Charlie:
Sandy over in West Chase says he’s got a 50 gallon 17 year old water heater in the attic, it’s a two story house, and it will not drain. He thinks it’s clogged by sediment. He says he’s getting ready to replace it, and he wants to know, how can he get the water out so it won’t be so heavy to get out of the attic and then, Tom, there’s another part of this, but let’s cover that, first.
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Tom:
Takes me back to my high school days when I didn’t have any gasoline, but my mother did in her car. I got the water hose. I stuck it in there and I siphoned some gasoline out of there.
Charlie:
Oh okay, thank God, I thought you worked your mother over with a hose or something, give me gas!
Tom:
No. Get yourself a clear tube about a quarter inch or half inch clear tube, shove it down the top of it and siphon it out. That’s what you had to do, because you’re never going to get that drain plug to open.
Charlie:
Then what? Run it out the window so it drains out or something?
Tom:
Don’t hit your dog with it.
Charlie:
Or into your bath tub maybe?
Tom:
That could be, your bath tub, run it out the vent on the side, run it somewhere where you can run it safely.
Charlie:
It’s going to run a while.
Tom:
Yeah, 50 gallons, but that’s how you get the water out. I don’t know of any other way except siphoning it. A 5 gallon bucket is not big enough.
Charlie:
Well now for the sequel. Okay, the next movie for this guy, Sandy, is going to be getting the new one up there and he says, and I love this. I’m not real clear on Sandy’s politics here, he says, but with the increase on the diameter of the latest government over reach program. Okay? He says, we’re having to replace our 22 1/2 inch attic stairs so the 25 inch stairs, the new one can be put in the attic. Is that really necessary?
Tom:
There’s a lot of options, there’s smaller ones, there’s taller ones, there’s thinner ones and they’ve made some 40 gallons now. He probably doesn’t probably need 50 gallons of hot water. Getting one of the 40 gallons ones that are a little bit taller, not quite a big around, and the outreach program just made people skinnier and taller. Didn’t make them fatter.
Charlie:
Oh it made people fatter, mostly in the wallets.
Tom:
You know what happens though, if you go to the Home Depots and stuff, and this is where people run into trouble. You’re not going to have a lot of options. Go to a plumbing supply and they have already come up with a solution for that, and they came up with it very quickly after everybody started hemming and hawing, and screaming about the politicians because there’s always a way around that stuff. It’s just a little bit different manufacturing, now.