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Well, Mr. Plumbgate, that's a pretty rude reply and against most forum etiquette. If you would bother to read the post, and understand with some clarity maybe it would make sense. It's not that I do not want to circulate hot water through my pipes. I do NOT want to circulate hot water through...

I replaced the anode rod last summer at my weekend home, where the water is kind of nasty. Full of iron, and extremely hard. The tank is original from 2007, so the rod was 11 years old. It was indeed challenging to find the head of the original rod, but it's there! Of course I needed the one...

Wow, stepped away for a day and look at all the replies! I'll address them one by one. BHP: If putting the water heater in a closet or boxing it in were easy or possible, it would have been done at the onset. It isn't easy--as there is no place for it in the home. Boxing it in where it's at is...

You are using the drain of the tank...one issue is everything for this system has to be located in the crawl space, not at the tank... But, if I read this correctly, you are using a pump OUT of the tank drain, through a "throttle" (I assume this to be a globe valve). Doesn't look much...

If you look at the drawing, the connection between hot and cold is with a pump and the flow is guided with check valves. The crawl space is insulated and is never even remotely cold, there is essentially zero chance of that freezing. When we leave the home for any length of time in the winter...

Frodo, you completely missed the point. The house is in use all the time, even in winter. "Winterizing" is something you do when you are away for a very extended period: you do it ONCE at the beginning of the winter, and UNDO it once at the end. Many people in this community do "close their...

Hi folks, new to the forum. Here's an interesting challenge for those so inclined. I'm embarking on a new project to create a freeze prevention system for my hot water system at my weekend home. The home is never closed for the winter, but due to the fact that there is no basement, the gas hot...