My dad and I were working on the kitchen faucet this morning and we cut the hot water supply underneath the kitchen sink and the cold water running into the water heater. When we opened both water supplies back up, we weren't getting anymore hot water throughout the entire house. We are puzzled as to why this is. Any suggestions?
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there is too little in your posting to make a determination.
why would you cut the line going to the water heater? -
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We were trying to determine what line a leak was coming from.
As of this morning, we had a moderate amount of hot water pressure which quickly got weak.Comment
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first of all you need to supply the water heater with incoming water, if its supposed function as a heater. solder the inlet of cold water back to the cold water inlet. what probably happened, is, when you cut the cold water supply, the level in the tank dropped considerably, lowering the level to where the upper element was exposed, burning out the element [ reason for your less than normal hot water.
the way a hot water functions, there's a plastic dip tube that goes to the bottom of the tank, so that the bottom element comes on first. when that's satisfied, the electric switches to the upper element. if there's not water there, the element will burn up. heat rises to the highest point. if you only cut off the supply to the kitchen faucet, the rest of the house's hot water shouldn't been compromised. don't you have valves in all your feeds to sinks?Comment
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