Are you having smelly water coming out of your shower? You must have a whole lot of accumulated hydrogen sulfide in your water heater, then.
Let’s spell it out in English. Hydrogen sulfide is the gas that is the result of the combination of the minerals present in hard water with the aluminum anodes in your water heater. This gas is what’s responsible for the rotten egg odor that comes out of your shower. Obviously, you wouldn’t want to come out of the shower smelling like rotten egg instead of that citrusy shower gel you bought from the mall.
You don’t have to suck it up every time you go into the shower, though. At the first whiff of trouble, you can immediately get started on getting a quick fix for it. There are several methods that you can do, some of which would require the help of a professional.
First, on what you can do by yourself, to prevent the accumulation of the hydrogen sulfide in your water heater, the simple solution for it is to constantly use the heater. Inactivity or lack of use is what allows for the accumulation, which results to the odor. If you make it a point to turn on the heater regularly, then you basically “air out” heater, thereby keeping that resulting odor at bay.
If in case it’s too late for that, and the odor has already hit a lethal pitch, you can get someone to replace the anode rods of your water heater, give it a brand new start, a clean slate, so to speak. Another is for you to schedule a yearly “flushing” of your water tank, so that you can make sure that you get rid of the calcium sediment clinging to the tank’s bottom.
Now that you know how you can prevent and address the problem of smelly water, it is up to you to get working on it. You don’t want to smell like a rotten egg, thats for sure.