Looking online at different water heaters I was never sure where to look first. Is it an appliance? Is it plumbing? Is it a device? Short answer: hot water is one of our most fundamental needs. It is somewhere near the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
This is what our slow trickle looked like. We were only dripping at about one drip per hour but the experts tell me that a “catastrophic rupture” could happen at any moment.
We had to replace the old with a power vented device which, naturally, costs more than other types. Sue said we could have had a power vent placed on our fireplace when we had it installed but we would have grown tired of the vent fan.
This is the vent tubing that heads out to the side of the house. After we acquired a ceiling in the basement I quickly forgot how our pipes and ducts were arranged up there. I should have drawn a map or some other schematic representation of the mechanicals.
While the two guys from Dave Nelson Plumbing were here, all cats disappeared. It is now four hours later and I haven’t seen Nigel. He’s probably sequestered in his bunker.
And the old one is out.
And the new one is in. This one meets the efficiency requirements to be energy star rated so we’ll get the $150 rebate from Excel Energy. It’s a 40 gallon, 40,000 BTU, 0.70 efficiency A O Smith. Note the drip pan that we put in to help channel any future catastrophic failure.
I will need to fashion a hose of some sort and run it the two feet to the floor drain.
Here’s the email we got today from Trip Advisor. With her reviews Sue has reached 35,033 readers! She published this year’s review of Live Aqua last night. I will be interested to read her review of her traveling companion. . .
. . . me.
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