This week hasn’t been my favorite. I told a coworker on Wednesday that it felt
like it should be Friday. He responded
that it felt like it should be next Wednesday already. Ha!
Work has been crazy, the boys have been crazy, and Tuesday
when I got home from work, A asked me if I wanted the bad news or the worse
news. Really? The bad news was he had spotted ants in the
boys’ rooms. Not all that surprising
with all the rain we’ve had and all the crumbs the boys leave behind. We were due for a visit from the exterminator
anyway. The worse news was that we
seemed to have a minor flood in the basement and it appeared that water was
coming from our hot water heater.
Uggh. Luckily, the previous
owners had surrounded the area near the hot water heater with carpet squares
and they had soaked up much of the water.
It was easy enough to throw them away.
After picking up all the carpet squares, filling several garbage bags,
and using up nearly all of our towels to clean up the mess, we began to look
online for a new water heater – at 7pm.
We found one from Home Depot, only about 15 minutes from our house. A called customer service to find out the
cost for delivery and installation.
$700+ dollars. So more than the
water heater itself. Crap. I decided to call my cousin. He’s super handy and installed our air
conditioner last summer. He told me he
typically charged $250. Sold! SO grateful for his help. He said he’d postpone another job so that he
could help us the next day and asked if I could pick up the new hot water
heater. Somehow, that giant box just fit
in my SUV – it definitely wouldn’t have fit in my previous car. And by 5pm last night, we had hot water
again. Phew. I know it could’ve been much worse. So thankful my mom was downstairs and noticed
the leak and thankful none of the carpet squares had gotten moldy.
I KNOW that repairs and replacing appliances are part of
home ownership, but that doesn’t mean they don’t suck! This is our third appliance in a year to die
and I can’t help thinking about all the fun things (vacation, shoes, clothes…)
$4000+ dollars could have been spent on.
Boo!!
Ugh, we just replaced ours last week! The only positive was that our water heater is in the garage (no basements in this region) so when I saw standing water I just opened the garage door and it rushed down the driveway. Whew!
ReplyDeleteI agree hime repairs and replacing appliances is not my favorite thing to spend money on!
Leaky water heaters are never fun, but so nice to just open your garage door! I'm one of those crazy people who hides gifts and then forgets where I hide them. Well, with our water heater fiasco, I ended up finding a shirt that I planned to give A for his birthday... back in February. So I guess something good came of it. :)
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