tecwerks
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Hi everyone, Have a weird problem where I get a intermittent (~3-4 months) water dump from my water heater PRV. Usually it is a pint to quart of water. In between not even a drip. I have had 2 different plumbers to try and resolve the problem. This is a 2 year old water heater in a new house. To make matters worse the pipe from the PRV is stubbed out and dumps directly on to my garage floor. Past homes this line was always stubbed to the outside . The first gentleman came and did water pressure test and said the water pressure was too high. It was 65 PSI and he lowered it to 55PSI after spending an hour hour onsite. He said I have a 50/50 chance that its fixed. Not impressed as the even 65PSI is I believe within limits. I also asked that the PRV drain pipe be plumbed through the garage wall to the outside. His suggestion was to extend the pipe down the side of the inside garage wall and under the garage door, really? Bye.
So I placed a large bowl at the exit of the PRV drain pipe. A couple months after the bowl was full of water. I emptied it and decided to call another plumber and if he could not determine what's wrong just extend the PRV drain pipe to the outside. When he showed up I explained the problem and he went thru the steps of checking all the basics. Water pressure 55PSI, Hot water temp 133F, Expansion tank OK. Since the water dump via the PRV is so intermittent I stated that I can live with that and I would like the PRV drain plumbed to the outside through the adjacent garage wall. He did everything he could to sway me to not extend the PRV drain and suggested I lower the hot water temp to 120F as that could be the problem. When I questioned him he said since I seem to know everything he's done and left.
Am I missing something here? I have owned houses all my life and have had way higher water pressure of 55PSI and probably at least the 133F water temps, maybe higher and have never had problems. Perhaps I should call another plumber and just say I want my PRV drain line plumbed to the outside and NOT even mention the intermittent leak problem.
Any questions, suggestions, comments would be appreciated or should I try door number 3
Thanks!
So I placed a large bowl at the exit of the PRV drain pipe. A couple months after the bowl was full of water. I emptied it and decided to call another plumber and if he could not determine what's wrong just extend the PRV drain pipe to the outside. When he showed up I explained the problem and he went thru the steps of checking all the basics. Water pressure 55PSI, Hot water temp 133F, Expansion tank OK. Since the water dump via the PRV is so intermittent I stated that I can live with that and I would like the PRV drain plumbed to the outside through the adjacent garage wall. He did everything he could to sway me to not extend the PRV drain and suggested I lower the hot water temp to 120F as that could be the problem. When I questioned him he said since I seem to know everything he's done and left.
Am I missing something here? I have owned houses all my life and have had way higher water pressure of 55PSI and probably at least the 133F water temps, maybe higher and have never had problems. Perhaps I should call another plumber and just say I want my PRV drain line plumbed to the outside and NOT even mention the intermittent leak problem.
Any questions, suggestions, comments would be appreciated or should I try door number 3
Thanks!
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