My friend had cool water for showers for 2 1/2 years. I recommended that she adjust the temperature setting on her water heater. She tried that but somehow caused the pilot light to go off. That night she had no warm water. She called at 11:00 PM to "thank" me for my recommendation. She then sent photos and I saw that she had a 2018 Rheem Gas Water Heater with Natural Gas. She then tried to follow the directions on the side of the Water Heater but it wasn't clear just what plate had to be removed. She had also asked for advice via Facebook and a guy with whom she had attended HS sent a link to your video. She followed your instructions. She needed to try lighting a second time but that was a charm. She set it to Hot and she can now have warm showers. You saved her landlord a bunch of money. Thank you for an excellent video. It will help me if I even need to relight my Rheem Water Heater's Pilot. P.S. She went from not knowing where her water heater was and thinking that it was electric when she found it to relighting its pilot light over a 36 hour period. 🙂
Thank you so much for this video!!!! I was going to have to wait 2+days for an appointment with home service from xcel energy in ❄️ 🥶 winter, and I watched another video on RUclips, but was afraid of blowing up the house, but your video was descriptive about the flame and gave me more confidence to try it one more time. I was able to turn the water heater back on 😊!
Hey Howard just wanted to thank you for making this video and showing me how to relight my water heater. Truth be told I was nervous I would blow the house up, but after watching I went down and got it done. Thank you kindly.
I can’t get mine to turn to the red line at all. I can’t depressed the yellow and it won’t line up plus when I first was looking at it the orange plug popped out 🤦🏻♀️ the only places I can call don’t open till 8
Yep I tried a site that suggested you had to depress the pilot just got turn it to pilot position and mine won’t budge. It’s like it’s set to on, hot and very hot but won’t turn to off or pilot and I don’t want to push it or break something. What a bummer
Longshot, but my knob WILL NOT turn to off or to pilot. Same assembly. Called rheem and they told me i need to replace it, 2 day shipping so wondering if anyone else had this issue. I cant even try to get the pilot light going because i cant turn it
Mine also won’t turn to align to the red marker. I’ve never messed with one before so I’m not sure what’s its normal is but it didn’t respond like his did and sounds oddly like yours damn it!
@jewdd1989 there is a faulty sensor on this assembly. Disconnect the sensor on the copper thermocouple and you'll be able to turn it! Took me days to figure it out and ended up breaking the whole assembly and having to replace it, but didn't have to replace the pilot knob. I'll link a video with the sensor I'm talking about
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My friend had cool water for showers for 2 1/2 years. I recommended that she adjust the temperature setting on her water heater. She tried that but somehow caused the pilot light to go off. That night she had no warm water. She called at 11:00 PM to "thank" me for my recommendation. She then sent photos and I saw that she had a 2018 Rheem Gas Water Heater with Natural Gas. She then tried to follow the directions on the side of the Water Heater but it wasn't clear just what plate had to be removed.
She had also asked for advice via Facebook and a guy with whom she had attended HS sent a link to your video. She followed your instructions. She needed to try lighting a second time but that was a charm. She set it to Hot and she can now have warm showers. You saved her landlord a bunch of money. Thank you for an excellent video. It will help me if I even need to relight my Rheem Water Heater's Pilot.
P.S. She went from not knowing where her water heater was and thinking that it was electric when she found it to relighting its pilot light over a 36 hour period. 🙂
Thank you so much for this video!!!! I was going to have to wait 2+days for an appointment with home service from xcel energy in ❄️ 🥶 winter, and I watched another video on RUclips, but was afraid of blowing up the house, but your video was descriptive about the flame and gave me more confidence to try it one more time. I was able to turn the water heater back on 😊!
Hey Howard just wanted to thank you for making this video and showing me how to relight my water heater. Truth be told I was nervous I would blow the house up, but after watching I went down and got it done. Thank you kindly.
Did your house blow up yet?
Thanks for posting this video. Saved me a callout charge!
Thank you so very much! I was terrified to do this but I followed your directions and the hot water is back! Thanks angain💌
me too, i was sure i was gonna blow the thing up but its heating water as i sit here--thanks a lot!
Great work
That worked !Thanks!
Thank you so much 😊
My water tank still will not give me a flame
I can’t get mine to turn to the red line at all. I can’t depressed the yellow and it won’t line up plus when I first was looking at it the orange plug popped out 🤦🏻♀️ the only places I can call don’t open till 8
Yep I tried a site that suggested you had to depress the pilot just got turn it to pilot position and mine won’t budge. It’s like it’s set to on, hot and very hot but won’t turn to off or pilot and I don’t want to push it or break something. What a bummer
No spark so hot water thank shot?
Longshot, but my knob WILL NOT turn to off or to pilot. Same assembly. Called rheem and they told me i need to replace it, 2 day shipping so wondering if anyone else had this issue. I cant even try to get the pilot light going because i cant turn it
Mine also won’t turn to align to the red marker. I’ve never messed with one before so I’m not sure what’s its normal is but it didn’t respond like his did and sounds oddly like yours damn it!
@jewdd1989 there is a faulty sensor on this assembly. Disconnect the sensor on the copper thermocouple and you'll be able to turn it! Took me days to figure it out and ended up breaking the whole assembly and having to replace it, but didn't have to replace the pilot knob. I'll link a video with the sensor I'm talking about
@@jewdd1989 ruclips.net/video/3kOGhJwQTl8/видео.htmlsi=zU6ppcfNAABQ_CVk
@@jewdd1989 let me know if it works! I'm excited to share something I figured out lol