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- Originally Posted By olds442tyguy: Got a new hot water heater and now my hot water (not the unit itself) has this sweet burning plastic smell. No leaks and everything is working fine, but the steam from the water literally makes me cough like burning plastic does.
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- With a new water heater and water softener your home's water will have the feel and temperature you want all the time. When shopping for your water heater, you'll want to check your state's requirements. Sears carries a number of gas water heaters that are compliant with California state laws.
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Sulfur smell likely comes from water heater, is fixable This can be very frustrating and the odor, similar to a rotten egg, can be offensive. The good news is there are a couple things that you can do to help minimize this effect, with certain precautions. The smell can originate from hydrogen sulfide gas in softened water and can be from a number of sources. However, due to the smell being from the hot water, it is likely in your hot water heater. The sulfur smell in hot water heaters typically originates because of two reasons:
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New LG 3431 - Hot Plasticky Smell from Dryer If you wash a load of clothes in this machine and then dry it in a conventional dryer, there is no smell. Indeed, the 1200w dryer heater gets the inside of this thing hotter than a $2 pistol -- certainly hotter than any conventional dryer I've used.
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- Rotten egg smell is from sulfur gas. It may be from just the hot water side which means chemicals in the water are reacting to the anode rod in the water heater. The anode rod prevent acidic water from attacking the tank and sacrifices itself to the acid water. In the process it may release sulfur gas.
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Propane Basics What To Do If You Think You Smell Propane. How to recognize the smell of propane. Propane has a strong, unpleasant smell like rotten eggs, a skunk’s spray, or a dead animal. Propane manufacturers add the smell deliberately to help alert customers to propane leaks, which can create a safety hazard.
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- How to Make Your Water Heater Last Water heaters have a few main components –the thermostat and the water tank. All water heaters will also have an inlet pipe for cold water, and outlet pipe for hot water. Besides, a gas water heater will have a pilot light and a temperature and pressure valve. An electrical water heater will have a heating element while a gas water heater will have a burner. To ensure that your water heater lasts longer you need to protect all of these parts.
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- If bacteria has built up inside the hot water cylinder, the water itself may give off a strong sulfur taste and odor. However, a strong sulfur taste and odor could also indicate the presence of a more serious bacterial contamination of your drinking water as a result of a leaking septic tank or sewage spill.
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Sizing a New Water Heater In that case, you'll need a temperature rise of 90ºF (50ºC). Most demand water heaters are rated for a variety of inlet temperatures. Typically, a 70ºF (39ºC) water temperature rise is possible at a flow rate of 5 gallons per minute through gas-fired demand water heaters and 2 gallons per minute through electric ones.or most uses, you'll want your water heated to 120ºF (49ºC). In this example, you'd need a demand water heater that produces a temperature rise of 70ºF (39ºC) for most uses.
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- First, ensure that both the cold and hot water have the smell and that the smell is coming out of one or several faucets, but not all. Fill a glass with water from the sink that has the smell, then step away from the sink and swirl the water around inside the glass few times.
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- —Cindy T., Ann Arbor. Our house has a well and we have a bad sulfur smell only when the hot water is on. My hot water heater is only three years old. I have flushed the water tank and a couple weeks later the smell comes back.
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How Often Should One Change the Heating Elements in a Water Heater? Only electric hot water heaters use heating elements to warm the water inside the tank and provide hot water to the home. Gas-fired models have a burner at the base of the heater that warms water inside the tank. Heating elements typically last for several years, and hot water tanks outlast the elements. You need not replace heating elements periodically, only when symptoms arise.
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- Install two new hot water heaters. The AO Smith GCG50400 water heaters have a baffle on the bottom of the tank that prevents dust from clogging up the intake. A thermal expansion tank was also required by code for this installation.
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- Then move to another faucet and run the cold water. If the cold water has an odor, then the source is in the cold water. If the hot water alone has odor, then the odor is occurring primarily in the water heater. City water is usually chlorinated, which kills odor causing bacteria.
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- One caveat: if you have smelly water at one sink, but not all of them, dump chlorine bleach down the basin overflow, instead of into the water heater. Sometimes bacteria can build up in there, too. And apropos to that: make sure it's really the hot water that smells. There are places where there is so much sulfur in the water that hot AND cold water smell. Applying these procedures won't solve that. But if the water smells like rotten eggs, and you can smell it at every hot fixture, then these solutions will work.
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Do you have Smelly Well Water ? Do you want to get rid of that smell? By far the most common cause of smelly water is bacteria that is in some water and it's this bacteria that reacts with other minerals in your water as well as the aluminum anodes in your water heater that creates the hydrogen sulfide gas, making the rotten egg and sewer odor that you smell in your water.ith these factors the hydrogen and sulfur combine to form the hydrogen sulfide gas that gives off the rotten egg, smelly, odor to the water. A water heater has at least one anode rod for corrosion protection.
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Water Heater Problem: Discolored or Smelly Water Brown, yellow, or red water could indicate rust in your water; the rust could be coming from the pipes in your house, from the pipes coming into your house or the water heater. The most common solution for this type of problem is to install a water softener or water filtration system in your home.
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- In homes that have natural gas you will likely have a gas hot water tank. Gas water heaters heat the water by burning natural or LP gas. Burner issues, pilot light issues and the famous thermocouple are among the things you might be faced with. Electric hot water heaters use electricity to heat the water.
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Odor in Water Symptoms of Odor in Water: Generally, for those with municipal water, bad taste or odor will not have dangerous health affects. Well-owners, however, could have bad smelling water along with other dangerous contaminants. Because there can be different causes, there may also be different smells.
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Bad Tasting, Smelly Drinking Water There are many things that can give drinking water bad taste and smelly odors. It could be chemicals used to treat your drinking water, environmental contaminants or even concentrations of metal that have been cast off in old plumbing pipes. Metallic tastes and smells from mercury, lead, arsenic and iron seeping into the water supply.
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Test Your Water If you smell a “rotten-egg” odor, this is hydrogen sulfide gas. If water smells like oil or asphalt this can be from manganese. If water smells like cucumber or sewage this is usually a result of iron and/ or sulfur bacteria. Run the water hot water from each tap and notice if there is an odor in the hot water, that is not in the cold water.
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Why is my new water heater making a clicking noise? You probably have sediment buildup in the bottom of the hot water heater. Pockets of water get trapped in the sediment/scale at the bottom of the hot water heater, turn to steam when it heats up, then explode causing the noises you are hearing.
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- Perfect for replacement of an existing water heater Perfect for replacement of an existing water heater the efficient Rheem Performance 50 Gal. Natural Gas Ultra Low NOx Water Heater does not require an electrical outlet and features push-button ignition for match-free start up.
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- i have a couple propane heaters,they do smell when you first fire them.they burn off some oil and dirt ,then no problem. i think what may be happening is the primer your using [i'm guessing a oil base] is puttting off some fumes and then is going through the heater and burning ,which is making the smell.
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How to Prevent Rust in Your Water Heater Turn the water and power to the water heater back on. Most factory-installed anodes are magnesium, which can produce a sulfite-reducing bacteria that makes your water smell like rotten eggs. Using a replacement anode made of zinc or aluminum will prevent this problem.Peeeww! 1  Add a Comment. 2  Print. 3  Share.urn the water and power to the water heater back on. Most factory-installed anodes are magnesium, which can produce a sulfite-reducing bacteria that makes your water smell like rotten eggs. Using a replacement anode made of zinc or aluminum will prevent this problem. Peeeww!
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How to Replace the Anode Rod in your Hot Water Heater. How to replace the anode rod in your hot water heater.Do you have stinky water. Chance are if you replace these rods your water will smell much better. What a difference it made in my house. http://www.askmediy.com.