Hot Water Heater Sometimes Hot Sometimes Warm

Other times we can turn it to the max hot position and it s barely lukewarm.

I tested the voltage at the input and it was 240v i opened the panel and hit the reset button and did not hear the slight noise i usually hear when the elements get hot. In this post we ll explore the the potential reasons that a hot water heater would produce only lukewarm water and discuss potential solutions. Since one heater is not enough to warm up all of the water in the cylinder the resulting water flowing from your hot water tap will be lukewarm. If you recently shut off the gas to your home the pilot light in your gas water heater will have gone out thus allowing the temperature of the water inside the heater to go down slowly.

If the water heater just cycled off the water will be hot. Check each of these in turn and replace as necessary. I don t have a solution but i am having the same problem and we have a gas water heater. The problem is that sometimes when we use the shower if we turn it as far as we can on the hot side max hot it can be so hot that we have to take it back a notch not hot enough to scold just uncomfortable.

A few days ago my hot water got very hot much hotter than normal. It is hot enough for a quick bath but not for a long hot soak. Hi guys i have an a o smith permaglas energy saver water heater. These actually are responsible for heating the water.

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The first is the thermostat that controls the water temperature. Some days the water is plenty hot but other days i go to take a bath and i run only hot water and it never gets hot enough to even need to turn on any cold water. I thought the water heater could be running out of hot water but this happens sometimes first thing in the morning when no other hot water has been used since the night before. If it is almost time for it to kick in again either from sitting or because you just used some of the hot water and it was replaced by.

I thought it odd but didn t worry about it. I cannot find any consistency as to when this happens. Second is the heating element s. You may have one that is faulty or intermittent.

This is one of the most common water heater issues that is hardly exposed. Check if the thermostat is causing you difficulties. Possible reasons for water taking a long time to heat include faulty heating elements sediment build up on the elements and a faulty thermostat.