So I let the dog out of his cage from the basement this morning and I notice a noise like something is leaking. Well well.. the water heater is leaking like a spring, great.

I shut the valve off and went to work.

Got home tonight and my step dad came over and we spent the last 4 hours on this piece of shit and what do you know? It's still leaking!!

If this last fix we tried does not work, I guess it's a new water heater. It's under warranty, but the guy who built our house is out of town and we have no hot water.

Cold showers piss my wife off. :)

Boil some water and use the bathtub.

or.. go to the hot neighbors house for my shower.. :)

I ran the serial number for our water heater and the warranty expired.. IN FRIGGIN 2000? We just bought this house 11 months ago - BRAND NEW.

Oh how the builder better call me back!

Ah well, at least it didn't happen on your birthday or anything like that.

or.. go to the hot neighbors house for my shower.. :)

I ran the serial number for our water heater and the warranty expired.. IN FRIGGIN 2000? We just bought this house 11 months ago - BRAND NEW.

Oh how the builder better call me back!
Get a good deal on the house because of used parts?

Builder must have gotten a deal on a load o' heaters and just stored em...

Just thank god you have a newer house. My house was built in 1942.. for plumbing, I think it would just be more efficient to build an aqueduct outside to bring in water.

Yeah, but you'd have to build a granary first.

Yeah, but you'd have to build a granary first.

Nice

In the end, a fun birthday was had by all :(

SI

Builder must have gotten a deal on a load o' heaters and just stored em...

Just thank god you have a newer house. My house was built in 1942.. for plumbing, I think it would just be more efficient to build an aqueduct outside to bring in water.

I feel your pain, mine was built in 1930.

or.. go to the hot neighbors house for my shower.. :)

I ran the serial number for our water heater and the warranty expired.. IN FRIGGIN 2000? We just bought this house 11 months ago - BRAND NEW.

Oh how the builder better call me back!
You know all that work you have done on the Water Heater has now voided the warranty, right?:D

It was Christmas Eve for my water hear horror story. And my Inlaws were coming to visit my wife and I for the first time. (they were staying with us) One hour before they were due to arrive, the top of our water heater basically exploded shooting water all over live a volcano. This water heater came with the house, so there was no warrenty. And we had no choice but to replace it. We called the water heater company we wished to go with, and the rates were double becasue it was late on Christmas Eve, getting close to Midnight.

That... sucked. :mad:

I feel your pain, mine was built in 1930.

I once owned a house built in 1921. *shudders*

I once owned a house built in 1921. *shudders*

But as the saying goes, YMMV.

I'm sitting in a house built in 1902.
I'm moving into a house built in the early 80's.

The difficulty in getting work done properly, the amount of "unexpected complications" endured, finding & implementing solutions to various issues, all have been considerably worse with the newer house than with the older house. And that's just in a few months of dealing with it versus 12 years with the historic house, I can only imagine the joys that still await with what my wife has taken to calling the "1980's Faux French Brick Box".

I would not have believed it to be possible that newer would be this exponentially worse until I experienced it first hand, but it's turned out to be true.

I haven't done anything to the water heater itself.

It's still leaking as I tried to see if it was fixed this morning. I have one more thing I'm going to replace before the builder is going to get a call from me every 10 mins until he gets us a new water heater.

Wish me luck!

But as the saying goes, YMMV.

I'm sitting in a house built in 1902.
I'm moving into a house built in the early 80's.

The difficulty in getting work done properly, the amount of "unexpected complications" endured, finding & implementing solutions to various issues, all have been considerably worse with the newer house than with the older house. And that's just in a few months of dealing with it versus 12 years with the historic house, I can only imagine the joys that still await with what my wife has taken to calling the "1980's Faux French Brick Box".

I would not have believed it to be possible that newer would be this exponentially worse until I experienced it first hand, but it's turned out to be true.

The difference is your 1902 house was probably well-maintained by the previous owners unlike mine ;).

The difference is your 1902 house was probably well-maintained by the previous owners unlike mine ;).

Actually, the house had been through more than a decade of poor maintenance, including more than a year sitting vacant when we bought it.

Again, YMMV, but the advantages our old house seem to hold over the much newer one were:

1) Built better to start with. They say there's nothing like staring on a firm foundation, and the craftsmanship that went into our turn of the century house was high quality. Both the materials & the workers were apparently much more above average than those used on the 80's model.

2) I think there's also a significant difference in the quality of workers today that tend to specialize in old houses vs those who work primarily on newer homes. Of course, a water heater is a water heater by & large, but across the broad range of possible work, this factor becomes both pretty obvious & pretty telling quickly.

Usually when I do something with my house, it takes me about four times as long as I thought it was going to take.

With plumbing, though, the multiplier is closer to eight times. I tried to clean out a clogged bathroom sink trap a couple of months ago, which should take at most ten minutes. Well, when I put it back together the thing leaked because the gasket was old and brittle, so I ran down to the hardware store to get another one. Then the nut was so old that it broke when I tightened it, which meant I now had to run to Home Depot to get a replacment, but getting access to the nut meant I had to pull out another piece of pipe, and that made it more efficient to simply rebuild the whole trap while I was down there, and of course I forgot to get one piece of the assembly on my first trip to Home Depot, so I had to go back again. Four hours later I had the thing working again.

Sigh.

You sound like me GB. ;)

GB is right, whenever you start a plumbing project you may as well include 4-6 trips to -insert local hardware store here-<insert your="" local="" hardware="" store=""> into your time estimation. Even though the parts are supposedly 'standardized' that doesn't account for the fact that most of the time when they were put in place by the last person it was completely bastardized.</insert>

It's FIXED!!

It was the pipe I had originally thought. :)

I promise I will never take hot water for granted again. :D

Glad to hear that it all worked out :)

Glad to hear that it all worked out :)

Thanks kind sir, back to the NHL demo I go. :D