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proninja said:
Last night I noticed some water leaking out of my water heater. Not wanting to wake up to a flood, I shut off the power to it at the circuit breaker, shut off the water to it at the valve, and drained it through a hose outside. At 2am the water finally stopped draining out of it and I went to bed. My wife woke me up at 7 to a semi-flooded garage  (which is half finished) anyway. Not entirely sure how that happened. 

Anyway, I got everything dried and now it's shut closed with heaters going hard. I'll be spending Thanksgiving replacing a water heater. Yay, home ownership. 
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Next time you drain the water heater, make sure the hose doesn't go into the garage

P.S. Do you really need a garage for Thanksgiving? Do it Friday

 
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Henry Ford said:
Well, drain it and flush it every year.  You should notice if it's starting to build up a bunch of crap that will ultimately lead to its early demise.
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I disagree. Messing with it makes it more likely to break, leave it alone ten years and replace when it starts to leak. Takes less time than a combined three years of maintenance.Putting it in one of those round metal pans with a water alarm will give you time to shutoff before the leak becomes a mess.

 
cosjobs said:
I disagree. Messing with it makes it more likely to break, leave it alone ten years and replace when it starts to leak. Takes less time than a combined three years of maintenance.Putting it in one of those round metal pans with a water alarm will give you time to shutoff before the leak becomes a mess.
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That's only potentially true if it's been left without any maintenance for many yea.... oh.  Right.  No, fair point.

 
It's not like I can talk. I'm now done for the week and negotiating the acquisition logistics of combustible party favors for the long weekend.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
never too young for them to work.  Life is all about leverage.   I got my wife to do all my RE paperwork so I can help you out here.
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Just to make sure I'm reading that right.... You get your wife to do your paperwork, freeing you up to post stuff in the FFA. I like it.

 
Just got back from taking the kids to see the balloons being blown up for the Thanksgiving parade. After 30 years, it was My first time doing it.... figured it was a small, local thing with a bunch of upper West side families like Sammy and their friends or people in the know. That's based on hearing about it for the first time... about 30 years ago.

2 hours smashed into massive multi-block long lines before seeing a bunch of balloons. And there was literally no escape and no clue what was going on. Bah humbug.

 
El Floppo said:
Just got back from taking the kids to see the balloons being blown up for the Thanksgiving parade. After 30 years, it was My first time doing it.... figured it was a small, local thing with a bunch of upper West side families like Sammy and their friends or people in the know. That's based on hearing about it for the first time... about 30 years ago.

2 hours smashed into massive multi-block long lines before seeing a bunch of balloons. And there was literally no escape and no clue what was going on. Bah humbug.
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I hate people.

 
El Floppo said:
Just got back from taking the kids to see the balloons being blown up for the Thanksgiving parade. After 30 years, it was My first time doing it.... figured it was a small, local thing with a bunch of upper West side families like Sammy and their friends or people in the know. That's based on hearing about it for the first time... about 30 years ago.

2 hours smashed into massive multi-block long lines before seeing a bunch of balloons. And there was literally no escape and no clue what was going on. Bah humbug.
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Sucker...UWSers know not to even try

 
Henry Ford said:
If you don't do that regularly:

1. You don't know if your T&P valve works.  That's very bad.

2. You aren't ever relieving the interior pressure on the water heater.  That's also very bad.

This is how they explode. You also need to flush the water heater once a year, but that's something many people pay someone to do (or you should at least watch a YouTube video for.)  Too many steps to just type out.  I'd forget something and you'd die and I'd feel guilty.
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Does the interior pressure need to be relieved if  you have an attached expansion tank?

 
Oh yes, all the water heater talk is definitely more scintillating than math.  

 
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proninja said:
Last night I noticed some water leaking out of my water heater. Not wanting to wake up to a flood, I shut off the power to it at the circuit breaker, shut off the water to it at the valve, and drained it through a hose outside. At 2am the water finally stopped draining out of it and I went to bed. My wife woke me up at 7 to a semi-flooded garage  (which is half finished) anyway. Not entirely sure how that happened. 

Anyway, I got everything dried and now it's shut closed with heaters going hard. I'll be spending Thanksgiving replacing a water heater. Yay, home ownership. 
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The valve you shut off, was it the inlet or the outlet?

 
proninja said:
Stuff the turkey? What do you take me for?

I butcher it, dry brine it, and cook it in 5 pieces - breast, quarters, wings. White meat to 145, dark meat to 165. ;)
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That's pretty much what I did, but the backbone went into the stock pot.

I'm really considering braising one of the thighs, but I think I'll do that next month.

I have a 17lber I quatered and dry brined last night..Wil roast on highish heat tomorrow morning. What do they call it? splzatching or something? I did it once by chargrilling half an hour skin side up then roasting the top. Worked reall well, but I no longer have a large enough chargrille.r

 
Actually I'll throw at least half a bird over the stuffing so it drips goodness into it.

When I pull it out of the fridge in the morning, I'll jamb a bunch of fresh rosemary & sage and butter between the skin and flesh before roasting

 
proninja said:
spatchcocking is when you cut the back out and lay it flat. 

Have you considered re-acquiring a large enough chargrille.r?
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Nah, I just don't cook for that many anymore. I still have two commercial smokers and all kind of other stuff, tho. What I use the most is the big daddy vac sealer.

 
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