Had to drain the tank again yesterday. But we had a new shut off valve installed so the back fill from the cold water side would not happen again. Nice. We are moving from natural gas to electric this time, but keeping the hookups for gas because it’s here, and might as well keep them. It’s great to have trained professionals to do this stuff so I don’t get blown up!
I got the old tank up the basement stairs and outside next to the garage. The new tank is slightly shorter, so it looks to be a hair thinner too. Takes up less room is what I’m driving at here. I have washed all of the towels for a third time because tipping the old unit dumped a fair bit of brackish water all over the floor, and stairs too.
Just waiting for the unit to get hard wired in to an existing 240 volt box from an old dryer. Otherwise I have purged the air from the system by opening all of the hot water taps. All bar two I guess. The basement bathroom hot water taps is shut off at the valve below the sink because it leaks out of the faucet. Has done so with three faucet replacements, so I just turned off the hot water rather than hear a constant drop, no matter which faucet it has been replaced with. That’s a different story for another time. Also I did not run the basement shower, so I might get some sputtering from that once I use it after the wiring gets done, and we have hot water again.
We’ve had to bathe at the inlaws for the last two days, which isn’t ideal, but could be a whole lot worse if they didn’t live so close by. We’ve made do. Not really an issue at this point.
I did not have a new hot water tank on the bingo card, as we suspected the refrigerator, Air Conditioner, or my wife’s car if I’m being honest. Luckily this was about $700 plus tax, so not great, but not terrible either. Just waiting to hear what the labour costs will be for the installation.
It is Saturday, and school is done until January. I officially have a cough so that’s cool. Sore throat comes and goes depending on the severity of the coughing fits. I am likely to keep this well into January or February with it only getting much, much worse before it gets better. Thanks autoimmune diseases! Wanna see a party trick of how much worse my body can make a common cough? Let’s just wait and see shall we?
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