No Hot Water? Easily Reset Your Electric Water Heater 

Thank you so much!!!!!!! As a single woman who has a tricky landlord situation right now, this just empowered me to crawl under my house (yikes), reset the water heater (I heard the click immediately!), and now I have hot water!!!! I feel so proud that I fixed this myself and didn’t have to rely on a handyman or call my landlord. ❤🎉

My kids were impressed that their mom got the hot water heater working again. Thank you!!

Hey this helped me while wife and I were visiting my MIL and she just had a water heater put in and it did this after draining it for winter. The button was flush mounted and well protected against any other wires etc so was easy to do. Thanks so much.

This just saved me! They installed a new water meter in my house and a few hours later I noticed there was no hot water! Thanks man!

Great video, Eddie! Much appreciated!

Thank for the help it was exactly what you described. The reset clicked immediately. Just waiting the 2hrs. for hot water.

Fixed my heater cause of this thanks man

Great video. Just had to use this in a rental property, brand new water heater I installed the day before and would never think I had to reset it . Definitely gained a sub from me

Thank you for ur help! I appreciate ur making this video

This fixed it for me. Thank you very much.

Thanks for sharing!! My hot water is back on after following your directions!! Thanks again!!

You are the GOAT! It worked

Thanks a lot for your help

This has performed exactly as desired ru-vid.comUgkx8G49mV71sAzUl9shXyLW-r3XgHH9EVh1 . Basically, instant hot water instead of waiting up to two minutes as it was before. I have had this installed almost exactly one year now and just replaced the anode which is pictured. I pulled it out at six months and cleaned the heating element and removed debris. I would recommend a cleaning every six months and an anode replacement yearly. A mild citric acid and water solution soak really helps clean the heating element and tank. It must be fully disassembled to do the cleaning and that is not difficult but could have been made easier with a couple of design changes but no big deal.

Thank you much for this videotaped!!!!!! Rest button - Done!❤

thank you for the helpful video!

Thanks very useful !

Thanks Eddie!

My breaker box has nothing labeled (so annoyed), can I just turn off all the power in the house to be on the safe side?

Thank you 😊

Heard the click and water sounds afterwards hopefully that fixed the issue thanks for the video.

Hi, hope you got a minute to read this please Just wanted to know why the reset button on that water heater is so different to mine? I have a Thermann 250thmb136 Manufactured 2016 it has 258 storage capacity and 250L hot water delivery Thought I also mention that I'm in (Australia 🇦🇺) I dont have a bloody clue about this so excuse me if it's too much or not enough info. I'm not a happy camper at the moment I got no hot water it's freezing down here in Oz So watched your video and seen the red reset button and spun out. Mine has a tiny little hole ( meaning I had to use a bloody toothpick mate to push it in ) I hope it works or I'm looking at 1800 for a new one 😭 & can't afford it. When u get a moment could you please let me know if that's normal size for that brand. Thanks mate I appreciate it

Worked!!

I just replaced my hotwater heater today with an ao smith waterheater. I followed instructions filled take with water and ran hotwater faucet to get the air out. Wired the waterheater then cut the power on. No hot water after 2 hours. Press the reset button still no hot water. Then turned the temperature up to 150 still no hot water. Any suggestions?

@Eddie Helps Homeowners.....My bottom element was bad,so I replaced both elements and thermostats.....My electric water heater never tripped my circuit breaker nor have I ever changed the temperature in the 2yrs I've been living here.Why all of a sudden it's doing the samething after replacing the elements and thermostats?

Great video. You make us look good when pretending we know what we are doing out here. ❤

Thank you.

How long does it take to turn on after reset?

Subbed and thank you😊

I have a hot water heater electrical. I'm assuming that if I have 220v at the elements that there is power going to elements and should have hot water. Correct? I can tell the power is going through the element as I have the left wire on the left screw of an element and I remove the right wire. Test, power at left screw / wire and the screw on the right is hot when wire is off showing that the power is going through the element. Why then do I still have no hot water? Can current flow through the elements and not heat the water? ie..bad element? Or is the continuity always broken on a bad element? Also....if I turn the water temp to lowest setting and that setting is below the current water temp...does that shut power off to the elements where I won't detect power at the element, then when thermostat is turned up to a higher water temp position, I should hear a click, and that is power being sent to elements? Corect?

Good job

Thanks

Breaker started tripping, so I had an electrician run tests on the water heater. After running the tests on the upper/lower elements and thermostats, only the lower thermostat showed as failed. I replaced it, but the breaker tripped again after about 6 minutes. While the tank was still drained, I replaced the lower element, even though the one in the tank looked and tested good, and also replaced the anode rod. Filled up the tank and the breaker tripped again after 5-6 minutes. Shall I just go ahead and replace the upper thermostat and element, or could there be a problem someplace else?

Thank you so much brother it’s work I appreciate you so much❤u are man

I appreciate it

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So I'm just curious, I have an electric 50-gallon AO Smith heater, I replaced both thermostats and both elements but even after that, the heater doesn't seem to be turning on, I also made sure that the breakers weren't tripping.

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I moved in to a new apt and I had turn the water on and it was super stinky how do I fix this ?

We have been dealing with scalding water at time, as well as hot water running out fast, last night we came home to no hot water at all. Should I do the reset? Or should I have someone come in to replace the elements and thermostats?

the reset button does't do anything for me, I tested both legs and I'm getting power from the black and power from the red wire at both the thermostat and the element top, is that a faulty thermostat?

Im getting electricity to the top wires but not the bottom wires. Help!(side mounted unit)

I just bough a NEW water heater and it’s pulling tremendous amount of electricity and no hot water coming out at all. Where should I look first? Please Help!!!!!!

What if there's no click when I press the button? Am I supposed to hear the heater come on after I press the reset button? I felt no click, and I hear nothing happening. But since it's an electric, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to hear something as we did on our gas ones before we moved into this place. I can't seem to find the answers I need in this regard anywhere, and this is a very bad time for it to go out. :(

What if there is no click when I push the reset? No hot water after I pushed.

I use a wooden dowel to push that reset button, just in case.

Why do I have to wait a couple of hours to get the hot water?

Did all the steps and I can’t hear anything running or starting

Thanks for the vid. Maybe get a microphone or speak directly into the camera. Could not hear when you were speaking to your water heater. I also find it crazy how so many videos online, people will say its 90 percent the elements.. and then I hear you say its majority the thermostat. Crazy.

Terrible volume, can barely hear you talking and when you turn sideways, nothing.

Sorry, but you take over 4 minutes to say what could be said in about 20 seconds. And constantly repeating things.

My water heater shares a breaker with my well pump 🥲 how do i turn my electric water heater off manually so my water pump can fill it without frying the elements?