Our Hot Water Heater Needed Repairs

How many of you have ever had any problems with your hot water heater? Just a few days ago, my aunt had to call a milwaukee water heater repair guy to come out to her home. Well, yesterday…it was my turn!

I got up at the crack of dawn and was having some serious back pain and leg cramps, so I decided to take a hot bath. Well, as my bathtub was filling, I realized that there was no steam coming off of the water. I put my hand into the water and realized it was ice cold!

I put my pajamas back on and got the wonderful hubby up out of bed at 6am in the morning. He gets dressed and goes down into our basement to check out the plumbing pipes. They were fine. He then goes over to the other room in our basement where our hot water heater is located and found a huge lake of water laying all over our basement floor! ugh, what a mess!

Since it was early in the morning, we had to wait until the local company was open to give them a call. While we were waiting, hubby got the shop vac out and cleaned up all of that water. It was a real pain in the butt to drag that shop vac over to the laundry room to empty it out, every time it got too full.

Around 11am the repair guy showed up and inspected our old hot water heater and informed us that it would need to be completely replaced. We decided to go with a bigger water heater and one that was energy efficient. It took about 2 1/2 hours to get the old one out and the new one put in.

Let me tell you, those things are not cheap! Nope, they are not! We had to pay $1,350 for the new one, plus we had to pay a couple hundred dollars for the removal and installation process. The good thing is, the new one comes with a 10 year warranty.  At least this new one is sparkling clean and white! Yeah!!!

So yesterday, I got very little work done as we were dealing with that issue most of the day. I am really hoping that today is better!