Tuesday, July 03, 2007
oh the joys of homeowning aka i learned to replace a water heater!
so on sunday i heard some rattling up in the roof. no, not some, A LOT! except i didn’t know it was coming from the attic, i thought it was outside for the longest time. then i finally went upstairs and i heard the noise from the hot water heater closet, which was apparently right under the fan in the attic that was rattling. i turned off the water main just to make sure the water heater wasn’t the one making all the noise, and when i turned it back on, i think something in the 15-year-old heater broke, cuz it started leaking at that moment and wouldn’t stop!
i ended up mopping up gallons and gallons of water out of the hot water closet and thinking that after some time it would eventually stop, but it just kept on getting worse and worse and worse. and apparently even when i turned off the water main it would still drip into the heater, so every so often i had to empty it out or else it would spill out onto the floor again.
yeah.
the joys of homeowning.
so on monday morning i emptied out the bucket and then called some plumbers and got a ton of quotes around $1000 for installation! i did -not- like that option… the only one that was gonna be anywhere lower (around $500) wouldn’t be available till next week! sheesh!!
thankfully i have very knowledgeable (and strong) friends cuz they told me all i needed to know to replace it and hook it up. actually, gary helped alot, and chad did all the gruntwork, and felcar climbed into my attic to check out the fan, and he and chris helped me move the piano into the house. (ok, so the piano is totally unrelated to the rest of the story, but they still helped. and now i have a piano! =P)
anyways, the end story is that we replaced it ourselves and hooked it up and it’s all working so beautifully and all for the cost of the water heater, and that’s it.
and now i know how to replace a water heater =) i’m learning a ton…