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There’s always a chance that there’s a dead animal in your water heater
by anikom15 4y ago
There’s always a chance that there’s a dead animal in your water heater
- gambiting 4y agoI mean.....I don't know about elsewhere, but here in UK you just have a combi boiler, there's no storage.
- anikom15 4y agoAnywhere with abundant natural gas (like America) will mostly have tank water heaters powered by gas.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI'm torn between wanting more information, and preferring to live in blissful ignorance.
- gambiting 4y agoIn old houses if you had a hot water storage tank in the attic it was usually just covered with styrofoam or a metal or wooden slab, it wasn't uncommon for an occasional insect or yes, a small rodent to fall in and die in there. It's one of the reasons why most houses in the UK had separate cold and hot water taps - cold water was considered safe to drink, hot not so much. Nowadays if you have a hot water cylinder it's impossible for anything to get in there(although there is still a chance of bacteria growing inside the tank, but any modern cylinder will periodically heat itself to very high temperature to kill any pathogens)
- dehrmann 4y agoAren't there occasionally dead animals in NYC rooftop water towers, too? And that's cold water.
- anikom15 4y agoIt could be a bird, a bat, or a victim of bipolar disorder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
- bmicraft 4y agoNo, my water runs through a heat exchanger