Thursday evening we turned on the hot water to find that we had none. Scottie gets his tools and his meter to go see what's wrong. He took the meter and checked the voltage and it was getting plenty of juice. So, Friday Scottie goes and gets one element, (those units take two - an upper and lower). He drains the water out when he gets home from work Friday evening and goes to replace the lower element but can't. Out of all the tools he owns, and believe me when I say he has lots of them, he didn't have a tool big enough to screw the new element in. So Saturday he goes and buys the tools he needs for the job. Bang, we are back in business. In no time we have really really really hot water!!! Scottie has to go back under our house to adjust the temp on it because #1 we don't want to get scald but #2, and most important, we don't want our little man to get scald. Even with turning it down it still gets quite hot....lol. After a couple of cycles of using it the things goes out again. Oh brother!!! This was late Saturday when it went out again. My son and his cousin got their baths and Scottie was able to get a Shower Saturday evening but when I went to get in the Shower there was no hot water. So off I go to my moms to take a shower. I wasn't going to church Sunday morning without one...lol. Sunday after church Scot gets back under the house to find out what the problem is and a wire had come loose. He reattached the wire and now we have hot water again. A $10 part and $20 in tools got us back in business. Praise The Lord!!!! $30 to fix vs. $200 or more to replace. We are so thankful to God! I'm thankful for several reasons, #1 For God giving my husband mechanical skills - he can fix most anything, #2 For it only costing $30, #3 For having hot water again. We will be married four years in November and the hot water has never worked as good as it works now. Scottie figures we've been getting heat from the upper element all these years and it finally burnt out. There's no telling how long the lower one had been out. I was able to take a shower this morning and shave and still have plenty of hot water when I was done. Before the shower would always run cold before I could finish. Amazing!!!! Thank you God for hot water! I've included some pics. The first one below is of Scottie under our house taking the covers off to see what is wrong with our 1984 water heater.
These next pics are of the old lower element. The black stuff on it is sediment that had built up on it over the years (we have well water - need I say more...lol).
The upper element has just as much sediment. With all that sediment built up on the elements I'm surprised we were able to get the hot water we were getting. Pretty impressive to say the least. Don't take for granted the little things. Not having something for several days has made me even more thankful for what we have been blessed with. God is so good to us!
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