Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Who's in hot water?

Our hot water heater is acting strangely. Among other things, the overflow is dripping. Not a good sign according to the plumber. The injured heater sits, elevated on a wooden platform, in the back corner of the doll-house sized utility room. The washing machine is in front of that platform, near the door.

To access the heater, oddments stored in the small space had to be removed so that the washer could then be taken out of the way. These oddments are now decorative items in front of the back sliding door. Shelves that used to hold some of the oddments are artistically placed there, also. It is a wonderful collection of 20th and 21
st century indispensable artifacts. In the process, we discovered items we forgot we had ... also, the occasional item of no discernible utilitarian value.

We are waiting for telephone notice that the plumber is on the way. Evidently, the wish is so strong that when my brother telephoned from his car, I was positive that I was speaking with a very friendly plumber who actually remembered my first name. My only defense is that the telephone connection was distant and hollow sounding.

If he had not possessed so much "insider information" I might still be talking to the plumber ....




5 comments:

Zeta said...

Sounds like Uncle R. already has the correct information and could fly down to fix the hot water heater himself which would also be on a first name basis.

Anonymous said...

If you had been talking to a plumber, the first thing you heard wouldn't be your name... it'd be, "What's in YER wallet!" Har-har!

Zeta said...

M. mom hot water heater also had to be replaced this week. Who's next????

Anonymous said...

Whooo - that't not a good question to ask at this point in time. Our water heater goes -pop-glub and sometimes there's a lot of air in the lines. We've decided to live with the noise until there's a quarter-inch of water on the floor!

Zeta said...

An watchful eye will help reduce the quarter-inch H20 on the floor. Our last plumber visit cost $400.00 and for our de-nair-ro we had a leak fixed and a snake visit our pipes. The leak repair also included fancy holes behind the kitchen cabinets which nobody can see thank goodness.