Goodbye hot water

[diannescruffy]

Our hot water service has died, great timing and for now we can't afford to have it replaced so we are back to the good old days of boiling water on the stove for baths, got to love it.

Regards,
Dianne

[Little Chicken]

Is it definately completely dead? Ours is electric and we thought it had died but it was just the thermostat

[~clover~]

that sux. If its electric though it'll save on power

[diannescruffy]

Definately has died, my friends husband is a plumber and I called him to have a look. It is 22yrs old, he was surprised it lasted this long.

Regards,
Dianne

[Little Chicken]

Aaawww that really sux.

[AnyDream]

Dianne, have a chat to your electricity/gas providers. Some of them have a scheme where you don't pay for anything up front, they just add it to your bill over a couple of years.

ETA - a good method for bathing with no hot water is to fill a bucket (1-2 kettles is enough in a large bucket, fill the rest with cold water). Use a cup/scoop. Stand in the shower recess. First wet yourself down with a cup or two, then soap and lather, then use remaining water to wash everything off. Seriously 1 bucket is totally enough for a person (even to wash shampoo out of hair), and much more efficient than trying to put a couple of inches into the bottom of a shared bath.

This is how we bathed for a month after the Longford gas plant blew up in 1998. Totally do-able.

PS I didnt' really say I'm sorry, and how sucky and inconvenient it is. I had a massive meltdown when our HWS had a blow-out last week (but mine turned out to be fixable) so I totally understand the boo-hoo. But you're amazing Dianne, you will conquer this like everything and then it'll be onwards and upwards.

[luna moth]

that sucks...

Wish I could move you all up here for a while - this time last year we turned our hot water off from end November until end Feb, when it started cooling down. The water from the cold tap runs at 30 degrees in summer.
Annoyingly, though, we went to turn it back on, and it was broken! And by then it was cold enough that cold showers weren't fun anymore!