flooded basements

Geo_5 · October 2005

Just wondering what the wallies do when you come across gas controls (water heaters/boilers)that have been submerged, replaces them or try and save them.

ed wallace · October 2005

flooded basements

replace any control that has been under water do not try to save them

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Constantin · October 2005

Every post I've read in the past said:

REPLACE!

A gas valve is a precision-machined piece of equipment. I wouldn't take a chance and put my customers and/or my business' health on the line by leaving a flooded gas system in place. Ditto for oil burners, electronics, and anything else whose performance will be permanently impaired by being submerged in the typical soup that flooded water is.

Geo_5 · October 2005

Floods

OH I'm with you Ed and Constantin,have alot of work to do after the rains we've seen,just had one very good customer of mine hounding me to relight a 75 gallon today,he got the boiler to fire but that darn water heater, I politely said no thanks.

Constantin · October 2005

You did the right thing...

... some people don't want to face the truth. If they want to go ahead and potentially harm themselves by ignoring your advice, that's their call.

Speaking of which, isn't this the sort of situation when a contractor is supposed to disconnect and "red tag" a unit unless he can fix it to make it safe?

Robert O'Connor_12 · October 2005

Geo

Replace.

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