Posted by Joe on December 30, 1999 at 11:36:14:

The plumber who installed our new Kenmore 40-gallon 12-year gas water heater unintentionally reversed the hot and cold water lines. (He simply duplicated the incorrect connections of the old heater without following the lines back to trace which was hot and cold.) When I noticed this, he returned and fixed it by taking the dip tube out of the cold inlet and placing it in the hot outlet. In other words, he left the plumbing as is and reversed the heater's internal flow. Does this sound reasonable? Assuming the heater's internal container is uniform and symmetrical, it sounds plausible. The only downside I can see is that the turnoff valve remains on the hot outlet side, not the cold inlet side.

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