 want to shave every 1000 here as you can see behind me is a hot water tank this hot water tank has got to go guys and I'll explain to you here in a minute but I'm going to show you how to change one of these out it's real simple this is an electric one gas is a little more touchy so be careful if you're going to deal with that I don't have a gas one or I would show you how to do that this one's electric so it's it's simple but there may be an issue we're going to run into and we'll get to that as well stick around let's change this out hey guys so what's been going on with this thing it's been happening for a long time this is a very old tank right behind here and right behind there are heating elements now the issue that we've been having for a long time is rust I did a video a year or two ago of when we drained this tank and there was a bunch of sediment and the bottom of it rust and what's happening is and it's pre-filtered so you can't run a filter you can't run hot water into a filter okay so it was turning monkey's hair red so I drained it and it worked alright for a while but I knew it wouldn't last I didn't think it would last this long but it but it has now the problem I had when I drained this tank was up inside here what's going on is it's it's filling up with sediment you know we do have hard water but like I said it is pre-filtered but it's mostly rust sediment and stuff like that it's filled up past this so I don't know how I'm going to drain that okay so I may just have to grab it and growl which I'm not supposed to do now what I've done also is I've I've uh ran all the hot water out of it okay um because I already had this shut off but I decided I'm going to show you how to check and make sure the power's off so all the hot water is out of it and your hot and cold is always printed up here on top or it'll have a red and blue so um but normally you'll have a valve going in to your tank okay and that'll be your cold water but let's go ahead and shut this off right here and I will also uh shut it off outside at the main just in case there's an issue with this one and these are those um shark bites these are freaking awesome guys and I'll be showing you some more about these later on the install this is your pop off valve if it builds up too much pressure for some reason uh your thermostats in here go bad builds up too much pressure this will pop and shoot water out of there now now code says this needs to come down and be within six inches of the floor as you can see it is not uh so there I do have a hole in the wall where I think this one actually went but uh what I do what I'm gonna do I won't be able to do it today because I don't have all the stuff I need I'm just going to run this down and out through that hole in the wall and I think that's what that was there for Jesus monkey messaging me scared to hell out of me okay now like I said when I drained the hot water all I did was uh just turn the hot water on turn all your hot water on let it run now mine wasn't hot enough to burn me that was another reason um it's been getting to where it just been I mean it wasn't even sauna hot you know it was just it was kind of hot but I mean you could just turn straight hot on and take a shower and not get burned so I knew one of the elements went bad and last night it was just look warm so I knew the other element went bad but overnight it started heating up again a little bit um so I'm gonna show you so anyway this this thing's gotta go um I looked at the date on it and it is a 1989 so um this is a 40 gallon tank we're putting in a 50 gallon tank and this is two 4500 watt heating elements and that's what we're putting back in here um it's going to be by the same company but uh it's going to be 50 gallons so we're going to have a 10 more gallon than what we have now which does make a difference but that'll be plenty plenty for this little house single bathroom you know so uh I want to show you how to check this power because we want to make sure this power is off and see like right now the power I did turn the power back on because I wanted to show that to you but I don't hear it heating up or anything usually you can hear this thing heating up okay so right under here is a phillips screw this is where and this is your ground right here this is where your uh 220 comes in okay and right under here is your wires now let me get you on the stand I'll show you what I'm going to do so right under here is our wires be very careful when you do this just in case somebody didn't put a wire nut on or something because you never know now this is not the original hot water heater for the house I think it the original one had gotten stolen uh when the house sat empty because they they took what copper they could and all that kind of stuff um and up there they took all this this is all added on which I did not do so I know somebody had put these on so this tank was probably just one that had sent around in the shop somewhere but it is a 1989 now those are wires okay it's black red and then the ground is over here already show you that now I'm going to use my tester here if you don't have one of these okay I'll tell you how you can test them but this okay now if you're if you're hot water tank your circuit breaker for your hot water tank if it's labeled that's cool that's well and good now I happen already know the hell I happen already know which one this is because I shut this off before when I drained the tank that one time now anytime you drain a tank gas or electric you want to shut the power off or the gas off okay because these things will still try to kick on because it doesn't sense any hot water so it'll kick on your burner heating elements out okay so and gas the same way you don't want that big flame up under there you know cooking on nothing so make sure you do that even if you're just draining draining the tank okay um another thing is now if you don't have one of these I would still check even if yours is labeled if you've never done anything you know what what if what if someone labeled it wrong or something got moved and that label got left there and I see ours ours I had to check it because when the house sat empty you know when it was just it was pretty much demolished when the vandals came in they spray painted a bunch of stuff and of course they spray painted overall you know the on the the door of the panel where it says you know living room bathroom hot water heater whatever they spray painted over that so I did check it now I happen to know which one it is it is the top one online uh yours you know of course could be way different now if you don't have one of these tools and I wouldn't suggest trying to probe that that's 220 with a multimeter okay if you don't have one of these tools best thing you can do is get you a good flashlight headlamp camera light whatever shut your main off to your whole house and it'll definitely kill the power to this okay just shut your main breaker off I mean if you gotta set a couple clocks later that's fine that's better than you know because you can't reset yourself right so let's be safe so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and shut this off as you can see here is power let's go shut it off and I'll be right back and we'll check it and make sure it is off okay now I flipped the breaker as you can see this is dead so this is safe to work with now okay so let me take these out here now on these just hook these up the same exact way to your new one as these ones are okay but what it is is your black wire from the tank is going to hook up to the black wire okay your red wire will hook up to the white wire and then your ground of course will be grounded over here somewhere that it'll have a screw for okay let's go ahead and take our ground all there's a ground on this I'm not sure how they got this put in there he's sticking my finger in there because it's fighters so I'm guessing it's held in here I've never seen this set up quite like this before so that's no one do it see there's that thing let's go ahead take these two screws out here like I said this thing's been acting up that's why I drained it and I'm pretty sure I said there's no one I'm not going to be able to drain it again in that video because uh you drain it too many times when they're that bad and pretty much asking for elite you know so okay so this we're going to go ahead and unhook these again just to make sure there's no power before I go grabbing on to 220 if you shake this sometimes it'll be so there we're good to go there's no no power so we're gonna try to figure out how to get these up through here yes okay here's something that that I see that I don't like you guys see that there's a rip say there's a bare wire there so probably we're going to have to trim that back or something because you can't have that make sure there's no more yeah it's that's a bare wire definitely a bare wire no good okay so we will address that when putting the new one in monkey was messaging me telling me shit that she's on her way she's done she only had one patient today she was supposed to be off but I may just have to clip that I like to do let's go ahead and put these back on if they will these ones don't sometimes if they'll screw on screw your wire nuts back on this anymore move these this see that just beep when you shake it sometimes when you shake it but as you can see we just touch these and they're fine so all right I will save those screws now what we're going to do now these these shark bites here they have a tool that pushes that down now you can use a wrench that'll go over that and push it down and you can pop pop them out I'm just going to go ahead and cut these of what I'm probably going to do is cut it up here right here at this elbow and right here at this elbow and I'll run my lines I don't know how tall the new heaters on I know it's a tall one but I don't know if it's you know going to be like this much taller or what so I'm going to use the flex lines on it and that's perfectly fine so now I gotta see if I can get this thing green out the back door here and like I said I went ahead and shut the outside water off too a lot of plumbers don't like when you use a hacksaw on these they've got to cut or not I've got a pair but my blades broke so it looks like a looks like a weird pruning shearing it cuts them right off but what I'm going to use is I got like a drywall cutter over there I'll show it to you I'm going to use that on these like I said I will probably cut it off here right there and I will be saving these so but first thing I got to do is try to get this drained or I'll never get this thing out of here by myself so I'm sure there's not 40 gallons in it no more all that sediment probably took away about 10 gallons of it but let me see if I can get it to drink my fear has come to pass look at that and I assure you that's not this is just what little bit came out of that that little hose out there that little hose on the ground that came out of it actually came out of the hose she can see nothing's coming out of this so rather than flood the garage I'm just going to have to manhandle this somewhere or another so right now I'm going to go ahead and cut these and get them get them off here so I can get this out that's anything that's left keeping me from getting this hot water tank out of here so hopefully hopefully I can get it out of here without hurting something like myself okay guys let me get you set up and I'll I'll show you what I'm going to use got them all this is what I'm going to use this little cut off tool here I've got a new blade for but I think this one will work so right now I'm just going to cut it off right here and I'll get this one off right here just for now okay there we go I gotta try to get this thing out of here so I'll set you up outside and I'll show you you'll see me bringing it out hang tight watch yourselves coming at you there we go let me show you the rust that's coming out of this hey we're gonna go get the new one and I'll film what I can for you that it should be a little bit lighter look at that think I'll see if I can get this valve out of here and I'll show you all the goop that's in that amazing that's what we was showering with washing dishes with that's all rust guys I did get the the water spigot out of the bottom and I heard a big thump it sounded like a rock fell in so I'm guessing all that stuff just came loose from shaking this thing around and dropped down in of course I couldn't do that in there to drain it but once this drains it won't be that bad that bad I'll drag it out of the way and what we're going to do is I'll probably bring the truck right through here like we did when we brought the stuff back for the shed and I'll pull up that way and I'll just back up in here this one will be moved and I'll back up in here as close as I can and we'll just unload it and I'll drag it into the door we are going to get a new drip pan for that if they're not cracked they'll be fine cleaning up clean them up they're fine but that one does have a break in it so we'll just get a new one we're going to be looking at right around $510, $520 it just depends but the tank itself is $449 and I'm going to buy those the flax hoses they are uh they're 15 bucks a piece so there's 30 bucks and then I don't know what that'll cost and then of course there'll be tax on that but I'll let you know what the overall price was for that um look at that that just that's horrible but what do you do you know you don't have oops sorry see that and you can just hear see I just blocked it off with all that sediment just came and blocked that off wow I don't know how well you guys can see that but look at that see some of this that's calcium that's rust there might be a little bit of sand in there because when we first got together see she had a whole new pump and stuff put in before we got together and he never put a filter never put a water softener anything in it so there might be a little bit sand in that but look at that so I usually try to drain these once a year but this one I knew the first time I drained it it wasn't gonna last long so I thought I'd better not drain it again so but yeah that's that all that stuff look at that actually big piece of rust there that's all coming out of that tank Jesus not very healthy either that's that other one's too easy it was a lot more than that before I drained it well I drained out there yeah yeah this is this is really easy all right she's in huh now we're hooking up this is just self-explanatory screw these down in here this just screws in like it does on any metal box tightens down then you run your wires down through and then put your little cap on here tighten these two screws look the black to black and red to white okay so I've already got the ground there's a ground screw right down here in the bottom of here on this new one real convenient and I fixed that that little bear spot in that one wire remember I showed you taped it up real good I think the hardest part is trying to get these wires back up in there so you got 10 pound of wire and a five pound bag right so monkey's behind me learning right monkey you learning hide and watch right and now you don't have to do this guys but I like to on 220 110 I don't worry about it too much but I like to tape these up on the 220s washers dryers water heater stoves things like that just a little extra precaution right mama yep so this came out to what was it five twenty six seventy six anyway it was something like that five that was yeah we got to take the pan back because that pan's not gonna work and I can't put a bigger pan in here there's just not enough room so I've got this one is at an angle so if I do have to drain it it's at an angle I can just drain it out but the pan was 15 and get this it's an aluminum pan right and they had 12 of them there and there was only one that wasn't I mean these things look like they've been run over didn't I mean they wasn't just like a little neck here in the air a little ding they look like they had been actually run over so yeah every one of them did so now we're gonna put put this on here this just goes in like this and you put your screw down in here like I said the lines or 15 bucks a piece that's that shut off is good so I didn't get the one with the shut off it's 30 bucks on it soon so if you need to put a shut off with which I would recommend anytime you replace your hot water heater if it don't have a shut off going into the water heater put one in it you know it's 30 bucks and it hooks on the same way these do the only difference is it's just got a so that's it's just got a valve on it so it's off the old one this off the old one all right now we need to pop these things out see blue says cold and red says hot so you can't mix them up okay guys so these stay in their heat traps it's like a little stopper in there now these they just right this is the cold you're gonna push out up on and then pull back and make sure it's all the way in there once you pull back that should be it of this a lot of guys will tell you to put tape on here but remember it doesn't seal here guys it's got a little rubber seal up inside of here and then this is like a plastic rubberous type thing it's going to seal there so if it leaks anywhere it's still one week out of here so putting thread tape on here is a waste of time and a waste of thread tape okay so I was going to get the 18 inch but I wasn't sure if I had to do any modifications or anything like that so I went ahead and got the 24 inch 18 inch ones are of course less expensive and I love these things they got the notch here it's just kind of like a wrench it just fits right in there and tighten these down now I'm going to put the other one on and we'll turn it on and check for leaks before we turn the electric on we're going to turn the water on we're going to look for leaks here here and here and here okay let's and it's filling up now once this fills up I'm going to go uh go over and turn it on you don't want to turn it on yet you want to have water in there because you don't want them heating elements to be on with no water so it's filling up fast she said I can hear it filling up filling up fast this is kind of I may since I know what I need now I may uh change these later the shorter ones so so they're well I just don't like the looks of that but I mean it doesn't hurt anything guys it's just aesthetics you know so I'm gonna have well I'll take you in I'll show you how you burp it you all you do is you turn your your hot water on in all your sinks and and bathtubs or whatever of course we can't do it in the uh the kitchen yet but I'd have to do that anyway because I mean you're going to use it but so yeah this is uh so we'll go in and we'll turn them on and what it does is spit out I'll show you okay so we're in the bathroom now we're going to turn this on and then like start spitting we've got to turn this on because I know it's got to be airing on but anyway just let them run for you know a couple minutes eat what they'll do sometimes okay guys now I'll show you how to do your thermostat there's little thermostats in each one of these there's one up here and one down at the bottom you just take this cover off make sure you do it when the electric is off and already set this one and then I thought well I better show them so I will do it again for you it's only one screw all right and lift this up that knob right there okay now I always set mine at 140 but it's a matter of preference uh like I was telling monkey some people set it just where they like it so they don't have to mix the whole cold and hot see it's just a little screwdriver and see I got this one set at 140 140 degrees that's Fahrenheit okay a lot of people set it just where just hot enough for them so when they get in the shower or bath they just turn the hot water on and that's it but I like to run it about 140 you know for doing dishes and stuff like that so and that's how you do that now put your back up here and I'll show you how that goes on and there's one at the bottom too same exact the exact same thing as what's up here you just and you want to both set as even you know if it's 140 set it both at exactly 140 because this heats the bottom part of your water this heats the top part of your water so and then you got your little cover that goes back on here now it goes inside like that okay it slides in and then you just put your screwdriver back on or your screw back in just make sure like I said you make sure you adjust them the same and if you notice they're not all numbered like 110 120 you know what I mean and you got to give them a while to change you know like like when you set your refrigerator when you set the the temperature on it it's not going to change immediately it's going to take a day or so same way with this but make sure you get them as close as possible you know like you don't want this one set at 140 and that one set around 100 you don't want that were vice versa so try to get them to set as as good as possible so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go out here and I'm going to go turn the uh I'm going to go turn the power on and make sure there's no sparks okay so I'll leave you on just in case you'll be looking under here for any sparks that's going to come out of here hey no sparks good no sparks yeah we're alive yeah and this is alive um like I said now code this this has to be within six inches of your floor uh what I would have liked have done is move this or take this there's a hole in the wall from where the original one used to go out through I'd like to do that but instead of trying to route a bunch of plumbing it back in there I may just run a straight piece of pipe down six inches from the floor and it's code everything I do is code all right so it should be heating up now um we're going to give it a couple hours and we're going to check it out so hang tight we'll be right back with you okay guys here we go I got my meat thermometer here 78 degrees now let's turn this on I mean it's still going to take a minute because it this got to run 50 feet or whatever so there it goes let's get warm so because it runs up the wall across over into the kitchen where it splits off and then over from the kitchen into the uh into the garage and then down the wall into the garage and then over the hot water tank there it goes how it's been how long what was 40 minutes been about 45 minutes yeah all right okay so I'm just using a meat thermometer so it's not going to be real accurate but we'll get an idea of what we're running here and I'll show it to you we're at 96 right now there's a hundred hundred and five hundred and thirteen fourteen it's raising there's 120 122 23 there's 125 right there it's been about 45 minutes they can see that 125 it's been about 45 minutes that's pretty good for just being put in yeah well I'm using this meat thermometer too so it's not going to be like super accurate right got set on there's 127 like I said I set it on 140 which I may have to turn it down but there's 127 right there and it's hot you can't hold your hand under there's 129 so yeah about when it hits an hour it'll probably be pushing to 140 so overnight it'll definitely hit 140 as I said we just put it in so 129 here we go it's moving on up yep and with this this is a coffee maker because we have no kitchen countertop so I make my coffee in the bathroom monkey and I wash my dishes in the tub yes she I walked in here the other night she used her mom's shower bench and had herself a little dishwashing station there yep you may do what you got but this is just temporary yeah we don't live like this no so anyway guys there you go that's how you do it's third finish like I said the lines were 15 bucks apiece if you have to get the valve that line with the valve on it's 30 it's 20 dollars itself but since I already had a working valve in there I just had to get the lines over 15 bucks apiece there's 30 bucks and the drip pan which we're not going to use because I just don't have room for it there is 15 so we can take it back so my 15 dollars on a bent tray yeah so and it was 449 so taxing everything came out to 526 like that yeah so man like I said if you know if you don't need the pan you know that's gonna save you 10 to 15 dollars those plastic ones are 10 the aluminum ones was 15 so I mean you know you're looking at a little over you're looking at 510 to 525 30 depending on what all you need to buy but right everything I use there you know is like the salt I mean you may have to get cutters if you don't have that stuff but you know I got that so there you go I got a new water tank and a no more rust yay I can actually wash my hair again the rust in the tub will go away now oh thank god it's been horrible and in there in that sink yeah yeah so it'll all go away and your hair won't turn red no more no more yeah I've been washing my hair in the sink yeah well but I am bottled water I had to buy bottled water yeah it's still water so that was expensive so this should save us money all the way around yeah yeah I knew it was coming I don't have to move dishes to take a shower now and he came and measured for the counters today yeah he came and measured them so hopefully tomorrow it's said Friday or Monday I asked him if it was sooner than later I said I want my sink back yeah you laughed so there you guys go that's that's how you do it's real easy it is as easy as I showed trust me if if you know if you're any kind of a handy person handy man handy woman handy lady whatever I think you can do it just fine just follow the steps what I did simple make sure I didn't mind if I said it but I used sandpaper on those plastic lines cleaned them out make sure there was nothing in there right they say don't use sandpaper I've been doing it for 30 years I've never had an issue I've probably in the past 20 years I've probably put in 50 hot water eaters for people and clothing my own and I've never had an issue I did have one of those cleaners they make a special cleaner goes on there and I got the feeling inside there that some of them are little pieces of sandpaper in there and some of them are little brushes water brushes and some of them are like these little ceramic things I don't like the one with sandpaper isn't it that what they say don't use that makes sense tell us just use 80 grit and a piece of 80 grit sandpaper you'll be fine it won't leak so make sure you cut it off straight too so straight as you can get it you'll be all right yay so there you go now in about 10 12 years monkey can do it no I'll be too old I'm older than you I'll be older too old you'll have to do I'm gonna change one every 10 years I'm good with that so they have the 550 or the 5500 watt it's like a hundred dollars more and you get a 10 year or a nine year warranty with it this is a six year warranty and it's 4500 watts so I knew the breakers would take it because that's what our other one was so we're good to go yeah all right well thanks for watching guys appreciate it monkey says she's out for now y'all and she very much man legend gone for now guys stay safe and stay tuned for more videos we'll chat at you soon bye bye guys