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Why is my electric water heater making an intermittent groaning noise?
My 8 year old electric water heater started to make a strange rattling noise a couple of weeks ago. The noise happens at random and lasts for only a few minutes. Short bursts of noise about a minute ...
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Why is a heating vent dropping rust onto my attic floor?
There is a 24 year old Trane heating system in the attic which has to be replaced. I noticed the insulation below the vent where it joins the heating system has a sprinkling of rust all around the ...
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How can I safely remove one baseboard heater out of a set of two?
I have two baseboard heaters on either side of my living room. They are both on the same breaker and connected to the same thermostat. The breaker looks like it takes up two spots and has a 20 on the ...
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What could cause a shower to give warm water for a few seconds, then only cold water?
The house has four bedrooms. The 40 gallon gas water heater is about 60 feet from this
shower. The house is a one story house in flat terrain. I have already changed the mixing faucet for the shower, ...
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Can I connect a combination heater/fan unit to the existing bathroom wiring?
I have a dedicated 15A circuit for a top-floor bathroom fan with heat lamps which draws much less than capacity. There is nothing else on this circuit.
I know that code for a 15A 14ga circuit at 80% ...
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How do I quiet a noisy furnace condensate pump?
I have a mostly-finished basement, with the furnace in a utility room off the main room. I feel the condensate pump is noisy, but this is my first heater with one, so I'm not sure if its normal dB or ...
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Do I need to add a protective layer to insulation for wall heater?
I am going to install a 4000 watt wall heater to an add on. It is the kind of wall heater that is seated in the wall. i also plan to install insulation in between my wall studs. there will be ...
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Why is my A/C unit running when the heater runs?
So it finally got cold here in AZ. We switched our thermostat from A/C to Heat. Now for some reason when the electric heater runs, the A/C condenser unit outside kicks on too. This is our first winter ...
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Why is my hot water baseboard heater not heating?
I have classic cast iron radiators in my house and then one "modern" one pictured below. It was installed in the 80s from what I know. It doesn't seem to produce much heat at all.
It is properly ...
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How can I make this old space heater more quiet?
I have an old space heater running along the outside-facing walls. It's a very simple heater: it consists of a pipe, a heat sink all along it, and a cover. I don't know what's inside the pipe; most ...
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What could cause a clicking noise in an electric water heater?
I get clicking sound from our electric water heater as well. it lasts for a while, then
stops...then starts again, etc. we recently had technician out who said it needed to be
cut back on the setting ...
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How can I fix this leak?
There's a water leak in the tube coming out of my heater. Yet the bolts look tightly put.
I'm not sure how to fix it. Any idea ?
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How to check the heater element of an Electrolux ESI 6160 dishwasher?
I have an Electrolux dishwasher, that occasionally does not heat the water. I suspect that the heating element is somewhat badly connected.
How can I check that. Especially, does someone have ...
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Did the plumber hook up my water heater backwards?
I just had a plumber install a new 50 gallon water heater, but the cold water pipe is installed to the hot side (the left pipe when facing the front of the heater) and the hot water pipe is installed ...
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What could be causing my water heater inlet pipe to corrode?
There is corrosion forming on the inlet and TP valve connections to my water heater; the outlet seems to be fine. More specifically, the nipples are what is corroding. I have read the copper pipe ...
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Cannot figure out wiring of most basic Honeywell thermostat (heater only)
I live in an apartment with central heat. It's controlled by a round Honeywell thermostat. The heater ticks really loudly and annoyingly when it heats up and cools down (probably a topic for a ...
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Why is my electric wall heater slow to turn on and then quick to shut off?
I have a few electric wall heaters in my bathroom and laundry room made by Intertherm. They may be 30 years old. When you turn the dial to high, it takes 10 minutes or more before it actually turns ...
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How do I use this H/L/V Wiring?
I am replacing an OLD h/l/v with a BROAN 100HFL
I DO NOT have a 12/2 and a 12/3 coming from the 3 switches on the wall.
I DO have this, two 12/2 coming from the 3 switches AND another 12/2 that ran ...
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Hot water heater overflow outside drain pipe
My hot water heater's overflow outside drain pipe has been running hot water out of it non-stop. I turned the inflow water valve to the water heater off and the water stopped running. But what is ...
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How can I prevent heat loss through heater/air conditioner wall units?
HVAC experts out there...
I live in Wisconsin and it gets mighty cold here! I have a condo with 2 wall units that are used for both air conditioning and heat. My heat bill in the cold winter months ...
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Trying to wire a 220v line-voltage thermostat
I am trying to replace my old 220v line-voltage thermostat with a modern version. The problem is that after wiring the new version in like the old it doesn't work. I have (2) 12-2 wires coming out of ...
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What's wrong with an electrical outlet that will power a lamp but not a space heater?
Thought my space heater had died when I plugged it in and it wouldn't turn on, not even the "on" indicator light, so I went out and bought a new one. When the new one wouldn't work either, I tested ...
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Why isn't my Empire heater getting any gas? [closed]
My Empire heater does not seem to be receiving any gas when I turn or press the pilot knob. I believe the gas is supposed to flow when you press the pilot knob to light the heater but nothing comes ...
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Hot air gun / paint stripper for melting plastic
I'm not sure if this is the right kind of question for this site, but I thought that people here are more likely to know the answer.
I'm looking for a hot air gun in order to melt plastic - mostly ...
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How do I diagnose a thermostat and HVAC that intermittently doesn't respond?
My gas heater for the whole house does not follow the thermostat settings on some mornings. I have set it to 70 degrees at 6 am but now it is still 60 at 8 am. This happens weekly once or so and seems ...
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Where should I install a wall heater?
I have a house with no wall heater, and would like to install one. What criteria should I use to help me determine the best place for the heater? Is it better, for instance, to be on an inside wall? ...
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What should I use to wire a 220v electric baseboard heater and thermostat? 12/2 or 12/3
When I bought my baseboard heaters, thermostats and 220v breakers I was advised to get 12/3 wire. When I attempted to install the heaters I found that the thermostats, heaters, and even breakers have ...
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What to do about furnace that's drawing gas odors into the room instead of heat?
I have a gas furnace. It was heating up the place fine and worked for years until the other day.
All of a sudden it started drawing air that smelled like strong gas odors into the room rather than ...
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Gas heater not turn on, but fan-only still works when switched on from thermostat
my up-level heating system (gas heater) stopped working if the thermostat is at auto; fan can be on without warm air if switch the thermostat to ON from Aotu. Is this a thermostat problem or heat ...
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Installing a switch for a water heater's lower element
I'd like to install a switch for the lower element of my water heater. I haven't even looked inside the water heater yet, but I'm a little confused about what the best way to go about doing this ...
