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"Call the police," was my mother-in-law's advancement aback the hot baptize boiler bashed aftermost week. Afterwards my additional algid shower, I declared an emergency.
Marni Jameson
Special to NOLA.com| The Times-Picayune
My bedmate DC's mom, who is 86 and has gotten a bit dotty, is blockage with us for the month. Calling the badge has been her acknowledgment to abounding situations, abnormally because
Russian spies are adjacent and not to be trusted.
A anniversary can feel like a ages aback you accept no hot baptize and your mother-in-law is active with you.
What a week:Thursday: I noticed the hot baptize wasn't blame in. DC alleged for service. Because it's afterwards hours, an automatic arrangement answers and promised addition will alarm in 24 hours. Meanwhile, our electrician, who shall abide nameless for affidavit that will become apparent, was advancing the abutting day for added work, so we asked him to see if our tankless baptize boiler was accepting power.
Friday: The electrician assured us the baptize boiler was accepting power. Mom anticipation the electrician was complex with the KGB. That afternoon DC alleged the accouterments annual back. His bulletin never got conveyed. Now, the soonest a plumber could appear out was Monday morning. Although DC and I can bear a few algid showers, we couldn't accountable Mom to one.
Monday: DC works from home so he could accommodated the repairman. Dispatch alleged and pushed the plumber's accession to aboriginal afternoon, which afresh got pushed to 4:30 p.m. At 5:30, he showed up. He didn't allege English. The plumber had to alarm his accomplice and explain in Spanish what was wrong, so the accomplice could acquaint DC it's the baptize heater's valves. Parts would booty 10 canicule to three weeks to arrive.
"Haven't you heard of FedEx?" asked DC, who now needs a algid battery to air-conditioned off.
He alleged addition plumber contractor.
"He's calling the police," Mom reassured me.
Tuesday: The new plumber, Zack, pulled up like John Wayne. He batten English. He looked at the tankless baptize heater. The valves were fine, but whoever installed it didn't put in cesspool ports. Tankless baptize heaters, we learn, charge annual bloom to apple-pie out minerals that collect. This assemblage hadn't been ablaze back it was put in 10 years ago aback the abode was built. We admiration how it anesthetized inspection.
We told Zack that the assemblage was accepting power. Zack afresh arrested our propane tank. It's active low.
Zack appropriate we get added propane afore we resort to replacing the baptize heater. Tankless baptize heaters aren't cheap.
I alleged the propane company. Our annual day was Monday.
"Six canicule from now?" I asked the scheduler. "Can they appear faster?"
"Only in an emergency."
"My mother-in-law hasn't showered in a week," I said.
"The expediting fee is $150."
I looked at DC. "Pay it," he said.
Wednesday: The propane aggregation abounding the tank. I rushed to the faucet to anticipate the balmy activity of hot water, which didn't arrive.
Thursday: Zack installed the new tankless baptize heater. We still don't accept hot water. Our hearts fell aback we abstruse the electrician was wrong. The baptize boiler wasn't accepting power. The alliance box was corroded. ARGH!!
Though a plumber, Zack got the electricity to run to the new heater.
Hot baptize never acquainted so good. But I capital to book the accomplished cord of amateur workers -- from the antecedent installer who didn't add ports, to the architecture ambassador who absent it, to the aboriginal backward and inept plumber, to the electrician who didn't bolt the electrical malfunction and amount us $3,000 we wouldn't accept had to absorb -- all to a year of algid showers.
DC was added sanguine. "We would accept had to alter the arrangement eventually," he said.
Although I hoped I would never accept to alter a baptize boiler anytime again, I had to acquisition out whether the amount for a tankless baptize boiler -- which is about three times added than a catchbasin baptize boiler -- was annual it.
"Though tankless baptize heaters annual for alone a baby atom of all baptize heaters sold, they are a growing category," said Julie Singh, baptize boiler merchant for the Home Depot. They accept abounding advantages:
Syndicated columnist Marni Jameson is the columnist of two home and affairs books and the anew appear "Downsizing the Ancestors Home -- What to Save, What to Let Go" (Sterling Publishing 2016).
