$85.\u00a0 That is what I paid yesterday to find out how little I know yet about our fifth wheel.\u00a0 I think I have mentioned that the water heater has been misbehaving.\u00a0 Nothing but hot water (in both hot and cold feeds!) one day, nothing but cold water the next.\u00a0 We might have hot water for showers, then no hot water at all an hour later.\u00a0 It seemed for a while that it was only cranky when using electricity, but then on Sunday we couldn’t get hot water even when using gas.\u00a0 It was possessed.\u00a0 With the grandkids in residence we had to take action.\u00a0 So we found a guy at the campground who was a competent RV repairman.\u00a0 He agreed to look at it for his standard $85 “house call” fee.<\/p>\n
It took him about a minute to identify the problem: the water heater had not been properly de-winterized.\u00a0 I *thought* that the previous owner had de-winterized the coach before I took possession.\u00a0 I *thought* I had asked him about that.\u00a0 Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t.\u00a0 But in any case it hadn’t been done.\u00a0 At least not correctly or completely.\u00a0 And, to be fair to him, he was a relative newbie as well and it would have been just his second de-winterization so maybe he didn’t know how to do it right either.<\/p>\n
Something about the bypass dohicky not being connected to the thingamajob.\u00a0 I will talk to the repair guy again to get the details right so that it won’t happen again.<\/p>\n
Of course de-winterization won’t be an issue if we avoid winter.<\/p>\n
But I still have to learn all these things.\u00a0 At $85 a pop I can’t afford to be ignorant for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
$85.\u00a0 That is what I paid yesterday to find out how little I know yet about our fifth wheel.\u00a0 I think I have mentioned that the water heater has been misbehaving.\u00a0 Nothing but hot water (in both hot and cold feeds!) one day, nothing but cold water the next.\u00a0 We might have hot water for … Continue reading