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Like every good homeowner, we all check our T&P valve on our hot water tank every year...right. We i never checked it until this year. Then when i did, sure enough it was stuck and took some force to open and release the water. BUT then...it wouldn't stop dripping. Everything i read said that i had to change the valve out. So a 1 minute valve check on a saturday was going to turn into several hours of draining the hot water tank to change a valve, that i had to go and buy.
It turns out that you don't have to buy and replace the valve. The valve is just corroded or some particle is stuck and not letting it seat fully. You just need to keep flipping it, keep opening and closing it, keep messing with it until it seals. For me it took 3 days of periodically flipping the valve until it sealed fully.

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