Yesterday, I attempted to take a hot shower in the morning. It’s cold during the winter, you know, and a nice hot shower in the morning is a nice way to wake, don’t you think? Yeah, I thought so too. Except I couldn’t. I couldn’t have a hot shower, that is. You see, I was 5 the year they put in our water heater here. Yep, 1985 (actually, I turned 6 in 1985, but my birthday is at the end of November, so I’m sure I was still 5 when they put it in). The water gets hot later in the day, but it seems it has problems before 8 o’clock.
25 years is not old. For people, that is. But for water heaters, that’s ancient! There is quite the build up of sediment at the bottom of the tank and I’m sure it’s effitiency is long been done.
I tried to take a hot shower again this morning. And can you guess what it did? Yep, that’s right. The water was too cold even for Damaris. I’m not sure if we will get a new one now, since we have the commercial kitchen to finish (which also includes paying for the license). But we need one in the near future. I don’t think it’s wise to wait until we absolutely need one (meaning it doesn’t work at all), for we can’t be sure we’ll have the money for it at that time. But to buy it now when we have other things we are obligated/need to buy/pay for?… We’ll have to wait and see.
In the mean-time, I need to remember not to attempt a shower before 8 o’clock.