Recently flushed our electric hot water heater (about 2 yr's old) and although it seemed to go fine we now have significantly worse hot water pressure. Cold water is fine, but the hot water is really bad now. Hot water is a little less than 1 GPM, cold water from the same faucet is over 2.5GPM. As far as i know i flushed correctly, my steps where as follows.
Power off to water heater,
hose hooked up to drain at bottom of heater
inlet water valve for heater turned to off position.
Open drain valve.
Open a few faucets to hot position.
After almost no drainage i did pop the pressure valve at the top of the heater and water begin to flow out the drain hose at that point.
Once it seemed empty i opened and closed the inlet valve for the heater a few times to flush out any crud.
so did i do something wrong?
not sure what is going on here but it's pretty clearly something I did because we had better hot water pressure before i touched it.
And yes i have checked like 5 times that the inlet and valve for the water heater is all the way opened.
Power off to water heater,
hose hooked up to drain at bottom of heater
inlet water valve for heater turned to off position.
Open drain valve.
Open a few faucets to hot position.
After almost no drainage i did pop the pressure valve at the top of the heater and water begin to flow out the drain hose at that point.
Once it seemed empty i opened and closed the inlet valve for the heater a few times to flush out any crud.
so did i do something wrong?
not sure what is going on here but it's pretty clearly something I did because we had better hot water pressure before i touched it. And yes i have checked like 5 times that the inlet and valve for the water heater is all the way opened.
