Water heater was on a hose, emptying to the outside, since 1pm yesterday... This morning it was still emptying.. I thought I didnt open the release valve big enough and there was still water in the heater.... SO I took the water heater out to empty it..... . and made things worse.... I should have left it connected to the hose and draining to the outside... but we didnt know that the water valve was not closing.... and that's why new water under pressure kept on leaking out of the heater. SInce we took the heater out, now water is pouring out - but at least it is pouring into a bucket and the closet where the heater was is finally drying out, all dosed off with chlorine... So yeah, in some ways the situation is better, all the mold and wet is now drying. And in some ways it is REALLY bad bc we tried to put the hose onto the leaky pipe but the hose doesn't fit and water drips down the hose and causes a puddle in my house.... so I had to take off the hose and directly drain the leaky pipe into a bucket, which fills super fast, one huge bucket of water per hour, with LOTS of noise... I will have to empty the bucket every hour of the night and day..... - so this night, NO SLEEPING ....
weeelllll - I fixed it!!!! Since water dripping down the hose was causing a puddle in my house, I simply put the hose into a bucket.... and that bucket will not get full every hour - majority of the water is draining outside, and the drips from the hose are a little bit.... so yes i can sleep tonight. :)
Well I know a LOT about water heaters now!!!!! The funny thing is that I was able to figure out a lot more than the 2 males helping me. The old man knew how to take off the nuts and bolts and the electric. The young guy knew NOTHING. And I was the one who totally problem solved it. Yay!
The rotten plumber knew what he was talking about - it would be worth 200 bucks to have hired him yesterday. I would have had a clean dry house AND hot water. Instead, I have cold water only, many wet belongings, and a mess in my house.
Because water valve cannot close completely so water is still leaking, big time.... So .... I have a waterfall in my house. The whole place is a mess... everything got wet as we were trying to fix it and take the water heater out and then stop the leak from the main water pipe.
I tried to fix it by connecting the hose to the water pipe to take the water out, BUT bc water drips where the hose attaches, there was a huge big puddle forming and going after all my furniture...
Well at least all of this is happening NOW before I leave so it should be nice and dry and safe when I am gone. Whew.
Wow. Me and my 90 yr old neighbor, the building manager, unscrewed the rusty rings and unhooked the 220V electrical supply and took the water heater off. I took the heater out of my house and cleaned up the wet walls and mold on the walls.
90yr old is a riot - he is Vietnam and Korea veteran, he is over 6 ft tall, and still strong and as sharp as a tack. He helped me with everything and he never feels slighted or whatever, he is so confident that I don't threaten him. He is healthy, he cooks, he knows how to repair stuff, he plays stock market, he owns so many properties, he donates to charity, etc. And he takes good and honest care of our building. Thank you!
And my next door neighbor - who is only 40 but looks like 50 at least - is totally fried by alcohol and pot. This morning he couldn't understand a simple sentence. He smelled of alcohol although it was 10 am.
This evening, when I was taking the water heater out, I was afraid it was heavy, so I called my next door neighbor. It was 5pm. He was completely not cognizant, saying it is a good thing he wakes up at 5am and how lucky I was he was awake. He was ... stoned? drunk? Anyways - he was no help, and luckily the heater was pretty light so I dragged it out on my own! Great! He didn't help me at all. It was good he was there bc I felt safe that someone is watching and I wont get injured. I just wanted him to take the heater to the porch, not downstairs.
THEN I went in and in a second I came out again and caught him trying to take the heater down the stairs. I said NO this will hurt you please stop and I TOOK THE HEATER AWAY FROM HIM
DO you know what he did? He started yelling at me how I am abusing him and that he is never going to help me again bc I am asking too much of him and he doesn't want to get hurt. He told me to call the plumber.
HE DIDN"T DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! NOT ONE THING..... He was out in my house for about 5 minutes, first looking at me taking the heater out, then he stepped one step down and just tilted the heater. He didn't carry it. I didn't ask him to do it.
So this person has shown his true colors and THAT is why he is not married nor has a girlfriend. Nobody will want that.
I also see how people who are small get offended when they are not glorified.
Also, I think he is reacting bc probably he can feel that I don't think highly of him anymore after his dumbness this morning. Yesterday I asked him if he knows how to fix a water heater, and I will pay him 50$ and this morning he said he doesn't. Water heater was still dripping water so he said he would come over and check that. HE TURNED THE VALVE ON claiming he was shutting it down and that the valve is put in the wrong way, so it shuts to the left instead of right. I asked how can that be bc the manager turned it off yesterday in the only direction possible, and that was to the right. And he couldn't answer a simple question about it. He said ok it stopped dripping. I was hoping for the best bc I was late to dance class... and when I came back, I had a puddle in my house.
So yeah I bet he can feel that I don't think that he is intelligent and probably that will tick him off too. His brain is FRIED from pot and alcohol.
SO yeah you are wondering who I DO Think highly of? People better than this. For sure. I am very grateful to my elderly neighbor for helping me this evening.
And me - someone told me that I have to learn how to deal with men because I THINK LIKE A MAN AND THAT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF MEN. So?
My elderly neighbor told me that the younger neighbor yelled and me and dissed me bc his pride was hurt bc I was telling him what to do. Heck if he is that "sensitive" then he is WEAK and he is not a man. He is a little brat. And yeah he is dumb. Sorry I am brutal. That's what I am really thinking. The guy FRIED his brain on pot and alcohol.
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The thing is to survive as a lone woman, and for that - I need the MONEY. That's all. I will have to pay the plumber to come and fix the valve.
ANd I won't be able to count on my neighbor for anything... ANd that's pretty sad. Too bad!!!!!!
When I am gone for 2 months, who will water my plants?
Good news: it was SUPER SIMPLE to take the water heater out. Very simple. It would be simple to plug it back in too. It is all super simple...
Milica
Barjaktarovic
