Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Love Your RV! - My Yearly RV Hot Water Heater Maintenance




From the site: Love Your RV! - My Yearly RV Hot Water Heater Maintenance

IntroductionRV hot water heater maintenance is pretty straight forward. With a few tools, a warm sunny afternoon and a little know how it’s easy to do it yourself. The main thing we want to do is flush out the sediments and deposits that build up over time in the tank and replace any corrode parts. There are two big manufactures of HW tanks for RVs. They are Atwood and Suburban and the big difference between them is Suburban uses an anode rod and Atwood doesn’t. An anode rod is made of aluminum or magnesium and designed to be a sacrificial element. Meaning instead of the tank corroding away the anode rod does. My Keystone Cougar fifth wheel has a Suburban SW6DE HW heater installed in it so the following article and video will de ...Read more...




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