I also liked the deadpan delivery when he was talking about the house that got condemned after its water heater blew through the roof: "A couple of people were injured. Killed a dog."
When I was a youngster, maybe 12-13 years old (many years ago), we were all awoken in the middle of the night by a load bang. It wasn't the water heater exploding, but only by dumb luck and a full bladder. In our basement, our 80 gal, (yes 80 gal) electric water heater was in the midst of a massive failure. My Dad had capped off the pressure relief pipe, a few days earlier, because water kept leaking out. The plan was to replace the tank on the weekend. We didn't make it to the weekend. Afterward, we all figured the pressure relief kept activating because the thermostat was failing. The only thing that prevented a massive explosion/launch was a small piece of plastic pipe connecting the toilet to the cold water line and my Dad needing to pee in the middle of the night. When he flushed, he heard a loud whooshing sound, followed almost immediately by that little piece of pipe bursting and steam rushing out under very high pressure. Keep in mind, this was a COLD water pipe connection! Instinctively, he went and opened the cold and hot water faucets at the sink and steam rushed out of each. He then opened the faucets in the tub and kitchen sink with the same result. My parents' bedroom was downstairs and we kids (4 of us) slept upstairs. By the time we ran downstairs, the whole house was already filling with steam and forming a cloud at the ceiling that kept building lower and lower (and had a really odd smell). In the meantime, my Dad had run down to the basement to see what was going on. He said, in the darkness, he could see a little bit of an orange glow on the outside of the water tank. He immediately cut the breaker to the tank. Eventually, cold water started coming out of the cold tap, but the hot tap kept venting steam for what must have been at least 15 minutes, maybe it was longer. When it was all over, the whole house, upstairs and down was filled with so much steam you could barely see where you were going. It was so incredibly surreal and has forever been seared (or steamed) into my memory. If it hadn't been for that little plastic pipe and nature's call in the middle of the night, I hate to think of what would have happened. That was a huge water tank and had become super-heated enough to turn the cold water lines to steam as well. Don't mess around with water heater safety devices. If one fails, replace the tank immediately.
I fully knew what was going to happen with that boiler since saw the episode as a child… but until today I can’t stop watching it over and over again with a grin.
I remember watching Adam on Tested talking about how that is still his favorite explosion made me wanna find this episode again. The sound, the power, the giant steam cloud and the fact that thing stayed airborne for several seconds was peak mythbusters imo. That and the one were they filled a concrete mixer with c4 and vaporized the truck.
@@Squigdude13 Are we certain it was C-4? I think they only used that in the one experiment where they were testing if a stick of dynamite was a suitable way to remove the dried concrete from a cement truck, using some C-4 as a stand-in for TNT. Whereas for the times they obliterated them, like you're referring to, I'm _fairly_ certain they used ANFO, triggered by Det Cord. (90% sure at least)
The peak of Mythbusters, IMO. Lots of great episodes after, but I don't feel anything made it to the peak that this episode hit. I guess minus a couple revisited myths.
45:15: Gotta love how all the chaos of this moment is punctuated by the almost comical 'THUNK' of the heater landing a few seconds later. Absolutely priceless.👌
Yeah... Technically, an aneurysm is bleeding caused by a weakened vein rupturing, and to my knowledge doesn't have anything to do with clots directly, but still... It hits dangerously close to home.
Euugghh...honestly I'm just gonna skip over that part of the episode. I'm sorry it's too painful. I can't picture that stuff in my head without cringing.
Props to the team for recognizing the danger with that small water heater, and moving it somewhere else... even without it exploding in that container.
The scary thing is thinking about what would have happened if it did blow up in the bunker. Seeing what happens when they blow, it would have been pretty catastrophic inside that container.
@@thelosef749 Nah... your overstating it. It would've been a loud bang, of course, but nothing more than a huge bump in the container. @thelosef... are you, by any chance, scared about the environment too... I mean; are you a gen Z? ... and I'm asking you this genuinely: Are you generally scared of things happening in the World right now?
@@anzaca1 "Being scared about the environment is reasonable." No, it is really not. I'm a human being, fairly intelligent... and I'm not scared about it. Neither is my child at 14, because I didn't instill this alarmism into him. This is THE worst thing about the current generation.... EVEN worse than Covid 19.... the neo Marxist's instilling fear into every child on the planet, that the western World are destroyers. I'm from Denmark. We have a population of about 6 MILLION people. China and India have populations of about 3 BILLION people, combined... and growing with the same amount as our entire population every single YEAR.... those two countries ALONE!... and the Danish leftists want us to stop eating meat... as if we somehow _matter_ in that equation. I, for one.... wil NOT FUCKING ADHERE to that leftist neo Marxist doctrine.... Fuck Greta !
You heard about this episode as a kid? The first episode of this was in 2005 when I was just under a year old, and this is from season 4. So unless you were a plumber since age 4, I think you're either lying about how long you've been a plumber, or you weren't a kid
@@Lil_Warrior_Princesswow i didnt know that everyone is the same age as you. anyways , say you start plumbing at 18 in 2008, you could've heard about this episode at 15 in 2005, being a "kid". Then plumbing for 16 years to watch it on youtube at 34 in 2024
@@Lil_Warrior_Princessyour first comment was some good trolling but the second comment is lazy and reveals that you're just a character. Try not to break the ruse so early next time
the great thing about this show was that it was just so darn fun to watch . it was much like a mad scientist club put on tv . an i still think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame .
My water heater in my apartment reminds me of this episode every time I walk past it. Some small part of me imagines it launching through my ceiling, the apartment above mine, and the roof of my building, soaring into the air and landing on a car in the parking lot of the restaurant across the street.
33:55 Jeans deliberately are hard to set on fire. The conduct heat very poorly and have a tendency to char rather than catch fire. This is actually what they were originally intended for, as work clothing for people who work around hot things like steam engines.
The Narrator almost always made it better, it was great in an anime called _Kaguya-sama: Love Is War_ , it was great in MythBusters, except for during the Paris Olympics for the US peeps...(and likely many other country's Olympic Broadcast Partners)
Honestly not too surprised it shot skyward rather than just exploding. I've sold and warrantied water heaters for over 11 years, and something like 90-95% of warranty exchanges are from leakages in the bottom of the tank. Part of it is from sediments accumulating at the bottom and rusting out the tank (don't skimp on a water softener and draining your tank every once in a while), but it's also the thinnest section, with little to no insulation or outside sheeting
This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. I had watched the T&P valve work on my parents water hater prior to this episode when it over-pressurized, so it was crazy to see what would have happened had that failed as well.
It's remarkable to see the destructive force of heated water. The MythBusters team certainly did well with making good use of all the spacious area of what was once the Alameda Naval Air Station.
Loy-Lange Box Company in St Louis, Missouri. April 3rd, 2017. A severely corroded pressure vessel failed sending it rocketing through the roof and into a nearby building. 1 worker died, another was injured and 3 bystanders perished when the pressure vessel came back down.
@ It was indeed a pressure vessel, not a water heater. However, pressure vessels like that water heater have a nasty tendency to fail majestically and catastrophically. Water Heaters just tend to be a prettier rocket than most.
I know a guy at work who works on pressure vessels a lot and he told me about this episode. They can certainly be dangerous if they fail without the safeguards
It still tickles me, to this day, that the single greatest force of energy humans have managed to find is still just... Water, Heat and Pressure, working in concert.
Grant wearing skin-tight vinyl pants and a shrink wrapped muffin top is just the kind of weird real Mythbusters fans appreciate. In retrospect, theyre lucky that a sensor failure or leak aborted their small scale water heater failure test in their bunker. That little 6 gal water heater at 400psi could have handily leveled their bunker if it failed catastrophically.
I don't know why, but this just might be my favorite MythBusters episode. There's just something about water pressure being used to propel a projectile that gets to me. (Water rockets are a favorite of my students as well.)
What's impressive is how robust that water tank really is. The pressure had to get well over twice its rated PSI before it failed. Might have been nice to know the peak temperature and pressure inside the "house" when the water heater blew.
@@Kaznil46 I believe most stuff that has a danger factor has a high safety margin, especially for the bridges meant for heavy traffic and to last in the 50-100 years ranges. Even Jets have a safety device with double to triple redundancy to safety margin it. (Boeing's MCAS is an outlier due to Approval Authority missing in action)
Steam/hot water burns are absolutely horrible. I burned myself with boiling engine coolant by opening the radiator cap when my truck overheated. Yes i know it was stupid and i knew better. I had a coolant leak and my truck would overheat every few days. It wasnt technically a radiator cap, it was the cap on the overflow tank. I had opened it numerous times while overheated with no issues but this time was different for some reason. Stopped at a gas station to let it cool off and add water just like i had done nunerous times before. After 20 minutes of cooling off i went to take the cap off and as soon as it unlocked the pressure launched the cap off and a geiser of boiling water and steam rained down on my scalp and bare arms. They were only mild burns but they hurt like hell. I'm a welder/fabricator so im used to burns but boiling water burns ere totally different.
When i was at vocational school my plumbing teacher always spoke about this episode when ever we were doing water heaters and anything that heats water like furnaces/boilers, no valves that can be accidentaly closed and disabling safety features or the heater will go trough the roof or blow out side of the house its in. I will never do this mistake or install anything that the client could fck up and blow up accidentaly. if theres maintanance valve near expansion chamber the handle must be removed so it cant be shut off accidentaly by client, only can be done by repair man/plumber
I remember when the rolled out the water heater during Jamie’s Farewell Tour and the whole theater cheered and he commented that they (Adam and Jamie) never so much cheer for a water heater.
Water is odd, when you think about it. It expands when heated from liquid to gas, like most everything else, but it also expands when chilled from liquid to solid, where most everything else contracts
During hurricane sandy we had 5 duplexes in a row directly next to one another on the same street as our most flooded road in our town burn down at the same time as the water heater exploded
It does that because, unlike other substances that continue to contract as they go from liquid to solid, water molecules spread out and arrange themselves into a nice neat crystalline pattern. That's what forms snowflakes- tiny crystals made up of that pattern.
Probably my favorite myth and slow-mo but also it gave me PTSD, not post but PRE-tramatic Stress Disorder.... I don't trust my water heater anymore and every little ting and pop sound it makes reminds me of that slow-motion footage. Basically this episode made me live in fear everyday.... LoL 😂😂
Remember they had to bypass the safety equipment for this- just make sure your temperature and pressure valve is in good shape, you can manually open it with the handle to make sure it is free flowing. If it really bothers you you can put a new one on with a wrench yourself without a lot of fuss with a big wrench.
Mythbusters uses the infomercial format. Lots of repeating until the program is done. Didn't mind it too much with the waterheater, but the jeans were TGF fast forward.
Well many water heaters today also has a secondary safety feature known as a thermal expansion tank that stops steam from forming in the first place. Its not mandatory though and can most likely fail for the same reason as the T&P valve. A built up of sediment.
love the water heater explosion yet because the inlet and outlet are capped, they in effect just made a steam bomb your home water heater would never do this
Knowing what we know now, it’s kinda scary that they were conducting water heater tests at M5. Could you imagine if they reached failure even on one of those small tanks?
Knowing what we know now, it is interesting they started at the bunker...before moving to more open spaces. I guess they still had the safety features in place...but still!
Remember watching this when it came out, had a respect for water heater safety items despite having to deal with the watery cleanup when they went kaput. But on the jeans, I always wondered if it wasn't some matches in the backpocket or stones and the metal rivets on the jeans causing a fire.
To follow up on this, a Norwegian show did a lot of house myth's on houses slated for demolition. Incl the water heater one. Now granted the heater was on the first floor, and Norwegian houses are a bit sturdier than American houses made cheaply because of chance to be swept away by Tornadoes (as I was told by American construction guy who lived in Tornado alley, moved here to Norway and continued working in the construction biz, before any of you actually'ing patriots start huffin' and puffin', cuz I know you're absolutely raring to go), so the roof didn't go unlike what they said at 47:00, but it deflected to the side and went out the wall, bad enough 🤣
*-SPOILER BLOCKER-* I hate this new UA-cam timed comments feature 🤦♂️ I always remembered the hot water heater one being one of the most spectacularly confirmed myths!
"By the time we're done with this, we'll actually know what we're doing."
A very underrated Jamie line XD
I also liked the deadpan delivery when he was talking about the house that got condemned after its water heater blew through the roof: "A couple of people were injured. Killed a dog."
RIP Grant. He will always be remembered
He picked the quickest way to go... RIP
We miss you Grant. You’re not forgotten
@@jordanbridges He didn't pick it; he was unlucky.
@soundspark is English your second language?
@jordanbridges No, I looked up how he died and it was by horrible luck rather than an accident.
When I was a youngster, maybe 12-13 years old (many years ago), we were all awoken in the middle of the night by a load bang. It wasn't the water heater exploding, but only by dumb luck and a full bladder. In our basement, our 80 gal, (yes 80 gal) electric water heater was in the midst of a massive failure. My Dad had capped off the pressure relief pipe, a few days earlier, because water kept leaking out. The plan was to replace the tank on the weekend. We didn't make it to the weekend. Afterward, we all figured the pressure relief kept activating because the thermostat was failing. The only thing that prevented a massive explosion/launch was a small piece of plastic pipe connecting the toilet to the cold water line and my Dad needing to pee in the middle of the night. When he flushed, he heard a loud whooshing sound, followed almost immediately by that little piece of pipe bursting and steam rushing out under very high pressure. Keep in mind, this was a COLD water pipe connection! Instinctively, he went and opened the cold and hot water faucets at the sink and steam rushed out of each. He then opened the faucets in the tub and kitchen sink with the same result.
My parents' bedroom was downstairs and we kids (4 of us) slept upstairs. By the time we ran downstairs, the whole house was already filling with steam and forming a cloud at the ceiling that kept building lower and lower (and had a really odd smell). In the meantime, my Dad had run down to the basement to see what was going on. He said, in the darkness, he could see a little bit of an orange glow on the outside of the water tank. He immediately cut the breaker to the tank.
Eventually, cold water started coming out of the cold tap, but the hot tap kept venting steam for what must have been at least 15 minutes, maybe it was longer. When it was all over, the whole house, upstairs and down was filled with so much steam you could barely see where you were going. It was so incredibly surreal and has forever been seared (or steamed) into my memory. If it hadn't been for that little plastic pipe and nature's call in the middle of the night, I hate to think of what would have happened. That was a huge water tank and had become super-heated enough to turn the cold water lines to steam as well.
Don't mess around with water heater safety devices. If one fails, replace the tank immediately.
Wow, what a close shave.
I fully knew what was going to happen with that boiler since saw the episode as a child… but until today I can’t stop watching it over and over again with a grin.
Completely unexpected realization of the amount of power available. One of the greatest episodes.
I remember watching Adam on Tested talking about how that is still his favorite explosion made me wanna find this episode again. The sound, the power, the giant steam cloud and the fact that thing stayed airborne for several seconds was peak mythbusters imo. That and the one were they filled a concrete mixer with c4 and vaporized the truck.
@@Squigdude13 Are we certain it was C-4? I think they only used that in the one experiment where they were testing if a stick of dynamite was a suitable way to remove the dried concrete from a cement truck, using some C-4 as a stand-in for TNT.
Whereas for the times they obliterated them, like you're referring to, I'm _fairly_ certain they used ANFO, triggered by Det Cord. (90% sure at least)
The peak of Mythbusters, IMO. Lots of great episodes after, but I don't feel anything made it to the peak that this episode hit. I guess minus a couple revisited myths.
My favorite episode
One of the classic episodes that has just about everything you want out of a Mythbuster's episode.
45:15: Gotta love how all the chaos of this moment is punctuated by the almost comical 'THUNK' of the heater landing a few seconds later. Absolutely priceless.👌
Also hearing Jamie laughing as heartily as Adam was a treat!
For some reason, Grant doing an experience that risks creating blood cloths hurts my heart.
Yeah... Technically, an aneurysm is bleeding caused by a weakened vein rupturing, and to my knowledge doesn't have anything to do with clots directly, but still... It hits dangerously close to home.
Euugghh...honestly I'm just gonna skip over that part of the episode. I'm sorry it's too painful. I can't picture that stuff in my head without cringing.
I think it’s hilarious. Good stuff.
“blood cloths”? Also, I think you meant “experiment” not experience, though I guess that technically works as well.
The grammar in this comment hurts my trust in humanity.
Props to the team for recognizing the danger with that small water heater, and moving it somewhere else... even without it exploding in that container.
The scary thing is thinking about what would have happened if it did blow up in the bunker. Seeing what happens when they blow, it would have been pretty catastrophic inside that container.
@@thelosef749
Nah... your overstating it.
It would've been a loud bang, of course, but nothing more than a huge bump in the container.
@thelosef... are you, by any chance, scared about the environment too... I mean; are you a gen Z?
... and I'm asking you this genuinely: Are you generally scared of things happening in the World right now?
@@timholstpetersen79 Being scared about the environment is reasonable.
@@anzaca1
"Being scared about the environment is reasonable."
No, it is really not.
I'm a human being, fairly intelligent... and I'm not scared about it. Neither is my child at 14, because I didn't instill this alarmism into him.
This is THE worst thing about the current generation.... EVEN worse than Covid 19.... the neo Marxist's instilling fear into every child on the planet, that the western World are destroyers.
I'm from Denmark. We have a population of about 6 MILLION people.
China and India have populations of about 3 BILLION people, combined... and growing with the same amount as our entire population every single YEAR.... those two countries ALONE!... and the Danish leftists want us to stop eating meat... as if we somehow _matter_ in that equation.
I, for one.... wil NOT FUCKING ADHERE to that leftist neo Marxist doctrine.... Fuck Greta !
@@anzaca1 Not to mention the two wars currently happening.
The T&P valve on my water heater actually prevented the tank from exploding when the thermostat stuck on!!!!! This is serious stuff.
Im 16 years in as a plumber
Heard about this episode as a kid. Now its my turn to watch this!
You heard about this episode as a kid? The first episode of this was in 2005 when I was just under a year old, and this is from season 4. So unless you were a plumber since age 4, I think you're either lying about how long you've been a plumber, or you weren't a kid
@@Lil_Warrior_Princesswow i didnt know that everyone is the same age as you. anyways , say you start plumbing at 18 in 2008, you could've heard about this episode at 15 in 2005, being a "kid". Then plumbing for 16 years to watch it on youtube at 34 in 2024
@@TheBubbanot wanna do something other than vomit words?
@@Lil_Warrior_Princess be happy!
@@Lil_Warrior_Princessyour first comment was some good trolling but the second comment is lazy and reveals that you're just a character. Try not to break the ruse so early next time
the great thing about this show was that it was just so darn fun to watch . it was much like a mad scientist club put on tv . an i still think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame .
👍
RIP Grant, thank you for the awesome childhood. Your kindness and softness still radiates to this day.
When Jamie laughs, you know it's good.
My water heater in my apartment reminds me of this episode every time I walk past it. Some small part of me imagines it launching through my ceiling, the apartment above mine, and the roof of my building, soaring into the air and landing on a car in the parking lot of the restaurant across the street.
I feel like this episode is just as iconic as the cement truck.
"Come hell or hot water."
"Gets me all steamy" lol
"How can you tell the sex of a chromosome? You pull down it's genes!"
pretty sure this is the exact episode that gave me my irrational fear of exploding water heaters when I was younger lol
33:55
Jeans deliberately are hard to set on fire. The conduct heat very poorly and have a tendency to char rather than catch fire. This is actually what they were originally intended for, as work clothing for people who work around hot things like steam engines.
5:23 - 5:25 *"Ah, that's better!"*
Heh, the narrator's wise cracks and jokes are such a vital part of this show.
😂
The Narrator almost always made it better, it was great in an anime called _Kaguya-sama: Love Is War_ , it was great in MythBusters, except for during the Paris Olympics for the US peeps...(and likely many other country's Olympic Broadcast Partners)
"There's danger everywhere... Did you know what was lurking in your basement?"
Honestly not too surprised it shot skyward rather than just exploding. I've sold and warrantied water heaters for over 11 years, and something like 90-95% of warranty exchanges are from leakages in the bottom of the tank. Part of it is from sediments accumulating at the bottom and rusting out the tank (don't skimp on a water softener and draining your tank every once in a while), but it's also the thinnest section, with little to no insulation or outside sheeting
there was a us chemical safety board video about a similar incident, where there was a rusted bottom. ended up killing people across the street
This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. I had watched the T&P valve work on my parents water hater prior to this episode when it over-pressurized, so it was crazy to see what would have happened had that failed as well.
It's remarkable to see the destructive force of heated water.
The MythBusters team certainly did well with making good use of all the spacious area of what was once the Alameda Naval Air Station.
Thank you so much for putting these videos on UA-cam!
Yes!!
BEST. EXPLOSION. EVER.
Loy-Lange Box Company in St Louis, Missouri. April 3rd, 2017. A severely corroded pressure vessel failed sending it rocketing through the roof and into a nearby building. 1 worker died, another was injured and 3 bystanders perished when the pressure vessel came back down.
This was a boiler, not a hot water heater, they do the same thing differently.
@
It was indeed a pressure vessel, not a water heater.
However, pressure vessels like that water heater have a nasty tendency to fail majestically and catastrophically. Water Heaters just tend to be a prettier rocket than most.
I know a guy at work who works on pressure vessels a lot and he told me about this episode. They can certainly be dangerous if they fail without the safeguards
37:38 "Hi everyone, welcome to the Mythbusters Clubhouse!"
So Adam... 🤪
It still tickles me, to this day, that the single greatest force of energy humans have managed to find is still just... Water, Heat and Pressure, working in concert.
Steam is no joke, but we've discovered/created plenty of far more energetic materials & reactions.
45:53
“Did you know what was lurking in your basement?”
- James Franklin Hyneman
"that's a rocket my friend. Not a bomb"
Well... The house got obliterated so... I'd say it's *also* a bomb XD
"at least one of our crew seems to think they'll get it this time" 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️ lmfao bro was outta there
Grant wearing skin-tight vinyl pants and a shrink wrapped muffin top is just the kind of weird real Mythbusters fans appreciate.
In retrospect, theyre lucky that a sensor failure or leak aborted their small scale water heater failure test in their bunker. That little 6 gal water heater at 400psi could have handily leveled their bunker if it failed catastrophically.
I don't know why, but this just might be my favorite MythBusters episode. There's just something about water pressure being used to propel a projectile that gets to me.
(Water rockets are a favorite of my students as well.)
I remember after a bad flood our water heater started to bulge like crazy my mom saw it and quickly turned it off. Still wild to have seen it
What's impressive is how robust that water tank really is. The pressure had to get well over twice its rated PSI before it failed. Might have been nice to know the peak temperature and pressure inside the "house" when the water heater blew.
That is good engineering doing a 2-2.5 times factor of safety.
@@Kaznil46 I believe most stuff that has a danger factor has a high safety margin, especially for the bridges meant for heavy traffic and to last in the 50-100 years ranges. Even Jets have a safety device with double to triple redundancy to safety margin it. (Boeing's MCAS is an outlier due to Approval Authority missing in action)
Steam/hot water burns are absolutely horrible. I burned myself with boiling engine coolant by opening the radiator cap when my truck overheated. Yes i know it was stupid and i knew better. I had a coolant leak and my truck would overheat every few days. It wasnt technically a radiator cap, it was the cap on the overflow tank. I had opened it numerous times while overheated with no issues but this time was different for some reason. Stopped at a gas station to let it cool off and add water just like i had done nunerous times before. After 20 minutes of cooling off i went to take the cap off and as soon as it unlocked the pressure launched the cap off and a geiser of boiling water and steam rained down on my scalp and bare arms. They were only mild burns but they hurt like hell. I'm a welder/fabricator so im used to burns but boiling water burns ere totally different.
8:58 tori sounds so genuine here that im almost convinced it wasnt even in the script
Pure nostalgia being injected into my Millennial veins
This is one of my favorite episodes.
When i was at vocational school my plumbing teacher always spoke about this episode when ever we were doing water heaters and anything that heats water like furnaces/boilers, no valves that can be accidentaly closed and disabling safety features or the heater will go trough the roof or blow out side of the house its in. I will never do this mistake or install anything that the client could fck up and blow up accidentaly. if theres maintanance valve near expansion chamber the handle must be removed so it cant be shut off accidentaly by client, only can be done by repair man/plumber
Pretty sure sabotaging the product still qualifies as sabotaging the product, even if it's allegedly for safety reasons.
@@mattpace1026 Others ziptie the handles of the valves shut
This has still got to be by far one of the best episodes in the entire series.
I remember when the rolled out the water heater during Jamie’s Farewell Tour and the whole theater cheered and he commented that they (Adam and Jamie) never so much cheer for a water heater.
Greatest show ever! Greatest team ever!
Water is odd, when you think about it. It expands when heated from liquid to gas, like most everything else, but it also expands when chilled from liquid to solid, where most everything else contracts
During hurricane sandy we had 5 duplexes in a row directly next to one another on the same street as our most flooded road in our town burn down at the same time as the water heater exploded
It does that because, unlike other substances that continue to contract as they go from liquid to solid, water molecules spread out and arrange themselves into a nice neat crystalline pattern. That's what forms snowflakes- tiny crystals made up of that pattern.
It’s a good thing it expands otherwise life on earth would be very unlikely to survive.
The explosion is simply glorious at the end!
21:13 “Because I do LOVE tight jeans”
That was creepy.... 😂
bruh
The more I watch this and realize what happened to Grant, the more it really makes this experiment hit closer to home.
After all these years I just realized they're just Sherman and Peabody 🤣🤣
Probably my favorite myth and slow-mo but also it gave me PTSD, not post but PRE-tramatic Stress Disorder.... I don't trust my water heater anymore and every little ting and pop sound it makes reminds me of that slow-motion footage. Basically this episode made me live in fear everyday.... LoL 😂😂
Remember they had to bypass the safety equipment for this- just make sure your temperature and pressure valve is in good shape, you can manually open it with the handle to make sure it is free flowing. If it really bothers you you can put a new one on with a wrench yourself without a lot of fuss with a big wrench.
Mythbusters uses the infomercial format. Lots of repeating until the program is done. Didn't mind it too much with the waterheater, but the jeans were TGF fast forward.
Well... at this moment of the series, they were considered the _B plot_ , just something to pad the time and not so monotonous
Miss you Grant, what a brilliant person 😢😢😢
Gotta wonder what the difference between old designs and new designs of water heaters would change the results.
Well many water heaters today also has a secondary safety feature known as a thermal expansion tank that stops steam from forming in the first place. Its not mandatory though and can most likely fail for the same reason as the T&P valve. A built up of sediment.
@@jimhjortsberg2990 Would that be enough of a difference to show in the results?
I miss grant. The world lost an important man with him.
轟音を響かせて垂直に飛ぶ給湯器。一瞬で消滅する仮設住宅。幻のように吹き消える蒸気
全てが芸術的な神回。吹っ飛んだ給湯器ロケットが時間差で落っこちて情けない音を立てるとこなんて侘び寂びすら感じる
House ? That's a shed for garden tools 😂
One of my favorite episodes
Has everyone failed to notice the “American Beauty” reference at 28:38!? Haha love it!
I remember watching this episode when I was a kid.
Love the moment at 46:13. Really tops off the episode really well.
This channel and video is very underrated
Jamie called it-- elegance. "House . . . no house!"
"To calculate the hotness of Torry's rear..."
I think it would be intreating to see the hot water heater go through a normal house with a few floors before the roof
love the water heater explosion yet because the inlet and outlet are capped, they in effect just made a steam bomb your home water heater would never do this
One of my fav episodes ever.
Adam.. Hot Water Heater?? LOL
It is the correct usage. GIYF.
@@thesweeples3266, hahaha. It's a water heater.
@@thesweeples3266 what do you put in a toaster? toast?
That was lame😢
Karie should have been the one doing the blue jeans experiment!
Knowing what we know now, it’s kinda scary that they were conducting water heater tests at M5. Could you imagine if they reached failure even on one of those small tanks?
Thank goodness you're here, Mythbusters.
I could make so many jokes about Kari and riding❤
Knowing what we know now, it is interesting they started at the bunker...before moving to more open spaces. I guess they still had the safety features in place...but still!
Huh?
They moved to a safer place further away from the explosion what are you on about
Quoting the great George Carlin: "Why do hot water need to be heated?"
The planet is fine
The people they are bucked
This show was peak RIP Grant
Is that his name? Grant? R.i.p man. "Jim Morrison, eat your heart out" 😆
I loved, loved loved this show !
one of my favorite episodes, but Adam calling them Hot Water Heaters drives me CrAzY
Poignant episode. Poor Grant died of an intracranial aneurysm.
I'm kind of thinking maybe I should have my hot water heater checked out.
yeesh that vein myth made my legs hurt but the water boiler one made it worth it
38:30 thus why i refer to red house paint as 'Mythbuster's Red'
Remember watching this when it came out, had a respect for water heater safety items despite having to deal with the watery cleanup when they went kaput. But on the jeans, I always wondered if it wasn't some matches in the backpocket or stones and the metal rivets on the jeans causing a fire.
22:23 would make a great GIF
I'm glad I didn't have cable in 2007, as I was living in a small studio apartment with a problematic water heater on top of my fidge.
I love ❤️ the look 👀 of blood 🩸 to the natural action of oxygen to air blue to red is amazing 😻!!!
Old Mythbuster reruns from 21 years ago, 2003.👍
44:04 California building code for roofs have definitely changed, now all you need is a blue tarp
What would you have to design your water tank closet out of to protect the house? IRON.....
It's very unlikely it would have happened in a well maintained device. Unless it was left in abuse, it's almost unheard of.
Damn Tori has got some serious grip strength to be able to carey essentially his bidy weight plus whatever weight thr friction adds.
My first ever episode of mythbusters. 😮
Would've been something if they actually had someone volunteer their house to test the water heater myth 😉🤣
I had a plumber install a new hot water system and he said they used this hot water system episode as part of their safety class
42:42 well that aged like milk
Ive seen the valve do its job on our old water heater. We eventually had to get a new one because it just started breaking down too often
To follow up on this, a Norwegian show did a lot of house myth's on houses slated for demolition.
Incl the water heater one.
Now granted the heater was on the first floor, and Norwegian houses are a bit sturdier than American houses made cheaply because of chance to be swept away by Tornadoes (as I was told by American construction guy who lived in Tornado alley, moved here to Norway and continued working in the construction biz, before any of you actually'ing patriots start huffin' and puffin', cuz I know you're absolutely raring to go), so the roof didn't go unlike what they said at 47:00, but it deflected to the side and went out the wall, bad enough 🤣
First time I saw a hot water heater go through the roof was in the 1997 film Flubber.
Is this a dangerous thing to do? 🐴: Yea u want me tuh drag hooman. Very danger.
They had a better success rate with two water heaters than NASA has had in 40 years.
lmao they just dragged him with a horse
*-SPOILER BLOCKER-* I hate this new UA-cam timed comments feature 🤦♂️
I always remembered the hot water heater one being one of the most spectacularly confirmed myths!