How Do You Fix A Water Heater?
This article is brief and incomplete, but may be helpful. It relates particularly to electric storage tank water heaters. • If your water heater tank is leaking, the water heater needs to be replaced. Instructions for doing so are not in this article. • Check the circuit breaker or fuse for the circuit that supplies electricity to the water heater. The circuit breaker may have to be reset, or the fuse replaced. If electricity is being supplied to the water heater, but there is no hot water, continue below. • Locate the reset button, usually under the upper access panel on the side of the tank. Press it, and check if you have hot water after about 20 minutes. • If you don’t, or if you do, but it stops working again shortly afterwards, flush your water heater. This may correct the problem. See the article on “how to flush a water heater”. If this does not work, you may need to replace a thermostat or a heating element, which isn’t covered here yet.
