Hopefully showering will be possible by the time Marina gets here

[epershand]

Had really lovely dinner with kuwdora tonight, wherein we plotted next week's Adventures With marina, I learned about Sanctuary, and kuwdora learned that in my head all of bandom is SECRETLY six degrees of Mormons and ex-Mormons. (Some people think of it as six degrees of Pete Wentz and Gerard Way, but apparently for me it's six degrees of Brendon Urie and Bert McCracken.)

And then I got home to find the hot water heater leaking all over the kitchen floor, because while my new home is the most adorable and most reasonably priced apartment in San Francisco it is NOT the lowest-maintenance. (In order to get working internet, I wound up having to have AT&T rewire the phone lines completely last weekend. On the bright side, FIBEROPTIC O.O)

One conversation with the Hot Water Heater Company and two with the Building Management Company later, I will apparently have someone out to take a look at it first thing in the morning. Let us keep our fingers crossed that the Hot Water Heater Company people are wrong and it doesn't require replacement, SHALL WE?

Also let's celebrate my calm in the face of large puddles, and the very clear documentation on the side of the heater for (a) turning off the gas and water and (b) calling the necessary people to resolve the problem.

Comments

[tirial]

If it turns out you do have to replace the whole thing, I would see if you could get an on demand hot water heater. No tank, so they can't leak, and they use about a third the energy as traditional ones. :)

[epershand]

They do have to replace the whole thing, but they're just bringing one in from the collection of hot water heaters they apparently have on hand as a giant property management company. I guess I'll find out more about it when they get back!

[melusina]

GAH - lots of empathy! The exact thing happened to us last week (and we're still waiting to resolve it). Hope you get it fixed quickly.

[epershand]

Eeek, that sounds like a MASSIVELY unpleasant week! D: Fortunately my property management company is being delightfully swift about the whole thing and it looks like it'll be resolved today.

[cesy]

Ugh, that's annoying about the hot water.