Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Hot Water Mystery

My poor sick boys are stuck taking a lukewarm bath again. The same thing happened when I was sick. We can't figure it out. We've never had enough hot water upstairs--yes after almost 4 years in this house we've never found out why! Now, however, it's gotten so bad that we often can't get hot water at all. Last week when I was sick it was not even lukewarm. I don't recommend cold baths and showers when your having stomach issues. We also have no water pressure upstairs. We know this is a Bexar Met issue but when they added tanks last year it should have gotten better not worse. We are very careful not to have anything running when we run the bath but it's gotten so bad even that doesn't help. There seems to be a correlation between the pressure and the temperature level upstairs. Downstairs we can get hot but, alas, no tub or shower down there. To add insult to injury Bexar Met is charging almost $50 a month for improvements. The improvement rate is based on our water bill which went up recently even though we never water. Now we have a bill around $100 for lousy water service!

If any plumbers are out there and know what we should do let me know---I know this is a longshot since only a few people know about this blog but we don't even know where to start.

1 comment:

Janet said...

That is so aggravating! Have you called someone and told them about the problem. It is ridiculous to pay so much more for crappy service! Hope you get it figured out!!