Today is Waiting-for-the-Plumber-Day....

jujube

jujube

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I think I'm in Florida, but I'm not sure any more.
We got late yesterday afternoon after four months away and turned on the water heater. Of course, water starts running out of it. Of course.

Called the plumber. He's supposed to be here "around noon". Anyone want to get in on the office pool as to when he'll finally appear? Assuming he DOES finally appear?

You would be surprised, though, how you CAN take a nice shower with a bucket of warm water.
 

You didn't mention whether if the water heater was gas or electric. While you are waiting you might want to look up the pros & cons of tankless water heater. They come in both electric & gas. I'm guessing you shut off the water supply at the curb. If you decide to use a tank since you are away for months at a time it might be a good a good idea to open the drain valve at the bottom of the tank.

Most water tank manufacturers recommend hooking a garden hose to the tank drain & draining the tank of sediment once a year. At this time of year my best guess the plumber will arrive as scheduled.
 

I installed the last two myself in previous homes. The one here is way overage, but I will let a plumber do it.
On the last one the drain was stopped up, so I had to gorilla it outside full of water. I am too old for that jazz now.
Years ago I put a timer switch on one. It shut off about 7pm and came back on about 6am. We were never short off hot water.
 
Here in the Houston area, builders put the water heater in the attic. Since our house is 2 stories, the water heater is "way up there." Last time it failed my hubby replaced it himself with the help of a burly son up the pull-down attic steps. Next time, we'll pay the plumber and wait all day like Jujube.
 
Well, he actually came on time (hooray!) and we have a brand new sparkling waterheater out there in the garage. It should outlive me.

Of course, he did point out that our washer drain assembly/connection/whatever is totally out of code and he doesn't know how it passed inspection. He's calling us tomorrow with an estimate on re-doing that as we plan to put the house up for sale in a year or so and might as well get it fixed now instead of in a hurry when we sell. The code inspectors here in our town are absolutely the devil on details. They'll fail you on the slightest of things. There are a couple that you just PRAY you won't get.
 
When I had a new water heater put in a couple years ago, they found that my overflow? or some such system wasn't up to code and I had to have that taken care of.
 

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