A New Water Heater

 So a couple of days ago. Like...Friday? I think? Who knows. The days kinda merge together at work if you're working every day.

In any case. A couple of days ago.

One of the people at the Vet office that shares space in our store came to inform us that at some point a plumber would be dropping by to check out the water heater in our store.

Which was news to us.

As we weren't aware that a work order had been placed for anyone to come look at that heater.

Though honestly, I knew it needed to be looked at a good three or four years ago.

It was like...three managers ago that I was like "Hey...I don't think the water heater in the back is working anymore."

And I'm guessing that we'd already done too many work orders and gone over budget that year or something....

But the Head Manager in charge was like "Oh no, it works, you just have to have the wait a bit for the hot water to come on."

Ha.

I brought it up a couple of times after that point...but none of the managers ever did anything about it.

So for the past three years or so...we've had no hot water to half our store.

Aka The Bathrooms.

As the area behind the fishwall and our grooming area is connected to two other water heaters on the opposite side of the store.

So they weren't an issue.

In any case.

Apparently the Vets had some maintenance people in to go over a checklist of things that haven't been looked at recently and may need to be fixed.

And someone at the clinic brought up that they haven't had hot water in a while.

Which...I hadn't realized that the Vet didn't have access to hot water...I mean it makes sense. They're on the same side as the one water heater...but I halfway thought that they had their own water heater.

Like...why would the vet not say anything for years about it? *shakes head*

No idea.

In any case. The maintenance person was the one who called in a work order for a plumber -one affiliated with our company- to come check out the water heater and see what was up with it.

There were multiple things up with it. 

Namely that the water heater was from 2015...so it was 6 years old.

Who knows how long they're good for. But considering that it had only a 3 year warranty...and it's been off for like 3 years....yah not a long life span.

The poor thing had it's air intake valves coated in fur and debris -typical in pet stores- and when the dude finally got the pilot light to light...it would only stay on for like a minute before turning back off again.

Again because even with a shop vac...there was still a ton of stuff clogging the air intake areas. 

There were also other smallish issues with it. Like the fact that the bottom half had been dented at some point by something 'ramming' into it.

And the fact that the water heater had been bolted into place with metal straps...and the metal bolts had been drilled INTO the water heater...not the safest thing and no longer standard.

The end result after the dude's assessment?

He was going to recommend a new water heater for us. 

Which cool. That's nice. Company will probably say no, or it will take like a month or two to actually get it fixed.

....I was wrong.

The plumber dude showed back up today to install the new water heater. 

Though they ended up having to drive an hour away to the next valley to pick one up and bring it back as they couldn't get one delivered to the store.

But yah.

After a few hours and tweaks.

We finally have a new water heater!

After three years lol. *shakes head*

Amazing. 

I don't know why that was such a quick fix....like I'm grateful and I'm sure the vet is grateful.

But it's so crazy they were able to solve that particular problem first thing....

When we've had an issue with our alarm system setting for a week now...and they've yet to send any out to fix that problem.

...Priorities I guess...

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi