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How To Light A Gas Water Heater Pilot Light

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hi I'm Shannon from host improvements
00:00:02.149 00:00:02.159 comm and again I just want to show you a
00:00:05.210 00:00:05.220 quick videos video going along with all
00:00:08.150 00:00:08.160 our water heater videos and today we're
00:00:10.280 00:00:10.290 going to look at relighting your water
00:00:12.020 00:00:12.030 here so we've got a couple different
00:00:13.970 00:00:13.980 styles to look at one is where the
00:00:16.730 00:00:16.740 there's an actual igniter built right
00:00:18.590 00:00:18.600 into the gas valve itself and the other
00:00:21.800 00:00:21.810 one is where you need to use a an actual
00:00:25.099 00:00:25.109 like a barbecue lighter to light it so
00:00:26.870 00:00:26.880 first one we're going to look at right
00:00:28.670 00:00:28.680 here and we've got a newer water heater
00:00:31.429 00:00:31.439 and it's got this pessoal I think they
00:00:37.670 00:00:37.680 call it pestle or ignition switch or
00:00:40.700 00:00:40.710 whatever they've got built right in here
00:00:42.110 00:00:42.120 basically it's a spark plug is what it
00:00:43.639 00:00:43.649 is but so we're going to take off this
00:00:45.889 00:00:45.899 cover and you're going to have a little
00:00:48.500 00:00:48.510 seeing viewing glass down here usually
00:00:51.080 00:00:51.090 on this on newer styles where you could
00:00:53.450 00:00:53.460 once you look back in there and the
00:00:55.160 00:00:55.170 pilot lights going you'll see a flame if
00:00:58.700 00:00:58.710 your been having trouble with your water
00:01:01.790 00:01:01.800 heater it's blowing out or whatever you
00:01:05.240 00:01:05.250 might want to check your that your
00:01:06.469 00:01:06.479 thermocouple is working properly and I
00:01:08.270 00:01:08.280 do have a video showing you how to
00:01:09.530 00:01:09.540 change that if it's faulty and if not
00:01:12.859 00:01:12.869 and you want to relight them the water
00:01:14.840 00:01:14.850 heater I would recommend that you leave
00:01:16.580 00:01:16.590 like turn off your valve here from the
00:01:19.310 00:01:19.320 on wherever the on position is pass the
00:01:21.710 00:01:21.720 pilot and over to off so that's turning
00:01:24.469 00:01:24.479 off the gas coming into the valve and
00:01:27.429 00:01:27.439 let it sit for about five minutes or so
00:01:29.929 00:01:29.939 just make sure any excess gas that was
00:01:32.600 00:01:32.610 inside the chamber is up dissipated and
00:01:35.660 00:01:35.670 as I'm going to cause any problems so
00:01:37.850 00:01:37.860 then when you're ready to light you've
00:01:39.109 00:01:39.119 got the the valve in the off position
00:01:41.780 00:01:41.790 you're going to low your lower your heat
00:01:44.090 00:01:44.100 rate down to loaf basically as low as
00:01:46.280 00:01:46.290 it'll go
00:01:46.840 00:01:46.850 then what you want to do is we're going
00:01:49.100 00:01:49.110 to turn this knob you can see on this
00:01:51.050 00:01:51.060 one there's an arrow at the top and you
00:01:53.389 00:01:53.399 want to turn it over so it's pointing
00:01:54.950 00:01:54.960 towards the pilot description and then
00:01:57.740 00:01:57.750 when it's in that position it'll
00:01:58.910 00:01:58.920 actually the novel push down and what
00:02:01.730 00:02:01.740 that does is it's it's letting a burst
00:02:03.530 00:02:03.540 of gas through so once once you push
00:02:05.870 00:02:05.880 that down we're going to push the
00:02:07.730 00:02:07.740 igniter button and we should get flame
00:02:10.969 00:02:10.979 down below
00:02:12.490 00:02:12.500 so here I go with this I'm in the pilot
00:02:16.450 00:02:16.460 position I'm ready to push it down and
00:02:17.980 00:02:17.990 I'm ready to push the green so I'll do
00:02:21.220 00:02:21.230 that and that and it should have lived
00:02:31.699 00:02:31.709 okay so once once it's lit down there
00:02:34.759 00:02:34.769 you want to keep pushing this knob down
00:02:36.740 00:02:36.750 for usually about thirty seconds so just
00:02:40.300 00:02:40.310 hold it down in the pilot position be
00:02:44.300 00:02:44.310 sure that your pilot did lighten it's
00:02:46.220 00:02:46.230 burning
00:02:46.729 00:02:46.739 once thirty seconds has gone by then
00:02:49.550 00:02:49.560 you'll just release this knob so it pops
00:02:51.530 00:02:51.540 back up and then turn it right to the on
00:02:54.500 00:02:54.510 position make sure you do that you don't
00:02:56.690 00:02:56.700 want to leave it in pilot it has to go
00:02:58.099 00:02:58.109 to on if you let go that and it doesn't
00:03:02.330 00:03:02.340 pop back up then just turn everything to
00:03:04.909 00:03:04.919 off wait five or so minutes again and
00:03:07.159 00:03:07.169 then retry it okay so we've got it to
00:03:09.710 00:03:09.720 the on position and we know it's burning
00:03:12.379 00:03:12.389 down below now you just want to turn
00:03:14.360 00:03:14.370 your water heater to whatever heat
00:03:16.670 00:03:16.680 setting that you want it and should be
00:03:19.339 00:03:19.349 good to go just recheck it in a couple
00:03:21.920 00:03:21.930 minutes to make sure it stayed burning
00:03:23.209 00:03:23.219 so now we're going to show you the other
00:03:24.949 00:03:24.959 little bit older style okay so here we
00:03:28.879 00:03:28.889 are in a little bit different style
00:03:31.220 00:03:31.230 where we've got actually used like a
00:03:33.129 00:03:33.139 barbecue lighter sort of deal to light
00:03:36.349 00:03:36.359 the gas and this would be the same
00:03:39.469 00:03:39.479 whether it's AG natural gas or propane
00:03:41.059 00:03:41.069 water heater okay so this one here get
00:03:46.309 00:03:46.319 this cover off I can somehow battled it
00:03:55.699 00:03:55.709 inside that's got another door down here
00:04:02.449 00:04:02.459 I think though maybe enough view there
00:04:04.729 00:04:04.739 so you can see back in there where the
00:04:06.860 00:04:06.870 bird were the where it should light and
00:04:08.990 00:04:09.000 everything so the the process is really
00:04:11.420 00:04:11.430 the same as far as the switch up here is
00:04:14.420 00:04:14.430 and waiting for a few minutes once it's
00:04:16.460 00:04:16.470 been burning and stuff so I'm going to
00:04:18.529 00:04:18.539 turn it to pilot push it down I'm going
00:04:21.560 00:04:21.570 to be ready down there with the lighter
00:04:23.149 00:04:23.159 hopefully you're going to be able to see
00:04:25.010 00:04:25.020 what I'm kind of doing at all my head
00:04:27.050 00:04:27.060 will be in the way or what but so we'll
00:04:29.839 00:04:29.849 do our best here to get this in pretty
00:04:32.029 00:04:32.039 tight quarters okay so here we go
00:04:36.060 00:04:36.070 I'm going to actually light the lighter
00:04:38.170 00:04:38.180 before I push the pilot down so I'll get
00:04:49.090 00:04:49.100 that out of there so you can see so I
00:04:53.140 00:04:53.150 went right over where the thermocouple
00:04:55.060 00:04:55.070 and should be a small line the pilot
00:04:59.110 00:04:59.120 line goes to where you're headed and
00:05:02.110 00:05:02.120 holding that down there for three
00:05:03.880 00:05:03.890 seconds or so and then once thirty
00:05:08.950 00:05:08.960 seconds is up I can release it turn it
00:05:13.390 00:05:13.400 to the on position and then I can dial
00:05:15.910 00:05:15.920 up my my temperature which we turn down
00:05:19.860 00:05:19.870 just like so and then if the water was
00:05:22.930 00:05:22.940 cold it would actually ignite and
00:05:24.430 00:05:24.440 actually if I turn this up see they're
00:05:28.080 00:05:28.090 completely ignites and it's ready to go
00:05:30.970 00:05:30.980 now preferably we'd have all the doors
00:05:32.980 00:05:32.990 closed on everything but that was just
00:05:35.470 00:05:35.480 to show you okay so I'm just going to
00:05:38.530 00:05:38.540 turn that back down to the temperature
00:05:39.970 00:05:39.980 we usually would have and that's that's
00:05:42.790 00:05:42.800 really what you need to know on the two
00:05:45.160 00:05:45.170 different styles really those are the
00:05:46.750 00:05:46.760 two you should come across but the main
00:05:49.060 00:05:49.070 thing is you're not going to be able to
00:05:50.350 00:05:50.360 deal with a cigarette lighter you're
00:05:51.640 00:05:51.650 going to need something longer that you
00:05:52.870 00:05:52.880 can reach rate in there with some burn
00:05:54.550 00:05:54.560 your hand off so so I hope hope that was
00:05:57.250 00:05:57.260 helpful and I'm just going to get out of
00:06:02.140 00:06:02.150 this corner we'll do a bit of wrap-up
00:06:03.730 00:06:03.740 and that'll be it okay so that should
00:06:06.070 00:06:06.080 show you really how to light the two
00:06:07.330 00:06:07.340 different styles of gas or propane
00:06:09.100 00:06:09.110 furnaces really that's the basics on
00:06:12.010 00:06:12.020 either style so shouldn't be anything
00:06:13.960 00:06:13.970 too different from that hopefully it
00:06:16.660 00:06:16.670 helped you out on figuring out what you
00:06:19.030 00:06:19.040 had to do with yours if you liked what
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