Ice Ice Baby
Last Thursday morning I took a shower and noticed that the water wasn’t very hot. I figured other people must have taken a shower that morning since we usually run out of hot water after 2 showers. I quickly showered while the water was still bearable. When I got home from work, I found out that we didn’t have any hot water still and not since the afternoon. Something was wrong.
After Maundy Thursday service we checked it out. Taft’s acute sense of smell detected gas downstairs. He proposed that the pilot light went out. We started fiddling around with it, not quite knowing what to do. I figured we should look it up lest we blow something up like these guys.
We looked up some directions online and it’s rather simple. We removed the snap-in guard and unscrewed the faceplate under the water heater. We then set the two dials to pilot. We turned on the gas and used a gas lighter to light the pilot light. We turned on the gas and it roared to life. We had to turn it back to pilot to reattach the faceplate less we burn ourselves in the process. We installed the faceplate and turned up the dial and our fire came back to life. Warm water! Crisis averted!
(This was written after the incident but delayed publication due to Passion Week.)