New water heater keeps having "air".

[Sumboodie]

Put a new water heater this spring.

It's a ~50 gallon indirect water heater. Bradford White.
It's a tank with a coil inside, boiler water in the coil, domestic water the tank.
BoilerMate is another well known brand.

It worked perfectly fine for a month or so, then I started noticing a little bit of air in the hot water line.

It's worse when water isn't used for a while.
It spits and sputters a bit almost like air got in. Nothing severe at this point, but I'm concerned, as it's not normal.

My old water heater never did this. It was the same unit, just this tank is a bit taller and skinnier (they redid their lineup)

Only thing I can guess is the anode rod is disintegrating and releasing some gas?

The hot water doesn't smell or taste strange.

I'm on a well and have a water softener if that matters.

 

[fitter30]

Did u pipe it like it shows in the manual? Have u contacted amtrol? Take a few pics.

 

[HoosierBuddy]

The only things I can come up with are it is air that was left in there from when you had the system unpressurized OR it's air entering at the well pump and getting pressurized into the system.

I can't imagine a situation where the anode would give off enough H2 to be noticeable.

Obviously, once water is pressurized...air can't leak into the pressurized portion of the pipe. It would have to be coming in through the pump. Then it would be more noticeable on the hot side, because any cold air bubbles would expand when heated up in the water heater.

 

[Sumboodie]

The only things I can come up with are it is air that was left in there from when you had the system unpressurized OR it's air entering at the well pump and getting pressurized into the system.

I can't imagine a situation where the anode would give off enough H2 to be noticeable.

Obviously, once water is pressurized...air can't leak into the pressurized portion of the pipe. It would have to be coming in through the pump. Then it would be more noticeable on the hot side, because any cold air bubbles would expand when heated up in the water heater.

The well supplies 13 or 14 houses.

 

[Sumboodie]

Did u pipe it like it shows in the manual? Have u contacted amtrol? Take a few pics.

Amtrol?

It's a Bradford White

 

[firstyearchevelle]

I had this happen wit a new A. O. Smith water heater, hot water would burp after being off for a bit. Called their help line and after being on hold and talking to a few people that were no help at all, finally got an older tech that I explained the problem to. They sent out a new anode rod and that fixed the problem.

 

[honda1998civic]

Gas-X relieves gas fast.

 

[gmcgeo]

I have seen it happen where "well fed systems" can introduce air into the tank along with sediment at the bottom trapping the air and accumulating

It can happen, however not sure that's going on in your case

 

[kj_mustang]

Air is coming into the water supply line somewhere. Since you said the well supplies multiple houses it could be anywhere. Have you noticed the water pressure being lower?

 

[Sumboodie]

Air is coming into the water supply line somewhere. Since you said the well supplies multiple houses it could be anywhere. Have you noticed the water pressure being lower?

No, but I have a 20 gallon pressure tank and a boost pump.

Just an issue with hot water too.