water heater

[Listener]

We stayed at a friend's house last night.  We came home to the basement and part of the garage being flooded.  The water heater decided to break.  Don't know if it's the piping or the unit.  Emergency plumbers are coming but they're more money than we can afford.  Not that we have a choice.

At least I can shower at the gym.

Once it's fixed, we have to suck the water out of the basement carpet with a rented wet-dry vac, and then we have to clean out the garage AGAIN.  The couch we were hoping to sell?  Water all in the bottom.

My wife is talking to her mother, who is relaying things to her father, because her father won't use the phone on the Sabbath.  I am about to scream from having to listen to it.  It's the most ridiculous thing I've heard, and it happens ALL THE TIME.

If the unit is broken, we go to Home Depot and get a new one.  Then they install it.

This is nightmarish.  We were having such a good weekend.  Now, instead of relaxing tomorrow, we have to clean out the basement and garage again, and then not shower before going to the show we have tickets to tomorrow night.

[eo000]

that sucks bad. sorry.

[sapphirehart]

Thank you for not calling it a hot water heater.

[VikingJuice]

Good luck with the cleaning and drying out.

[Gamplayerx]

Man, that sucks.  If you lived closer, I'd lend you our wet-vac. 

Did I miss a story about you having to clean out the garage before?

Sorry.

[Beefy]

Good vibes, Listener.

I can relight your pilot light if you want.

[ReBurn]

That does suck.  I just went through the same thing a few weeks back.  In our case the tank inside decided that it was going to start leaking from the top, so the entire insulated portion was filled up with water.  I don't know how the electrical portion of the thermostats and such didn't get wet, but thank goodness it didn't.

I feel your pain, man.  $259 at Home Depot and a little elbow grease and I was fixed up.  Good think I still had some pieces of the laminate floor left over from the initial installation, or I would have had to buy that, too.

[ReBurn]

Thank you for not calling it a hot water heater.

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[Jessie]

Good vibes, Listener.

I can relight your pilot light if you want.

You make me giggle.

[dazie]

I had a similar occurence- the water heater rusted out and flooded not only MY place, but the other three in the 4 plex.  Oops.  My dog wouldn't let the maintenance guy in either, so he had to turn the water off to the whole plex until we got home.  Oops.

We had no carpet for months.  And we lost everything that had been on the floor.  We paid to replace the water heater and have it installed, but fortunately we were renting so we got to charge it off our rent.

I got nothing to add.  Here's hoping you come through with shining colors.

[DownSouth]

That's shitty.  Sorry for the hassles.

[Listener]

Thanks, all.

Really, the damage could've been worse.  We probably lost a lot of old papers and some books, but we have a walk-in basement, so all the good stuff is upstairs.  I'm most pissed that we'll probably lose the couch we wanted to sell, because it's in the garage and the feet are off, so it's sitting on the floor.  Oh, and that big section of carpet.  That probably has to go too.  We may just put down some cheap linoleum and rugs.

We bought a w/d vac; it was only $50.

Oh well.