Thread 2951944

First time home owner here. The drain valve on my hot water heater is leaking. Water is coming directly from the opening, not the surrounding threads or anything like that. I googled it and it looks like an easy fix, but wife (her dad was a tradie) says that something like this should be done by a pro because it involves pressure and if fucked up or not done properly can make the appliance nearly unusable until a pro looks at it. Temp and pressure is absolutely fine right now. I've put a garden hose cap on it to stop the leak while I figure out my next move. YouTube vids make it look stupid easy and it would take like 20 minutes and cost $20.
What am I missing here? Zero experience with plumbing outside of unclogging s toilet or replacing a p trap, faucet, or shower head. Ive
Pls no bully, I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff.

>>2951944 (OP)
you're not missing anything, your wife is dumb and a fear monger. there will be no pressure if you turn the water off first, and even if you do fuck it up, it's going to cost the same to have a "pro" look at it whether or not you tried to change it first, so why not try?

just make sure you replace it with a brass valve and not a plastic one, use teflon tape, and thread it in by hand until you can't anymore, and then doing one or two more turns with a wrench. if it's an old heater, you're going to want a big wrench to take off the old valve. you're going to need to drain the whole water heater before you change it out (obviously). don't be worried if you have a bunch of calcium and mineral build up come out when you drain it, that's normal. if it's a slow drain, wiggle a screw driver in the hole to knock stuff loose. it would also be smart to change the anode rod while you're doing this. then it's going to take a couple hours before you have hot water again after turning everything back on

>>2951944 (OP)
>Pls no bully, I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff.
guaranteed to get bullied

>>2951961
Based, ty anon.
>>2951964
Mfw

>>2951944 (OP)
>First time home owner here.
The first and most important thing you should learn when owning a home is every single detail of how your house is built, the exact contents of it, and the skills you need to repair any defect which occurs within its boundary.
The second thing you need is the ability to gauge what cost implications there will be when you start something and very quickly run out of skill.
If is already broken, how much worse can you make it? Oh ad don't be hard on your wife either. Women don't get it. But you should be aware from her reaction that she thinks absolutely nothing of you. If you do break it even worse you will never hear the end of it. Even if you fix it be prepared to take the blame for other unrelated failures from now on.

>>2951995
>But you should be aware from her reaction that she thinks absolutely nothing of youi fixed it today. Took literally no time. Draining was the hardest/most annoying part.

>>2952028
>fixed it today. Took literally no time. Draining was the hardest/most annoying part.
nice one. how does it feel? incredible right? nothing can stop you now brother.

>>2951944 (OP)
I have the same issue. Just slapped one of these on.

>>2951944 (OP)
You need to flush it, a piece of sediment got stuck in the drain valve. Turn off let cool drain by full opening. Have somewhere for the water to go. Close, fill, repeat if it leaks. If it doesn't turn it back on after filling

>>2952028
Nice work, anon
Did you gape her, right after, while you were still dirty?