Modern wonders

The water heater is a work of modern technology, the latest in state-of-the-art design, where form meets function and efficiency on the way to convenience.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

The Internet is full of simplistic drawings of water heaters, drawings that leave the highly-curious desirous of more detailed explanations of how cold, sediment-filled water entering your domicile is converted to hot, sediment-free water in practically no time at all.

Water heater cross section

These simplistic drawings miss the most important part of the water heater that any average PhD would know — the water pump!

The water pump hidden inside your water heater, in conjunction with the sediment level detector, pulls sediment-laden cold water from the bottom of the water heater when you open a hot water valve in your home, such as in the bathroom or kitchen.

Cold water holds up to 100% more sediment than hot water due to the quantum effect at an atomic level we won’t go into details at this time.  Suffice it to say that the electronic sediment separator device in the water pump makes sure that cold sediment is cleared from the water heater while flushing out the water line before the water pump switches to pumping fresh, clean hot water to your bathtub or kitchen sink.

 

Did you know that the number one reason your water heater fails is a clogged water pump?

Rarely will a plumber tell you that information.

Instead, a typical plumber’s visit includes convincing you that either you need new thermostats or heating elements, a costly repair; or worse, the plumber will convince you that the leaking water heater is due to corrosion.

 

Here at Modern Wonders, we dispense with the hard selling techniques that force many a homeowner to shell out hard-earned dough for a new water heater.

For a low yearly maintenance fee, we will visit your home up to twice a year and clean out the water pump inside your water heater, providing you decades of life on your water heater.

Not only that, we’ll guarantee that you’ll never have a water pump failure inside your water heater!

 

Give us a call before your water heater’s water pump fails, causing your water heater to overpressurize, forcing a leak out of the weakest weld seam, damaging your floor in the process.

 

We service all brands, makes and models of water heater.

 

Call us within the first 24 hours of you reading this advert and we’ll send a certified technician to demonstrate how a water pump works.

Shower power, not flower flour fluorescing

After 27 years of marriage, my wife and I are the same in many ways.

I stay in the shower/bathtub to dry myself off with my towel when I finish bathing, stepping onto the floor mat afterward, letting my feet completely dry on the mat before walking on.

My wife, however, immediately steps out of the tub and lets her dripping wet body soak the floor mat while she dries herself with her towel.

If I take a shower before her, my feet are dry when I step off the mat.

If I take a shower after her, my feet are again wet when I step off the mat.

After 27 years of marriage, it still surprises me as I take a shower after my wife, finding the floor mat is wet.

And that is one of the secrets to keeping our marriage fresh — the little surprises that I never let become annoying to me, discovering our differences all over again for the very first time.

Cat snacking

Our precious little cat, Erin, a 14-year old Cornish Rex, eats crunchy snacks with his remaining teeth and sits on my lap.  Both his ears are curled after recovering from big blood clots never fully diagnosed (no visible scratch sites from fighting and no mites or other infestations).  He has permanent vertigo, his world constantly spinning, making him walk/stumble with his head turned sideways.

Erin was as surprised as I was to learn that the Federation of Planets, its current headquarters a satellite circling our Moon, issued an emergency passport to Edward Snowden.  The FoP, if you remember, issued its honorary first passport, No. 0000000000000000000000001, to Galileo Galilei and its second to Leonardo Da Vinci, but clearly said it shows no favoritism toward Italy, issuing its third honorary passport to a group of amino acids found inside a meteor that crashed in Antarctica a long time ago but was recently discovered and immediately classified as ultra top-to-bottom secret by the corporate-owned country that sponsored the expedition.

The FoP is in negotiations with the Russian Federation to send a special launch to the International Space Station with Snowden on-board, hoping the ISS will be the first official embassy of the FoP while Moon and Martian headquarters are being designed and constructed.

Meanwhile, Snowden continues his astro/cosmonaut training within a hidden facility of the Moscow airport.

The Chinese government will neither confirm nor deny that it has made room for FoP diplomats in its new space station.

As the morning sun warms the sunroom, Erin hops off my lap and heads to a chair under the skylight, a hint for me to step outside and work on the foundation for the new privacy fence.