Redwolf's Journal (continued)

A warm shower and running dishwasher. Yay! So far, the new water heater install seems sound, though I imagine I'll be watching pretty closely the next few days. I'm cautiously optimistic, at least...

Annoying weekend with a lot of work and little accomplishment. I had Friday off, but started out Thursday night with the discovery the water heater at home was leaking. So that night was a lot of mitigation - soaking up water with towels to throw into the dryer, shutting off the water line into the heater, setting the fan to blow over wet carpet, etc. Friday, I started out calling plumbers to come look at it. That seemed reasonable. The first call, they said they couldn't get anyone out before Monday. I went on to the next where they took my info and said I'd be called back. Over the next couple hours of waiting, I learned a little and drew some conclusions. For one thing, I saw part of the back of the water heater looked buckled. It was against a wall, so I couldn't get a good luck, but by the time I emailed and finally got a reply saying that second plumber I called wouldn't be available for a couple weeks, I'd drawn a few conclusions: 1) The water heater needs