The old and the new

Yesterday morning Rex got up and went to the golf course to hit a bucket of balls. When he came home he said he thought our water heater was leaking because his golf towel was wet when he got it this morning (our golf clubs are right next to the water heater). He took me out to show me, and sure enough that thing was slowly LEAKING. It was making the box it was sitting on VERY soggy and starting to look a little moldy.

(don't ya think it's about time that we switched it out? It is the
original water heater from when the house was built in 1990.)

As I thought about it during the day, I remember thinking how funny our garage smelled when I'd open the garage door and pull in the van the last few weeks. Then I remembered that I did see some water on the ground over by there about a month ago, but at that time it was a passing thought and I didn't think anything more of it. If I had, we could have caught it a little sooner and probably wouldn't have had to replace the sheet rock on the box.

Today Rex made several trips to Lowes, and about $600.00 later, we have a new water heater with new connections and all. Even an aluminum tray that fits underneath it just in case it decides to leak again, we won't have the messy mess that we had this time.

Thanks to Dave Smith and Tracy Foutz for all their help. It's great to have friends and neighbors that are willing to pitch in and give us some of their expertise.The OldCleaning the box upon where it sat

The New

Getting it all hooked up

The best part of all was the HUGE box that the heater came in. It became a drawing board for Evan and Mason. They set that thing up and started drawing and coloring away. Eventually they came up with the idea that I needed a dressing room to get dressed in, so that's what it became. When Rex put it in our room, I did think it was a lovely screen like they use in bedrooms to break up the space a little bit. The three boys all loved sitting inside it and would have us close it up like a box.Making my "dressing room"

The finished product