Howdy all. Quick one today. It has to do with the modern art of getting hot and cold quantities of water from point A to point B in an efficient and timely manner.
You might know this by its more common name: ‘Plumbing’.
Simple stuff, right? Get a house, move in, turn a nob in a sink and BOOM! Water. Like magic, this stuff. You get used to it. You depend on it. You no longer imagine life without it. UNTIL IT BREAKS!
This is when I become a small wide-eyed child who has no idea what he’s doing, or what he’s looking at. I know that water heaters heat water, and I know somehow those pipes take it up to the shower I’m in. And that’s it. I have no idea what sediment is, or how a decade of use can take a cheap heater to its knees.
And that’s where we were with these things. Tons of sediment, rusting, ready to pop and flood the basement unless we did something to halt the inevitable.
So, to get to the point, thank goodness for the pandemic stimulus check because all of that just bought one of these:
A tankless water heater system. Or, as I call it, “thankless". Whatever, I’m just grumpy when I have to spend money on house stuff. It took a dude from 9am to 9pm, with various stretches of time with no power or water to get it done. I literally had to pee in the yard. Not proud of it.
But, none of that is the problem, is it? The problem is I should really know more about how this stuff works. What happens when the zombies come? Or the aliens? Or, heaven forbid, the CHUD?
Thanks for listening. Learn from from my plumber’s blindness. And I don’t care how many Mario games you’ve played, I promise, you didn’t learn anything from that dirty shroom hoarder.
Scott
Mine is having the same issue and will have to get it replaced next week :( We are just going standard HW heater
CHUD... epic deep cut.