I got up to use the potty around 3:00 last night. Imagine my surprise when the toilet seat was HOT! What the..? The toilet was filled with hot (and I mean hot) water. Hot enough that there was something whistling inside the tank because of the steam escaping.
I woke Mike up and he tinkered quietly for a bit (heaven help those who wake the kids up in the middle of the night!!) After about 1/2 hour or so, we decided that it was pretty strange, turned the burner off to the hot water heater (tankless), and went to bed. This morning, there was still warm water coming out of the bathroom sink! Uhm…how’s that possible with a tankless water heater?
I called our trusty plumber (a father to twins himself) and he said he’d come out around lunch time (he lives around us, so that meant he could go home for lunch).
About 3 hours later I thought I’d try to brave a lukewarm shower and noticed that the hot water tap was turned ALL THE WAY ON. We have the type of tub/shower with 4 valves: hot, cold, tub, shower. So the water can be on, but nothing comes out. Ah HA! This explains much! A quick call to Mike to verify that he didn’t turn it on this morning (nope) and a quick call to the plumber to verify that this could cause it (yep) and we’re back in business. (Doesn’t explain the warm water 4 hours after we turned the burner off, but I’m okay with that…)
Chalk another thing up to user error. At least this time we didn’t spend millions to figure out what was wrong 😉
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Well my question would be how did the hot water tap get turned on? Do you guys have gremlins or did someone, somehow forget to turn the tap off last time it was used?
A very good question indeed. Turns out it had been left on from *ahem* SOMEONE’S morning shower…we won’t mention any names, but I will mention that it was “Stinky Thursday” for me, and it wasn’t bath night for the kids….
I am glad you found out the problem before you spent any money. Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog yesterday!
You’ll have to share your plumber’s name with us. We need a good plumber to do a few minor fixes at our house and possibly a major project next summer.