We were down to our last clean plate.
The dishwasher needs hot water to run properly. Our 15 year old hot water heater had succumbed to old age — and it was the weekend. Sigh. . . . Sure we could have taken the dishes out and washed them by hand — boiling water in a kettle. But that didn’t solve the shower issue.
So we called the plumber and he came and brought a new, larger, hot water heater. it heated up in about an hour and a half. Enough time for me to take a quick, rapidly cooling shower. Poor Bruce had to bathe in the sink. The problem was not entirely solved.
The next morning we called the electrician. Unfortunately we needed to update the wiring to the fuse box and the heater. Five hours and many dollars later, we had lovely and very hot water. Now we’re set for another decade and a half.
