by "If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
Published 08/30/2017 at 11:41

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You can never truly appreciate how great of an invention the hot water heater is until it fails on you.

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"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
08/30/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 1

Ugh. Hopefully it’s just a ‘doesn’t work’ failure, and not a ‘water every damn where’ failure.

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
08/30/2017 at 11:44, STARS: 2

Just a “doesn’t work” failure.

...that shower this morning was HARD

"random001" (random001)
08/30/2017 at 11:44, STARS: 2

Ermagherd! That sucks.

Over the weekend I had a water softener fail internally and clog my entire house worth of plumbing with tiny resin microbeads. I spent all day Monday flushing the system, including the hot water heater.

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
08/30/2017 at 11:51, STARS: 0

Better than the tank rusting through at least.

Yeah I’ve been there, that is a harsh shower. On the bright side, I’m sure you were WIDE awake after that.

They’re not terrible to replace other than getting them down to the basement or wherever though.

"Nibbles" (nibbles)
08/30/2017 at 11:55, STARS: 1

I’ve owned two houses. I’ve had two furnaces and one water heater fail

One furnace went out spectacularly. The heat exchanger blew up - literally blew the fuck up - thankfully the explosion was contained; but that was definitely something I didn’t want to hear in the middle of November. Nor is it something I ever want to hear again

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/30/2017 at 12:00, STARS: 0

Hot water doesn’t need heating.

But I feel your pain. I found out mine was leaking when it dripped down and put out the burner. That was not a cheap repair.

"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
08/30/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 1

We were without hot water for about a week while the landlord tried to find a replacement thermocouple for our water heater. Not a very old heater, but the part was already NLA. They wound up buying a new water heater because a $9 part failed on the old one......

"user314" (user314)
08/30/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 0

I misread that as “falls on you” and was expecting Mythbusters-esque hijinks.

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
08/30/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 1

Sorry to disappoint.

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
08/30/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 0

Truer words were never spoken.

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/30/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 0

Pfft - hot water is for the weak. I’ve been without for well over a year now. There was a little disagreement between me and the gas company - they wanted money and I didn’t want to give them any (I was unemployed at the time and completely and totally broke).

They wanted my help to get into the basement, help I declined to give them. Perhaps when the car is paid off in October I might call them and try to work out our differences...