Hot Water Heater Pipe Breaks!

2020 has been very uneventful so far. Until….

While out doing other stuff, I suddenly get these panicked messages from Jose. Omg! Regresa a la casa!! Ahorita!! (return to the house, now!) Water is spewing everywhere!

What??

I came back to the house to find Jose had broken a water pipe behind the Hot Water heater. In more detail, the guys who repaired our roof had moved the water heater, but did not reconnect it to the exhaust pipe after they were finished repairing the roof. So the Hot Water Heater had been blowing out toxic fumes and dangerous heat for the past 3 months. Jose discovered the error and tried to fix it.

In the fixing, he broke a PVC water pipe. Water went spewing all over the back yard!

We shut the water off to the house and then proceeded to argue over how to fix it.

Long story short, it turns out having a master plumber right next door is very handy. I asked him for his help. He sent one of his employees out right away (8 o’clock at night!). By 9 pm it was fixed. And he only charged me $100.