![]() 08/30/2017 at 11:41 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
You can never truly appreciate how great of an invention the hot water heater is until it fails on you.
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Ugh. Hopefully it’s just a ‘doesn’t work’ failure, and not a ‘water every damn where’ failure.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 11:44 |
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Just a “doesn’t work” failure.
...that shower this morning was HARD
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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.
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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.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 11:55 |
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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
![]() 08/30/2017 at 12:00 |
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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.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 12:04 |
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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......
08/30/2017 at 12:06 |
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I misread that as “falls on you” and was expecting Mythbusters-esque hijinks.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 13:25 |
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Sorry to disappoint.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 13:54 |
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Truer words were never spoken.
![]() 08/30/2017 at 14:32 |
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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...