09/30/10, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,110
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Originally Posted by motdaugrnds
ok will do
Just did and all I found were "Kits" to flush water heaters that I could purchase. Surely there is a way to flush out a water heater without buying something.
I'm thinking of just draining it and permitting it to refill.
Just discovered another situation that is disturbing me (in my ignorance). "One" of our toilets has air trying to get out as the tank refills after it is flushed. The flapper is not leaking and no other toilet or faucet in the house is spitting air. This toilet is the one closest to the water pressure tank. Its tank does go ahead and refill; just lets out a lot of air as it does.
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for the water heater, try watching this:
For the toilet, if you had air getting in the lines on the suctions side (as Fishhead suggests) then I think you would have spitting in more than one fixture, not just a single toilet.
I would check to see if maybe there was debris in the supply line to that toilet. If you have a shutoff valve under the toilet, you can shut off the water, and poke around inside the tank without too much problem. Some toilets have the braided metal hose from the shutoff valve to the toilet, and it is easy to disconnect one end and run some water into a bucket to see if the spitting is in the supply line or somewhere in the toilet itself.
If you don't have a shutoff valve, you would have to shut off the water at the pressure tank. As long as it is filling, I wouldn't go to all that trouble.
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