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[pegkerr]

Water heater go explody.

Edited to add: meaning no one was hurt, just water all over the basement floor. And a dumpster full of ruined stuff. And now having to cough up somewhere between $300 - $500 for a new water heater.

This I do not need.

Comments

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can relate. My car up and died today and when I told Erin we might have to get by with just one car due to finances... like, DO NOT WANT.

[pameladean]

Is everybody okay?

Ours have never gone explodey. They've just suddenly delivered cold water rather than hot.

P.

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

Had it happen to us ten years ago, but the "explody" was thankfully limited to water on the basement floor. Still not fun.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

No one was hurt. But there's water all over the floor, my dumpster is full of ruined stuff, and now we have to buy a new water heater.

This I do not need.

[pameladean]

Oh, ack. That's a lot worse than a quiet decline. I'm very sorry.

P.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell.

[flourish.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Oh Peg, I'm so sorry. How are things looking?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Wet. Argh.

We definitely have to buy a new water heater. We'll have no hot water until we do. I'm pricing them now. Looks like they're running $300 - $500 a pop.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

On the plus side: dumster full of stuff you probably wanted to get rid of anyway.

Good luck w/ the repairs/replacement.

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Ha. True. I was actually glad to get rid of a lot of it, because it's largely a lot of Rob's (useless) stuff.

I was sorta focusing more on "dumpster is full" rather than "ruined stuff." Because the garbage guys came this morning, and my dumpster is full absolutely to the brim, and they'll not be back for a week. Actually, eight days, because of the holiday.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Sneak stuff into your neighbors' dumpsters.

B

[naomikritzer]

I had the same thought: "I hope it was stuff you'd been wanting to throw out for the last decade or so anyway..."

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Glad no one was hurt, and I hope nothing valuable and/or precious was ruined. If your water heater was old enough to do that, at least you'll probably be able to get one that's more energy efficient!

[laurel]

When our water heater up and died suddenly and leaked water all over, we ended up buying a new one from the gas company (I think that's who it must've been)-- it cost a little more than if we shopped around, but they came and installed it right quick (and took away the old one) and put it on a payment plan on our gas bill so it just meant a slightly higher bill for the next year or whatever. (I believe our hot water heater was also covered by Service Plus or whatever it is, which is maybe who we called first.) A lifesaver since we wouldn't have been able to fork over hundreds of dollars right then.

Anyway, just in case any of this data is useful.

Sorry to hear about this, you've already had way more than enough things to deal with of late. Gah!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have Service Plus, and we got a Center Point guy to come out and look at it last night. His verdict: yeah, it's toast. We'll be talking to a Center Point salesman today.

[swords-and-pens.livejournal.com]

Well, crap. This is about the last thing you all need.

I know Sears can do same-day install if you get it before noon or so that day (we just got a water heater earlier this month). Not sure how they price out compared to where else you have been looking, though.

[petal-pusher.livejournal.com]

How old is your water heater? When mine broke it was still under warranty [mine had a 10 year warranty] which I didn't know but my plumber did. My plumber had the new one delivered for free the very next day.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

A good thought, but no, it's too old. It's actually lasted a good long while. It was here when we moved into the house sixteen years ago.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Oh, ugh. What a year.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

They do that: mine failed about 10 years ago, but luckily there wasn't a lot of water and there's nothing to get ruined on that section of the basement floor. Unfortunately, they do tend to fail somewhere between 15-20 years.

Up here, you can actually rent hot water heaters from the gas company: in the short term, that might be a good solution for you to figure out long-term solutions. (If they fail, the gas company pay for the replacement.)

What we ended up doing last year was moving to a tankless hot water system that is actually part of our our high efficiency gas furnace. You can also get standalone tankless hot water. They require you to run the water a bit more before you get hot water, but you save a LOT on not having to keep that huge tank hot all the time. Alternatively, you can get them with a small standby tank that gives you immediate hot water but because it doesn't have the heater right in the tank works a lot more efficiently.