Dad’s in town, so it’s a home improvement-palooza this week (hence the lack of posts- Tom, I expect you to pick up the slack for me.)

One of the projects was a preventative replacement of an aged water heater. It went surprisingly well.

There are really only a few things to do: Hook up the cold water pipe, Hook up the hot water pipe, Hook up the Electricity, and Hook up the Drain Pipe.

Fortunately, the replacement was more or less the same size as the old one, and we were able to reuse most of the old connections. The biggest problem we had was draining the old heater, which had so much sediment built up in the drain pipe that the water wouldn’t come out.

With that much sediment (and more rust than I’m comfortable with), I think we dodged a bullet on this one.

Total Time (including an extra trip to Home Depot for some copper pipe and a soldering kit and draining the old unit) was about 4 hours.