Water, Water Everywhere
Opened the garage to leave for work and get everything in the car. Noticed there was some water under the tire and when I went on the other side to help Riley in the car, there was a ton of water. There was also water flowing down the driveway and under the garage door area.
My first thought was the water heater. My next thought was wondering if it was the washer leaking since I'd run the washer several times yesterday. Then we walked into the third car tandem garage part and there was water on the ground everywhere.
Our hot water heater decided it was time to quit and was leaking everywhere. Jeremy called Roger to find out what to do to stop the leak. There were two - one out the bottom and one gushing out the top. So he turned off the valve that was supposed to shut off the water. Come to find out later that they had the lines mixed up and they were incorrect so the wrong valve was turned off. Jeremy got the wet/dry vac set up and I got to work on getting the water out of the garage. Emptied tons and tons of water.
The girls all hung out in the car while Jeremy and I went to work on it. They were very patient which was great.
I finally left to take Julia to work and get us to school so we would be there as close to 8am as possible. Thankfully we were on time and no tardy slips given! Got close with three minutes to spare.
Jeremy ended up coming back around lunchtime and opened the garage to find that it was all flooded again the same as before. Thankfully the new unit was put in and the old unit taken out. The guy did a great job getting it in and it looks great. He told us that our unit was a standard six year unit!!! And it lasted almost fourteen years which is insane.
The biggest blessing in all of this (and there were several blessings) is that we had planned to get a new unit and to use a portion of our tax return to pay for it. In so doing, we also had painted and gotten a new shelf in the garage which took all sorts of things off the ground. Only ten days or so ago, we got the shelf. If this had happened before then, we'd have a totally different mess to deal with.
Our new water heater is working awesome and we can take hot showers tomorrow - woo hoo!! It's just one more thing that is now new to the home and one less expensive thing to have to do in the near future!
My first thought was the water heater. My next thought was wondering if it was the washer leaking since I'd run the washer several times yesterday. Then we walked into the third car tandem garage part and there was water on the ground everywhere.
Our hot water heater decided it was time to quit and was leaking everywhere. Jeremy called Roger to find out what to do to stop the leak. There were two - one out the bottom and one gushing out the top. So he turned off the valve that was supposed to shut off the water. Come to find out later that they had the lines mixed up and they were incorrect so the wrong valve was turned off. Jeremy got the wet/dry vac set up and I got to work on getting the water out of the garage. Emptied tons and tons of water.
The girls all hung out in the car while Jeremy and I went to work on it. They were very patient which was great.
I finally left to take Julia to work and get us to school so we would be there as close to 8am as possible. Thankfully we were on time and no tardy slips given! Got close with three minutes to spare.
Jeremy ended up coming back around lunchtime and opened the garage to find that it was all flooded again the same as before. Thankfully the new unit was put in and the old unit taken out. The guy did a great job getting it in and it looks great. He told us that our unit was a standard six year unit!!! And it lasted almost fourteen years which is insane.
The biggest blessing in all of this (and there were several blessings) is that we had planned to get a new unit and to use a portion of our tax return to pay for it. In so doing, we also had painted and gotten a new shelf in the garage which took all sorts of things off the ground. Only ten days or so ago, we got the shelf. If this had happened before then, we'd have a totally different mess to deal with.
Our new water heater is working awesome and we can take hot showers tomorrow - woo hoo!! It's just one more thing that is now new to the home and one less expensive thing to have to do in the near future!
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