Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00798

On Sunday Night Allison came to me and let me know that our hot water heater was spraying water into the basement. I was in the middle of my Sunday Night Group Meeting from Work and had to jet out quickly to go an shut off the water to the hot water heater. I have since shown Allison how to do it in case it ever happens again. It shouldn’t for a long time since we had the old one replaced today. I called our plumber and left him a message and sent him a text, however, the only number I had was a home phone and that answering machine gets checked at night and there is no way a text went through. So, I am fortunate that my mom is one of the only people reading this blog these days. She let me dad know and Dad had the super secret cell phone of our plumber and called him and got him over to the house this afternoon.

Our plumber came, took a look at the hot water heater and went out to pick another one up at the supply store, came back and installed it. Hauled the new one down and the old one up and out. I was hoping to switch everything over to a tankless system and a new heating system but that won’t really be possible until later in the Spring/Summer. We’d have been without hot water for a week and no heat either. I did learn that I didn’t have to turn off the heat because the heat and hot water were independent of each other, so we had a cold house for no good reason today. It took forever for it to warm back up, too.

I am lucky that Allison heard the water going in the basement, this could have been much worse. The Hot Water Heater was replaced right before we bought the house so we got 10 years out of it. The furnace is definitely the next to be replaced, though.