There’s an alarm (sounds like a distant burglar alarm) coming from my (gas) tankless hot water heater (Bosch Aquastar)…

Called the gas company, but with no gas smell, they won’t do anything. Been googling and reading the manual on the company website, but no answers…

Interestingly, the alarm finally shut off this morning after 5 hours, at the same time as the furnace came on with heat….

Hi,

My basement was flooded due to a broken sump pump, and no backup sump pump was available. This caused my hot water heater to get wet. I have a 2006 model of Rheem auto-pilot. It won’t light up again. I’ve tried to dry it with a blowdryer, leaving it there for 3 days straight. The blowdryer even heated up the tank and gave me enough to take a quick, warm shower…

My question is, what should I do now? The pilot won’t light up again. It is an auto-pilot gas heater. I’ve seen Do It Yourself videos online, instructing how to light up a pilot.. But the model they showed in the video was not an auto-pilot. I am scared to light up mine because the manual’s instructions says "Do not light up the pilot manually."

If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it.

I’ve had a plumber come by, and he told me to get a new tank. I want to try to get it to work first.

Having an electric hot water heater installed for the first time in an old house. house uses oil furnace to heat water and radiators. Do i just put the electric hot water heater in place of the hot water tank connected to the furnace?
It is being done professionally but id rather know whats really supposed to happen and to better describe the situation if need be.
oil furnace was installed in 1979 and not maintained, currently costing about 600$ a month to keep full.

If there are any plumbing experts out there, I would really appreciate your input.

I have a Rheem hot water tank (2006 model).. It operates on an auto-pilot. My basement was flooded and now the burner won’t light up. The pilot is blinking a green light.

What should I do? Does this mean that I have to replace for an entirely new hot water heater? If so, what are your thoughts on a tankless water heater? Any recommendations?
I’ve had a plumber come by, charged me for telling me to get a brand new tank because Rheem will void the warranty (for parts) if they run an electrical test and find out that it’s due to flooding… This plumber doesn’t do electrical stuff. =/
And I don’t have flood insurance. =(
Nope.. it was a sump pump issue. I don’t have a backup pump neither… Where should I place this blowdryer? towards the electrical wires and inside where the pilot is??

I now heat my home to 75 degrees using anthracite coal. I use just a little bit more than 3 tons per heating season. I used to burn 700 gallons of #2 fuel oil to achieve 68 degrees and used electricity produced from a coal fired power plant to operate the oil burner. I now also heat my domestic hot water from my coal stove and my electric hot water heater is only used in the summer months when the stove is not in use. Many complain that burning "smokeless" anthracite or hard coal pollutes the air. I agree it does but I think I produce less pollution by burning coal directly in my home than all that oil and electricity that comes from commercial power enterprises. Please advise: Ct Gregor

I have a relative who is a plumber and he keeps raising the costs for replacing our hot water heater, it feels shady, now he’s very insistent on taking our old tank. We are easily able to dispose of it, so we wonder why he’s pushing the subject on this.

I’m looking to buy a new hot water heater but im stuck on which to get.
A rinnai or a tank? What the advantages and disadvantages of both. What one would be best for my money?

in my lease it states to pay for utilities for your own unit, only to find out from the gas company that we are paying for the hot water for the other apartments because the building’s single hot water heater is in our apartment (commercial 100 gallon). Landlord says it isn’t his problem cause he supposedly discounted the rent, that was not mentioned in the lease or to us before signing the lease. Our gas bill is outrageous and we are trying to break the year lease around 7 months early….would this be a breach of contract by the landlord?

I am buying a 1238sf split level home, that is very energy efficient. Some key features are lennox G61 two stage furnace 95% with touch screen t panel, Rinnai on demand hot water heater, all exterior walls blown with R-23 dense pact optima w/ fabric, R-50 in attic, windows are low E/argon glass which meets energy star .3, zip wall system, zip roof, 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, gas stove, certified blow door tested, all duct work sealed and insulated to energy standards, spray foam all over heads, forced hot air. So my question is how long would a 500 gal propane tank last on avg in the winter months and then after the winter?

.. to his best friend. I’ve been dating this man for about a month now, and he is amazing. Very good looking, owns his own company, his own home, he can cook….. he can even flip pancakes in the air and catch them in the pan. He is overall amazing and I like him a lot. Recently I was playing with his phone and snooping quite honestly and I read a text he sent his best friend a few days prior saying "dude, mark my words, she’s the one"
He is 32, I’m 26. He’s not the overly emotional type, truly very manly. In the old spice commercial where the actor says do you wish your man would bake you a cake in the dream kitchen he built for you with his bare hands….. that is this man. I have no idea what to think of this. I guess I’m wondering what this means. He also is fixing up his already amazing home more. He called me today to say he was going t surprise me with what he had done tonight when I come over for a movie bu he wanted to tell me now. He bought a new hot water heater and installed it himself, a new water filtration system and installed it himself, and a new toilet that yes he installed himself. All of his friends are married, and I’m just curious about this behavior. Not that any sane woman would complain.