Can I lean things on it? Does it need a few inches of room around it for any reason? Its in my storage room and I'm running out of space
Please don't. After climbing through storage rooms and basements piled with junk for a few summers working with my dad, I can tell you it's a real pain in the ass to work on them if they are buried. Not only that, should it ever spring a leak, your stuff will be ruined. Also, be very careful of the relief valve, should it become blocked or unable to blow off if need be, your water heater becomes a rocket. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJoyuUJj2Q"]YouTube - Mythbusters water heater[/ame]
have you seen my room. my heater sits in there with 2 poker tables, 18 chairs, and boxes..its fine everything it touching it
I mean the actual big hot water heater that supplies the apartment with hot water. Trying to fit my deep freeze in the room, but there is some other things that would need to go in there and I was wondering if they can be leaning against it, or if nothing is supposed to touch it..
It won't hurt anything to lean something against it. BUT, like someone else mentioned, when they start to leak, they leak. I'm glad I had nothing around mine 2 summers ago when it let go cause it was a bitch to contain the water. If I had to spend 5 more mins clearing stuff out from around it, it would have been a disaster.
Agreed... If I were to inspect you home...I would advise you not doing this...along with your panel Also if you're putting a deep freeze in a small location, be careful of heat build-up
It depends on what you plan on leaning against it. Most things I wouldn't suggest, because depending on how old it is, it could spring a leak at any moment, or the relief valve could get knocked/blocked and well...we've all seen the mythbusters episode. The chances of it causing problems are probably pretty slim, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
So I did some re-arranging, and put some things in the walk-in bedroom closet, and now everything fits just have a broom handle leaning against the hot water heater.. hopefully that doesn't cause any major problems.. Also, I made sure we have easy access to the shut off valve and the other funky looking things that I don't know anything about! Thanks for the tips, folks
Wicked. Because if you ever need to shut off the power to it for whatever reason, it will be easily accessable
With that Mythbusters thing.....the tank blew up like that because they applied a fast rising PSI to it, no? I'd assume that in a real-life scenario (where the PSI would not build up that fast), the tank would blow a seal around one of the elements or pop an intake pipe or something before it turned into a rocket?
