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October 24, 2005
at least it wasn't my fault
As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of hot water, the hotter the better, which presented quite a problem yesterday and this morning since we had none.
This happened once before, when we first moved into this house, but that was just a matter of changing a timer. There's a timer installed on our hot water heater so you can set when it turns on and off, and money-saver or not, with two adults and four kids that need showers on a regular basis and generate dirty dishes and laundry daily, this just doesn't work well for us. (And that's not even factoring in the puppykins, cause the blankets from their kennel always need washing.) This time? Not quite that easy.
We found out that the hot water was gone when Z went to take a shower last night and promptly hopped back out to let us know that there was only cold water. The power had gone off earlier thanks to an early-morning thunderstorm, so Mike looked at the timer, the breaker box, and the water heater...there was nothing wrong with any of them. He made an adjustment to the timer, and we went to bed, hoping that had fixed things. It hadn't. There still wasn't any hot water when he woke up to get ready for work, so we called the power company since they have a remote shut-off box on the water heater. Lo and behold, that was problem. The inside was charred and the wires and plastic had melted together. Apparently lightning had hit the box during the storm and fried it, hence the lack of hot water. The guy from the power company replaced the box and we have hot water once again. The icing on this happy ending cake is 1) I didn't have to wait forever for the guy to show up (he was here less than two hours after I called the power company) and 2) this wasn't my fault. Yay!
Posted by tayker at October 24, 2005 12:03 PM in the second year