Luckily, I was able to take a shower yesterday morning with no issues, because barely an hour later I had a call from Rusty about a ruptured water heater!
Long story short:
- Water heaters don’t last long with our uber-hard water — this is at least our 5th in 30+ years, maybe 6th
- Almost 5 years to the day since the last time (memorable because our 2nd-ever Airbnb guests had just arrived)
- There was still a year left on the warranty
- Kate was around & able to assist as needed
- It took all damn day (poor Rusty) (but he wanted to do it himself)
The weather was awfully nice, and there is, of course, no snow, which made getting the old one out & the new one in much more “pleasant.” We even sat on the pergola for a while!
I assisted just a little bit to get the new water heater positioned, and took out a bunch of packing to recyling/trash. I discovered a few things along the way:
Tulips outside the back porch door, allium & bleeding heart in the backyard.
Ready or not, spring is springing!
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Another year on that warranty helped, hopefully. At least Rusty is handy, right? And time under the pergola sounds great – we aren’t there yet but soon, I hope!
If it’s any consolation, you probably know that Rusty doing it himself saved you a bunch of money. Ryan just had a pressure relief valve installed (a valve that steps down pressure from where it enters the house at the main). His house didn’t have one and it seems like that caused the expansion chamber on his water heater to blow out. John looked at the parts and thought he could maybe do it himself, but Ryan chose to get a plumber so things would be done according to code and correctly. His bill was $800 and John’s parts estimates were $150 or so. I don’t begrudge plumbers their money and have been glad to pay for their expertise when needed! I hope this water heater lasts a good long time!
I hope this water heater lasts as the last one did… before the warranty runs out! Spring is springing here too… and I LOVE it! (We have snow being talked about by the weather people for next week… sigh.)
I’m guessing you and Rusty will really enjoy your showers tonight!
I remember when our hot water heater “blew” – Fletch was working out of town and I had to get a wet/dry vac to get the water out of our basement. Not fun!