So last week our hot water heater broke. It still made hot water just fine, it just made a rather large puddle on the laundry room floor in the process. I was out of town last weekend and I got the phone call from home, "Um... there's water on the floor."
The pressure relief valve on our hot water heater went bad and was allowing the hot water to leak out of the drain pipe whenever it was trying to make hot water. We decided to replace the valve ourselves, how hard could it be?
We went to our local home improvement store and bought a replacement, one-size fits all valve. The problem then became getting the old valve off. Well not so much the valve, but the drain pipe. The hot water heater is so close to the wall that the valve couldn't be removed without first taking off the drain pipe, that took a couple of days. Gotta be smarter than the pipe wrench!
Well guess what, our one-size fits all replacement valve, yeah it didn't fit. So after a trip to the plumbing store, my husband was able to replace the valve. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well.
That little hole in the side, it's not supposed to be there. So after another trip to the hardware store, I replaced the valve. The husband says, "Third times a charm," me I say "Sometimes it takes a wife."
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