How to Flush a Water Heater Tank – by Master Plumber Bryan Graham
Call 281-302-6710 for an appointment. In this video, Master Plumber Bryan Graham describes how to flush a water heater tank. If you need help or you want us to do this maintenance for you, please call us and we’d be happy to help you. Graham Plumbing Services is rated A+ by the Houston Better Business Bureau.
This is a summary of Bryan’s video:
So, a lot of people call us about flushing the water heater out every year. The right way to flush a water heater is to hook up a water hose to the valve on the bottom of the water heater. Leave your water on. Leave the cold water and hot water connected. Don’t disconnect anything. You can leave the gas on if you want or you can cut it off, and re-light it afterwards.
Just open the valve at the bottom, let all the trash, and debris, and everything blow out of the bottom of the tank, while you still have the pressure on to the water heater. You don’t actually have to drain the water heater all the way down to empty. Some people wanna do that, and that’s fine, I guess that works too.
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If you do want to drain the water heater, then you need to be sure that you have the gas turned off, you have the electrical turned off, because if you drain it down, and you have the power on too, you’ll blow the element, or you can blow the control valve on the gas heater.
Graham Plumbing Services is a full-service plumbing company located in Sugar Land and serving customers all around the Houston area, including Katy, Missouri City, Stafford, and Richmond/Rosenberg. Call us at 281-302-6710 for an appointment or send us an email through our contact form.
We offer written, guaranteed estimates for our work. Our plumbers are trained as service plumbers, which means they can usually fix what’s broken and will recommend doing that if fixing is less expensive than replacing something. Some other plumbers aren’t interested in fixing, but they’ll work hard at selling you something new even if it’s not the best option for you.