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Why are you heating HOT water? Do you prefer scalding water?
Sorry, I had to. Hope you get it fixed soon!
Quick hot water heater died!
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Why are you heating HOT water? Do you prefer scalding water?
Sorry, I had to. Hope you get it fixed soon!
In the 25 years we have been in our house we have had 2 electric hot water heaters up and die.
Is your heater leaking? Mine leaked and when I called for service, I was told to turn off the circuit breaker for the hot water heater for safety reasons. Sorry I can't offer much more help. Although I am puzzled that your hot water heater is outside. Is this standard for your area?
Is your heater leaking? Mine leaked and when I called for service, I was told to turn off the circuit breaker for the hot water heater for safety reasons. Sorry I can't offer much more help. Although I am puzzled that your hot water heater is outside. Is this standard for your area?
I am totally confused! 
Are you renting - or do you own the property? If you're renting, call the land lord..
How can you not know what kind of hot water heater you have?
Why is it completely encased - outside, no less?
I can't figure this one out for the life of me!!!
Are you renting - or do you own the property? If you're renting, call the land lord..
How can you not know what kind of hot water heater you have?
Why is it completely encased - outside, no less?
I can't figure this one out for the life of me!!!
It probably kicked out 24-36-48 hours ago. The hot water in the tank will stay hot for that long (usually, not as sure about your outdoor situation). Can you think of anything that might have happened a day or two ago? If it's electric it could be something as simple as replacing the heating element. Not sure if it's up to code if no one can access it....seems very strange.
Octoberbride03
<font color=660000>I think Tweetie done gone Cucko
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Ok 2 pages long.
We found somebody to replace the heater. DH got a name from a coworker of his. He's coming tomorrow afternoon with a new heater.
Sadly it looks like no vacation this yr as it will be in the neighborhood of $700. Which actually isn't that bad considering Dh actually did ask the kid at Lowe's how much to install. That was like $250. So not that much more and with luck I can be spik and span for church on Sun.
As for the outdoor water heater, its not unusual for my area, just depends on the size of the house. No basements here because the water table is too high and we live in a small 1 story home. Can't put in the attic as its not big enough and who wants it up there anyway. We bought the house this way and there is no changing it. Besides, it sits so close to both the bathroom and the kitchen there is seriously NO waiting for hot water. 2 seconds tops. Hence we know its dead or dying, and we don't fell like making a repair only to replace a few yrs later. Just rip it out and start over.
And we do own the house. If we hadn't we would just have called the landlord. The last house we had was a rental and out water heater was inside the laundry room which sat between the hallway and the bathroom. That was odder to me than this 1 being outside.
We've been told to shut off the circuit breaker for tomorrow so he can work safely and that's np at all. Our box also sits outside on the opposite side of the house. I'm just happy our laundry room sits on the inside because in this neighborhood when the houses were built they put all the laundry attachments on the outside as well. We had 1 neighbor who finally got around to enclosing their laundry machines just last yr.
So this is just a capper on what has so far been a lousy week. Not getting any better.
We found somebody to replace the heater. DH got a name from a coworker of his. He's coming tomorrow afternoon with a new heater.
Sadly it looks like no vacation this yr as it will be in the neighborhood of $700. Which actually isn't that bad considering Dh actually did ask the kid at Lowe's how much to install. That was like $250. So not that much more and with luck I can be spik and span for church on Sun.
As for the outdoor water heater, its not unusual for my area, just depends on the size of the house. No basements here because the water table is too high and we live in a small 1 story home. Can't put in the attic as its not big enough and who wants it up there anyway. We bought the house this way and there is no changing it. Besides, it sits so close to both the bathroom and the kitchen there is seriously NO waiting for hot water. 2 seconds tops. Hence we know its dead or dying, and we don't fell like making a repair only to replace a few yrs later. Just rip it out and start over.
And we do own the house. If we hadn't we would just have called the landlord. The last house we had was a rental and out water heater was inside the laundry room which sat between the hallway and the bathroom. That was odder to me than this 1 being outside.
We've been told to shut off the circuit breaker for tomorrow so he can work safely and that's np at all. Our box also sits outside on the opposite side of the house. I'm just happy our laundry room sits on the inside because in this neighborhood when the houses were built they put all the laundry attachments on the outside as well. We had 1 neighbor who finally got around to enclosing their laundry machines just last yr.
So this is just a capper on what has so far been a lousy week. Not getting any better.
Octoberbride03
<font color=660000>I think Tweetie done gone Cucko
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Welcome to Chesapeake, it seemed strange to us too but apparently it is very up to code encased the way it is. Found that out when we redid the bathroom. Not handy but up to code. We live in an odd city, we know.
Octoberbride03
<font color=660000>I think Tweetie done gone Cucko
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All i can tell you is we had hot water on Weds. I had nice hot water to clean up with and sometime thurs. it went bye bye
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