Friday, March 15, 2013

Chilly Wilson

I broke the heater. The heater only heats one side of our house, and in order to push heat to the other side I have to close the valve partially to the kitchen. The heater likes to heat the kitchen and our bedroom upstairs only. I don't blame the heater really.. what's the point of working so hard when freezing cold air comes billowing up through the floor boards?

Anyway, I watched the plumber add water to our system , and magically the heaters turned on. This was months ago when the heat was non existent. I decided to follow suit and did the same, only I really don't know what I'm doing. Water would come flying out of a pipe when I added too much. But the heat would turn on.

Anyway, the heat was not working yesterday... added water.... and then my heater room started to flood with water... and then no heat at all. Wonderful.

The heater guy is on his way. Will be here in 15 minutes... I'm wondering if I should play complete ignorance and not say a word about where all the water came from? Or.... should I just tell him everything I have been doing so he looks at me like a parent and starts explaining to me about how I shouldn't touch his toys.

Screw it, I'm putting on the dumb mask and zipping my lips... lets see if this guy can figure out what I did to break our heater... it will be a test to see how good he is.

I will keep you posted on how he did. Or she... could be a woman. I just made a funny joke.
HA.

Ok Ernie, yes Ernie was his name... and he was awesome. He came in like a knight on a horse and knew exactly what he was doing. He fixed my heater and then showed me how to work it! I did not break the heater after all. It turns out that one of the valves had flipped open and the water valve I like to play with was always supposed to be open. So he closed the valve and drained some water, and then explained to me how the whole system worked and I took notes... cause I'm really dumb, and have no memory for these sorts of things.

 I then repeated everything back to him, and he quickly handed me his cell phone number and told me to call him if it broke... I don't think he had faith in me... I think my lazy eye must have been off again... it makes me look especially stupid.
Oh well, at least it's fixed.
Thanks Ernie!

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