Last night around 10 Barry noticed there was a wet spot on the kitchen floor.  Uh oh!  Sure enough, the pipe to the hot water heater is dripping.  We had a problem with it in the winter, Barry had patched it up and made sure he bought the parts we need to fix it but hadn’t gotten around to installing them.  The major problem with this situation is the main shut off valve doesn’t work!  So we had to fix it with the water running.  We got soaked!  We got it patched last night then installed the new hardware this morning when we had time to think about it.  We put a fan on and it was mostly dry in the morning, we managed to not spill too much this morning… it went pretty smooth.  So the next step is to replace that main shut off!  It’s in the crawl space so not a fun job… it will get very wet!  Luckily I have never had to go down there!!  
Our baby hot water tank.  

Stay tuned…