Not Enough Hot Water? Here's Why and A Solution

Is your hot water system not producing enough hot water? Here's why and how to fix it.

Do you feel the water flow of your hot water system has been slowly diminishing?

It is a sign that you need to clean the filter on your #ContinuousFlowHotWaterSystem. The inline filter needs to be serviced occasionally.

And the good news is, you can do this yourself! All you need is a screwdriver.

In this video, we will show you where the filter is located (0:25) and what they look like. Whether you have a Thermann (0:36) or Rinnai (0:42), we get them all covered.

We'll explain how to remove the filter (0:45), how to clean them (1:26), and how to put it back on (1:57).

Step by step. Quick and easy. Get on it now.

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[aladdinwaiwai]

Hi Ben, May i ask if it is normal that continuous flow hot water system takes 30 sec or a minute or so to have luke warm hot water out? and take another approximately 5 minutes to have very hot water? Thanks Vic

[EliasAnto]

You’re a life saver! For years my hot water has been piss-weak and all this time I thought it was just a crappy system. We’ve just put up with it. Turns out the filter was ridiculously clogged. Gave it a clean and now it’s like we’ve got a new hot water system 😄😁
Thank you 🙏

[kymholbrook]

One of the best and easiest to understand DIY clips I have seen.

Good job.

[nightkids]

thanks legend, i dug up and bent my water mains, have been dealing with very low pressure for a few weeks now. ended up being clogged filters everywhere from the crud inside the old pipes - didnt know my hot water system had a filter too, saved me big time. cheers!

[lcervantes]

Greetings from Mexico. Beautiful on spot explanation.

[jonhardiman]

Great video Ben. 8 years on still fixing problems ✅

[lifeofmle]

2 mins of great and helpful info. Tried this and was able to have hot water again

[cathchris]

Thanks Ben, Its Sunday night and your video saved us a lot of worry and money too! Blessings to you.

[stephensmith]

im going to do that right now, i suspected a clogged filter and now you confirmed it. thqnks so much a great tip. cheers

[MartyMoriarty]

Sheer Genius! My house in Adelaide Hills runs on rainwater heater not even 1 year old! Will now put an inline filter also. If only you were an Adelaide plumber!!! Many thanks for posting Bro.

[mistyucps]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. This was far more informative than rinnai‘s own troubleshooting on their website. Pressure in the tap is restored.

[mickseager]

OMG it worked!!! Thank you so much 😎😎👌👌🙏🙏

[amilawickramasinghe]

awesome video, cleaning this filter fixed my sporadic hot water temperature fluctuations. I initially thought my temp control valve is not functioning properly but turns out to be the inlet filter is clogged with scaling causing the burner to cut out sporadically due to not enough water coming in.

[meagangooch]

Thanks a bunch, I watched your tutorial and managed to fix our hot water problem 😂😊

[stevenchillmaid]

Great video, fixed my issue, I wasn’t aware of the filer or if I had one where it was located, it took longer to watch the video than it did to fix issue big shout out mate thanks so much champ

[joelbryant]

Thanks very much, probably saved me $300

[TonyPuryer]

Great video, clear instructions and well filmed and produced. Saved me calling a plumber out and a few hundred cash. I guess the neg votes are from unemployed plumbers who are only skilled at cleaning filters and are upset you have shared their secret with everyone. Thanks for the video, much appreciated.

[shornakumar]

Thanks Ben, this advise helped us fix the unit at our friends place. Cheers

[mibarweb]

Youre the man thanks saved me hundreds and saved me from sponge bathing the misses.

[marfa_rfa]

HI sorry, 1:52 did you say tap blue? tap glue? what is that? thank you!