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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
We had the same thing over the holidays with lots of guests and the cold weather. It was definitely the air intake but we couldn't see any clogs so we removed the air intake pipe from the hot water tank and just pulled air from the house. Once it warms up we will reconnect the air intake.
As far as I can tell the only drawback is that the house becomes less efficient with negative pressure pulling cold air into the house.
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I did the same thing. Disconnected the air intake in the basement and all of a sudden the hot water tank starts working. Not sure how unsafe the this is though.
I’ve cleaned out the air intake multiple times but a day or so later had the same problem every time.
Could keep cleaning the intake pipe but would love to know what’s actually happening in there to get a more permanent solution.