this was yesterday morning...
wife woke up at 4am for her morning meeting for work (don't ask.) which of course woke me up.
5:45 rolls around and my alarm goes off, and so does the kid. he doesn't get up.
5:50 my snooze ends, still no kid.
5:55 another snooze and still no kid.
6:00 and you can guess it. wife is now pissed off. I yell at the kid, he gets up.
6:30 he tells me "my shower was cold." i'm still only firing on 1 cylinder at low compression, so it doesn't register really (you can figure where this is going though.)
6:50 and i'm dropping the kid off at school to meet the bus to VOTECH (more on that later.)
7:05 i'm home, and the wife shouts down that there's no hot water.
NOW it hits me... fuck #1. downstairs I go.
blinkie light on the water heater ain't blinking.
restart the heater, light blinks, turn the temp up, and hear the burner kick on.
watch and listen for a minute and I notice the light is blinking weird.
then it stops blinking. fuck #2.
pull the cover off, look through the sight glass, go to try and start the pilot and WOOOMP!
lots of gas ignites, i'm in need of new underroos, and there's water on my face.
wait... water? WTF?
yep, catch pan has like 1/4" of water in it.
ok. why isn't it draining. apparently when I last serviced the heater, the pan shifted and now the tank is blocking the drain port. fuck #3.
get some towels, start the sop and squeeze routine. water is leaving, but not at the rate it should be? does the tank have a leak?!?! fuck #4
check the pressure gauge I have on the drain port. 65# and steady. close off the hot and cold valves and wait. no drop in pressure.
still sopping and squeezing. got most of the water out. now the whole time the furnace has cycled 2-3 times. that's when I see it.
the drain line for the whole house humidifier, has somehow gotten into the catch pan for the water heater. fuck #5
put the hose back in the french drain, finish sopping up the rest of the water in the pan.
ok, one more try on lighting the water heater.
manual open, hit the igniter, hear the reassuring small pop, and the light starts to blink.
wait a minute to see if anything happens, then turn the temperature up.
appropriate whoosh noise, and we got the burner going.
flame color is all wrong though, orange instead of blue.
hoping it's just evap'ing/boiliing water out of the general area so I leave it.
about 10 minutes later we're back to steady blue flame at the sight port.
*sigh*... fuck #6
TL;DR: dumbass me accidentally flooded out my hot water heater burner with the drain line from the whole house humidifier.
FYI; the fuck count could be low by an order of magnitude.
i'm also DEFINITELY having a beer tonight.
eta: oh and the VOTECH thing... so the kid only had VOTECH today, because the high school had a flood after some water line broke over the weekend. ONLY the high school was closed. and the bus took him to VOTECH, but didn't bring him home. fucking hate this school system and their bullshit
