Water heater: 3
Us: 2
We got the correct connector, hooked it up, got everything together turned the water on slowly, opened up the hot water everywhere in the house slowly...and the heater leaked. I kid you not.
The leaking is occurring in the threads where the connectors for the piping that brings the water into and out of the system, and the T&P valve, connect to the heater itself. So it's not something that we hooked on. We turned the water off, and by this time Elf is just finished with his life. He's not going to have a hot shower before going to bed. I kid you not, he was actually looking at taking today off rather than take a cold shower! But he couldn't get out of it after Kouryou-chan herself took one (she actually told me she wanted to take one, after I told her that *if* she wanted one tonight, that was the way she would have to take it, or she'd have to wait till tomorrow...she decided she didn't want to wait.)
This morning I called up the GE water heater number and told them the problem. They said it sounded like the threads simply needed more plumbers putty. They faxed paperwork off to a contractor, who I then called to get this going forward as soon as possible. I am now waiting for the contractor to come by sometime between 11 and 1 my time.
Yeah, we'd have hot water sooner if we'd hired a plumber from the start. And we'd be out about $400 more. There's a lot I can do with $400. I can only take a bath with one day's more of hot water. ::grin::
Us: 2
We got the correct connector, hooked it up, got everything together turned the water on slowly, opened up the hot water everywhere in the house slowly...and the heater leaked. I kid you not.
The leaking is occurring in the threads where the connectors for the piping that brings the water into and out of the system, and the T&P valve, connect to the heater itself. So it's not something that we hooked on. We turned the water off, and by this time Elf is just finished with his life. He's not going to have a hot shower before going to bed. I kid you not, he was actually looking at taking today off rather than take a cold shower! But he couldn't get out of it after Kouryou-chan herself took one (she actually told me she wanted to take one, after I told her that *if* she wanted one tonight, that was the way she would have to take it, or she'd have to wait till tomorrow...she decided she didn't want to wait.)
This morning I called up the GE water heater number and told them the problem. They said it sounded like the threads simply needed more plumbers putty. They faxed paperwork off to a contractor, who I then called to get this going forward as soon as possible. I am now waiting for the contractor to come by sometime between 11 and 1 my time.
Yeah, we'd have hot water sooner if we'd hired a plumber from the start. And we'd be out about $400 more. There's a lot I can do with $400. I can only take a bath with one day's more of hot water. ::grin::