Serpentfire666
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When HP maxine said Satan watches over us she sure wasn't kidding.
Here I was thinking it was just inconvinient our hot water heater broke down
(electric) Ive been bitching and joking about it.
meanwhile I never even knew I had a timebomb sitting right under my room, almost
under my bed.
Its a 23 year old heater, it broke down a year ago and we had the element
replaced. Now it broke down again, but it was the overflow valve so the unit was
still heating but the water was running out and flooding the garage.
In the corner of the room is a gas cylinder under the house. Its my mums house
she will never fix anything, I couldnt lift or move the cylinder it wasnt
leaking so it just stayed there and I forgot about it, yeah I know stupid.
Its within a few meters of the hot water heater. So last night my friends
partner who had been in another city a few months had just got back up here, so
my friend asks him if he would mind checking our heater. The timing of this is
uncanny he knows all about these things.
He comes round and looks it all over, looks inside and sees the circuit board is
cooked. We were at serious risk of a fire the element was running dry heating
air and the circuit board had already melted. It could have caught fire while we
were asleep and the gas cyclinder could have exploded. So all the power
downstairs is now shut off, and Im getting someone to come take away the
cylinder and we get a new heater.
It could be a coincidence but the fact is if he had not come round today the
element would still be heating up and anything could have happened. So...
HAIL SATAN!
Here I was thinking it was just inconvinient our hot water heater broke down
(electric) Ive been bitching and joking about it.
meanwhile I never even knew I had a timebomb sitting right under my room, almost
under my bed.
Its a 23 year old heater, it broke down a year ago and we had the element
replaced. Now it broke down again, but it was the overflow valve so the unit was
still heating but the water was running out and flooding the garage.
In the corner of the room is a gas cylinder under the house. Its my mums house
she will never fix anything, I couldnt lift or move the cylinder it wasnt
leaking so it just stayed there and I forgot about it, yeah I know stupid.
Its within a few meters of the hot water heater. So last night my friends
partner who had been in another city a few months had just got back up here, so
my friend asks him if he would mind checking our heater. The timing of this is
uncanny he knows all about these things.
He comes round and looks it all over, looks inside and sees the circuit board is
cooked. We were at serious risk of a fire the element was running dry heating
air and the circuit board had already melted. It could have caught fire while we
were asleep and the gas cyclinder could have exploded. So all the power
downstairs is now shut off, and Im getting someone to come take away the
cylinder and we get a new heater.
It could be a coincidence but the fact is if he had not come round today the
element would still be heating up and anything could have happened. So...
HAIL SATAN!