I'm in Hot Water

My Dear Hubby thinks in mysterious, but interesting, ways. Today as we were finishing our morning walk, he asked, "Now, if you needed to turn off the water going to the hot water heater, how would you do it?" Even though he's shown me before, I couldn't remember at the moment. But when I opened the door to the hot water closet, I found he had made it abundantly clear. Notice in the picture, he wrote on the hot water heater with a Sharpie marker -- how to shut it off, when it was installed, the dates he drained it, etc. (It needs to be drained once a year to clear sediment from the bottom.) If your hot water heater is leaking, it might just keep filling up with water as it drained out -- not a good thing. So, take a hint from Dear Hubby and make an emergency plan, which might keep you out of hot water....

At some point, we're going to switch over to a tankless hot water heater, but that's a story for another day.