{"id":6135,"date":"2010-03-25T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2010-03-25T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:20:55","slug":"where-the-water-heater-explodes-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/where-the-water-heater-explodes-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the water heater explodes, part one."},"content":{"rendered":"

If I hadn’t been in the tub, Paul wouldn’t have been in our room with Kate.<\/p>\n

If Kate hadn’t resisted sleep for nearly 2 hours, Paul wouldn’t have left the study.<\/p>\n

And if Paul hadn’t left the study to be in our bedroom, he probably wouldn’t have heard the sound.<\/p>\n

WATER.<\/p>\n

From the tub, I heard him shout, “WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY” and then take off down the hall. Kate came into the bathroom as I finished up and threw on a robe.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a miracle I didn’t break my neck as I walked around the attic ladder and into the kitchen — WATER.\u00c2\u00a0 EVERYWHERE.<\/p>\n

It was dripping down from the lights in the center of the kitchen, dripping all over the cabinets, fridge, and pooling on the floor.\u00c2\u00a0 I ran back for towels and basins.<\/p>\n

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We still don’t know exactly what happened.\u00c2\u00a0 But the bottom line is that water leaked from one of our two water heaters.\u00c2\u00a0 They are from 1996, so they were getting old in water-heater-years.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it rusted and started to leak?\u00c2\u00a0 Either way, it appears that the catch basin under the water heater overflowed — and had slowly been sending water down into the drywall over our kitchen.<\/p>\n

Paul bailed out the basin as a first step.\u00c2\u00a0 We investigated the problem in a variety of tests, turning off and on water in different spigots and at the main house water line.\u00c2\u00a0 The bottom line is that we don’t have water, at least for now.<\/p>\n

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Can you see the water dripping from the light and ceiling?\u00c2\u00a0 (See how the drywall seam is raised?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not suppose to be like that.\u00c2\u00a0 Soggy to the touch.)<\/p>\n

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After thinking it was just the lights, Paul noticed that a dishtowel on the counter was wet… uh, oh… a few seconds later, we saw that the range was flooded as well.\u00c2\u00a0 We had to take the cabinet below apart for it to dry out.<\/p>\n

The water is pretty gross.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>As of this moment, Paul is staying up most of the night to empty the basin in the attic as it fills.\u00c2\u00a0 The water heater… the 30 gallon water heater… is slowly draining.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve tried a few tricks but after having to do the entire clean-up a SECOND time already tonight, we admitted that we were going to just have to watch it… for awhile.<\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I hadn’t been in the tub, Paul wouldn’t have been in our room with Kate. If Kate hadn’t resisted sleep for nearly 2 hours, Paul wouldn’t have left the study. And if Paul hadn’t left the study to be in our bedroom, he probably wouldn’t have heard the sound. WATER. From the tub, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}