Feelin' Hot Hot Hot

Our water heater was running out of hot water after about 15mins.  It's fine for me.  I never take anything more than 5-10mins.  But these other two people in the house like to take either a long bath or a long hot shower.

So I ended up getting a new water heater from Lowe's on sale and replaced it just a few days ago.  There were no leaks from our existing one.  But it just couldn't keep up with demand any longer and there's only 3 of us.  If you do laundry or wash dishes, or both.  Well you won't have any hot water for a shower never mind a bath.

Our old one was installed in 1996.  And it just wasn't able to provide the same amount of hot water as before.  It's declined quite a bit in the last few years.  I probably should have replaced it when I got the furnace done.  Not sure why I didn't.

This new one is awesome.  We can now take long hot showers or baths.  It used to be that the last person to use the shower would have about enough time to soap up with some warm water but after that it was a chilly rinse off.

I initially had the temp on the controls at B but that was too hot. I lowered it to A, and even that was too hot.  So it's now down to just HOT.  Which is the lowest temp setting and that's hot.

HOT is supposed to be 120 deg F.  So I had to adjust the temp setting on the shower controls upstairs because the water was so hot coming out of the tap.

It's all good now.  New bath and lots of hot water.