on remove valve and you should be fine. :gabe:

[Browning]

When we done it we just shut the water off and drained the tank to just under the relief valve and went at it. Not sure if that's the correct way or not.

[Bam]

no leave gas and water on remove valve and you should be fine. :gabe:

 

Pretty Much...well they said turn off the cold water only, don't worry about the gas and like I said just make sure the water is below the valve...:dumb:

[Akula]

Basically, when this happens, you should take it as a good time to replace the tank. Once you open the tank to replace that valve it will rust very quickly. I use that leak as the guage to just get a new tank. Also simple to replace.

[Bam]

But it's 6 years old, is that really necessary? All the info I found online was that these valves fail regularly and are recommended to be inspected/possibly replaced every 3 years. I thought a hot water tank should last 10-15 years?

 

Appreciate your input, as I'm not too knowledgeable on the subject.

[Bam]

I did buy the valve today at lowes, $12.xx w/ tax, going to replace it here soon. I guess if the tank is due shortly it wasn't much wasted at least.

[Browning]

But it's 6 years old, is that really necessary? .

No. you should be fine