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Just more wonderful warm summer weather again today after some heavy rains overnight. Was so nice and refreshing outside this morning , about 7 am close to 75f and humid, smells so fresh after a nice overnight rain. Walkabouts for a while then headed into town for some food supplies, the usual fresh fruit and veggies. But did find a good deal on pork side ribs $1:97 a lb. can't turn that down so 1/2 of that slab will be tonights supper.Shopping done and home for a light lunch then decided to flush out our hot water tank, it's been a while, I think a year ago last january in Desert Hot Springs California, before our speedy trip home in January. I removed the plug and inserted the wand I bought at a yard sale for .50 cents. Does a great job flushing out all the hard water build up in our tank.
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| amazing the scale that comes out |
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| this be the wand |
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| old plug is garbage, they are cheap |
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| the grill mat keeps the grill clean when slatheirng with some sticky tasty BBQ sauce and puts a nice glaze on the ribs |
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| added our green salad and enjoyed some fall off the bone ribs, of course leftovers. |
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Wow...17 years for a hot water heater is unheard of. Way to take care of your house! Great job.
ReplyDeleteRegular preventive maintenance does pay off.
DeleteI know about that rod breaking off inside the water heater. Took a couple of hours to finally get it out.
ReplyDeleteNo anode rod is required in an Atwood water heater, so that would not be a problem, a broken plastic plug is a chore, but I now have a tool to remove it.
DeleteThe key to keeping most anything for any length of time seems to be maintenance, even considering the kind of "throw away" products that we end up with.
ReplyDeleteI truly believe that and do my best to keep on top of things.
DeleteThanks for the reminder. It's time we gave our water heater a flush too. I'm glad you're enjoying the weather. It's hot and miserable here in Florida.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, it pays to keep in touch of these things.
DeleteHas been in the 90's here but cooling down for a couple days.
A little of this, a little of that and yummy ribs to top it off...Ahhh, life is good!
ReplyDeleteThat's right a bit at time and then its all done, then we start over again.
DeleteYes life is good !
Now you have me worried, I recently replaced a failed plastic plug with a brass one. Maybe I will go back to plastic. I also once enjoyed a couple of hours removing a broken plastic plug with a knife, screwdriver and long nose pliers. Fun!
ReplyDeleteI did exactly the same thing and put in a Brass plug after problem with a broken plastic one. Rv tech said the brass is not compatible and could seize in the tank use plastic only especially in an atwood tank.
DeleteO bought a ool In desert Hot springs to remove a broken plastic plug , easy peasy, check posting http://geosuzie.blogspot.ca/2014/12/i-broke-it-and-i-fixed-it-success.html
Smart move, ditching the plastic plug every time. One less thing for Murphy to attack. :c)
ReplyDeleteYup learned my lesson the hard way.
DeleteIt seems if there's not one job to do, there's another.
ReplyDeleteAlways something to look after.
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