How to relight a water heater pilot light

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To light the pilot on your water heater
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just for reference instruction should be
right here on the water heater itself
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but a lot of times it's just
nice to watch somebody do it instead of
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trying to figure out what knobs are what.
So we're going to take this cover off
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which you just pinch.
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And there's this little window, you
look in there
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that's where you would see the flame
there's nothing in there.
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You cant see any fire so
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no its not lit. Again this is already in
the off position
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and this dial is the
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temperature setting for the water heater
and that's on the lowest
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setting there. This pipe that comes out of it
is the gas pipe
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and here there's a quarter turn ball
valve. If the valve
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handle is perpendicular to the pipe then
it's off.
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If this was gone that way then there's a
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gas able to flow through the pipe.
This is also
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how water pipes work too. As far as
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perpendicular goes. Okay so
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we know this is off, it's been off for
a while.
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If this isnt in the off position you're
gonna want to wait
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at least five minutes for any gas that's
been building up
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to clear out. You don't want any explosions
when you light this.
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and the other thing to do is to smell
around
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and get a little a low and close to this. If
you smell gas
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anywhere near here, you
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shut it off and and let the gas clear
open a window
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and if you need to, call for help, call
service guy
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If you have a gas leak, don't ever
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light anything like this.
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So again if you smell gas don't light it.
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First thing you want to do is to turn
this knob to the pilot position
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now if you look up here, it says OFF, PILOT,
ON
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so the pilot position is there
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and you see this little notch
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it's hard to see from here and there's
little notch
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That allows you to push this button down
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so we're going to get this sorted this
again is in the lowest setting
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so I'm going to turn on the gas here and
that's allowing gas to flow. I'm going to
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hold down this button here. That's
letting gas go, and then I'm gonna hit
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this
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little striker button. And that should
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ignight. There it goes first. You saw that
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as soon as I push this button here while
I'm holding this down. You want to hold
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this button down for about a minute
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Once
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you waited about a minute you can let
go
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and make sure that that's still on. If it is
still lit
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like it is, then you
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can now turn this into the on position.
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You can turn this up to
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whatever temperature setting you like, and put your cover back on.
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That's basically it.
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Let's say you are going to
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turn it off:
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it's really easy again. You can turn this
down
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shut your gas valve off. Always shut this
off if your gonna turn this off
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and then you turn this dial back to the
off position
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and you're done so anyway I hope that
helped.
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