Water – Hot water tank only has warm water after bath

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We have a new 60 Gallon (US) gas hot water tank. After running a bath, water coming out of it is warm instead of hot. Is this normal? Precisely, here is the experiment I performed:

  • Temperature outside hovering above freezing (not crazy cold for these parts)
  • Tank satisfied
  • Filled bath (hot and cold) to ~120L to get 109F bathing temperature
  • Drained bath (~2 minutes).
  • Filled again with just hot to ~100L and got 100F
  • Checked temperature of hot water running out of faucet now: 88F

Is this normal? Is there a better experiment to determine what is normal/ok?

Note: When tank is satisfied the water that first comes out of it is very hot (close to scalding).

Addendum: It's UG60-50MF1-N2U at https://giantinc.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/GI-FT-UG60ATM-En.pdf

Thank you!

Best Answer

This is normal.

Your tank has 60 litres. You took 120 litres of cold+hot. So, let's assume you took 60 litres of hot and 60 litres of cold water. What went in? Cold water. Heating up this cold water will take time.

The only thing anormal, to me is :

We have a new 60L gas hot water tank.

That's small. Where do you live ? I live in a place with both abundant hydro electricity and abundant water, so a water heater would be more like 60 gallons.

After edits:

Is the dip tube installed correctly ?

https://www.discovercabrillo.com/what-is-a-dip-tube-in-a-hot-water-heater/#:~:text=A%20dip%20tube%20is%20a,the%20bottom%20near%20the%20burners.