Thank you Mike!! I watched and read several different ways to get this done and yours was by far the simplest and easiest. You are the Man!!

Gave this method a try today, by far maybe the easiest without changing the fittings going into the Hot Water Tank. As someone else mentioned it takes some lung power. I finally heard water coming out of the open tap in the kitchen and some noise which sounded like inside the tank. So I am going to assume that I did get some air bubbles inside and ‘injected the hydrogen peroxide. I never smelled a heavy odor, but weak one, but I do smell some odor when you cup your hand filled from hot side only, cold has no smell and I am assuming is fine. We shall see over time if it improves the hot side or give it another round Now my tank is a stainless steel tank and thus does not contain an anode rod. Has anyone used like a Ryobi inflator to get a better injection of the Hydrogen Peroxide? Or maybe drain the tank and with it empty do the injection without the need of more than lung power. Nice video, Thanks for sharing!

If you have hard water from iron its the anoid rod in the heater

I did this. I didn't think the hydrogen peroxide was in the tank but the smell went away. If it hadn't worked, I would have drained the entire tank, then added the hydrogen peroxide and then filled the tank again.

Awesome! I was just wondering the other day if I could do this through the drain, since we live in a rental and I didn't want to go cutting into pipes and all that. Thanks!

@miketessieri38

8 ай бұрын

Yes, give it a try. Hardest part is "blowing" the hydrogen peroxide into the tank. Keep up the blowing pressure until you hear bubbles in the tank!

Water heater only 3 years old. Community water. Used 12% peroxide from Home Depot. Worked nicely for 1 week then sulfur smell returned.

@miketessieri38

Ай бұрын

Unfortunate that the smell came bask so soon. I would give it another shot. Otherwise, it would seem the problem is in the community water supply. Odd.

Thank You Mike You look like Brian Cranston 😂

So I tried this method but it was very hard to get the hydrogen peroxide into the tank. I did not have a shut off valve on the cold water, so I just shut off the water valve to the house, turned the breaker off to the hot water heater, turned on the nearest hot water valve(single story house), then I opened up the drainage valve, let some of the water drain out, poured the hydrogen peroxide in the hose connected to the drainage valve, opened the valve and tried to blow the peroxide into the tank. I think it worked a little but it was difficult to get the peroxide to go into the tank, required a lot of force and I don’t think much made it in. Any other suggestions?

@miketessieri38

Ай бұрын

yes, it does take a lot of “lungs“ to force the peroxide into the tank. When you are successful, you will hear some bubbles entering the tank.

@gs300rich4

Ай бұрын

@@miketessieri38 I did get it to work, noticed an improvement t in the smell almost immediately. Is this something you do periodically? I’m thinking about doing this every 2 or 3 months possibly just to prevent further issues

@miketessieri38

Ай бұрын

@@gs300rich4 Yes, I have to do it periodically...every 4 months or so.

Won’t work if u don’t have a lav. Faucet on the same floor as w/ heater. If ur sink faucet is on the floor above you that is.

@miketessieri38

2 ай бұрын

Good point.

There is a much easier way of doing this. Turn off the valve on the cold water side of the tank. Open the nearest hot water faucet to the water heater to let off the pressure and prevent airlock in your pipes. Unscrew the connection to the cold water inlet .Then drain just enough water from the drain valve to allow you to pour in about 16 oz. of hydrogen peroxide in the cold water inlet that you unscrewed. Turn off the drain valve before pouring in the peroxide. Reconnect the cold water pipe to the cold water inlet on top of the tank and open the valve to the cold water. Let the faucet that you opened run for a minute before turning it off.

@miketessieri38

7 ай бұрын

Kennbo, Yes, if it is easy to "unscrew" the cold water pipe. In my case, I would have gotten into some PVC pipe issues to disconnect cold water.

@miketessieri38

2 ай бұрын

This is an easier way IF you can easily UNSCREW your cold water connection.