All of a sudden our water started heating up super hot - hotter and hotter until it flipped the breaker (or whatever it is called) on the water heater. So Thomas and I decided to try to learn how to fix a water heater! I was feeling quite overwhelmed and that maybe we were getting in over our heads this time, but we really did learn a lot and once we got into it, it wasn't quite as overwhelming. Things didn't go perfectly - it took about 3 or 4 days (not entire days, usually evenings) of work. Thankfully our water heater still heated the water fine, so we had hot water to use (we just had to be careful and keep the kids away from the faucets). We switched out one of the thermostats and still had the problem. We then changed both elements out. While getting started on that we thought we had the tank drained but found out we didn't - the hard way. Thankfully we didn't have too much on the ground and were able to quickly move a couple of boxes out of the way of the flood. We still aren't sure what we did wrong with that, but now we knew the tank was really empty! The other thermostat was showing that it was working so we eventually had to call someone to come look at it after all that work. He said that all our work looked good and he was stumped! He said he'd replace the other thermostat just in case, but he didn't think that was it, and then we'd need an electrician to come look at the wiring. At that time we discovered something weird with one of our electrical breakers going out to the pool pump, and fixed that issue, so we are not sure if that had anything to do with our water heater problem, but after that it was fixed! It made us feel good that all of our work was done right and we learned a lot in the process!
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