So my Columbus day had me dealing with Water... How Appropriate since Christopher had to sale the Oceans blue.... Too bad I had to deal with it flowing out of my Hot Water heater.
Thought it was the Stub pipe coming out of the Hot Water side. Great... No problem, It's a quick fix.... Off to Lowe's to get a 3/4" male Adapter to a 1/2" pipe. Plus some 1/2" pipe. I only needed about 14" of the pipe.
So Lowe's sells a 2 foot section of pipe for about $4.50 OR I can buy the 10 foot piece for just over $10. Well, since I know I will need more again at some point, I bought the 10' Section. However, poking around, they also sell a 6 Inch "Patch" pipe (1/2" Copper) for MORE then the 2' Pipe. REALLY.
Anyway, So I go home.... Cut pipe to what I need. Clean up the fittings, get them sweated in place, Then Install it on the heater. Turn the water back on..... Yup, it's still leaking. Great!!!! (even though it wasn't the problem originally... it was pretty bad anyway so I didn't feel bad about replacing it.)
So further investigation it looked like it was the fitting (female side) on the tank, but then it's possible that it's just the inner tank. Either way, it's not something I am prepared to repair.... Ah but wait.... When I installed the last one, I left the paper work with the heater. It's got a 6 year warranty and it was installed in December 2016! Yea!
That was short lived... Because the paperwork did NOT have the receipt and I never registered it. I did call anyway, I was told that basically if I could find the receipt, they would honor the warranty otherwise, they have to go 6 years from the date of manufacture of January 2016. Ugh.
So off to Lowe's again to get a new Hot Water heater. Happens to be the exact same type (Whirlpool, 40 Gallon electric). Pay for it, load it in the truck, Get it home, unload it and get it in the house, Take it out.... first thing I noticed.... Tank doesn't have the female thread.... It now has MALE adapters on it. Ugh! Now I have Re-Do the work I just did for the bad pipe AND I have to replace the FEED side as well.
So I finish un-boxing the hot-water heater and there is a huge dent on the top. (Sigh... I guess this is the way the day is going to go). So I called Lowe's. They tell me I can return it or I can have it "Discounted" and keep it, either way, I would have to bring it back. Since I had to go to get the Female adapters anyway, I guess it's just a little more work to load it up. Back I go.
So when I get back, the girl at the service desk asks if I want it discounted. I told her I wanted it to WORK! If it worked AND the warranty of this one wouldn't be impacted I'd take the discount. She had this "Deer in the headlights" look about her, so I said, since you apparently don't know about the warranty, I will take a new one.
Finally got the new one home, got the new adapters, got it installed and had hot water to now get a shower and clean up..... 5 hours of stuff I did NOT want to do and about $350.00 less in the wallet (errrr ..... Credit card) was not how I wanted to spend my Columbus day, but hey, I guess it could have been worse..... I could have been at an "Outlet store" with the DW shopping for stuff we don't need.
