Heard it again

The running joke around here is we're slowly rebuilding the entire house because of the shortcuts the general contractor who lived here before took. Every time we have a repair person over to fix something we hear "Wow, I've never seen anything like this before." The plumber was shocked to see the toilet had been grouted into the tile floor, the heater installer was shocked to see the heater in our attic wasn't secured to the platform it was sitting on, the guy reinstalling a fan had never seen wiring like ours, the pool people had never seen a pool pump like ours, the list goes on and on and on. Hubs and I actually informally bet on how far into the repair job the person is going to go before we hear the dreaded statement.

Well we heard it again right after Christmas. Our water dispenser on our refrigerator was leaking inconsistently but when it did it dripped at a rate of one drip per second, which can flood a kitchen pretty quickly we learned. So water dispenser fix it guy comes out and tries the easy fix. It just makes it drip more often (thus flooding my kitchen more often, it was awesome the week of Christmas. Cause life isn't stressful enough that week) so he comes back out to do the more expensive sure thing fix. He drags the refrigerator out, disconnects the water source, is intrigued by the tubing and decides to follow it to find the water source for the refrigerator.

And the phrase is uttered. "I've never seen this before." By that he means, I've never seen a refrigerator get its water from the HOT WATER HEATER.

I'll give that a moment to sink in.

Yep. Our refrigerator gets it's water from the hot water heater. Except the water that comes out isn't even warm, it's very cold, so we all decided it must be drawing the water from the pipe right before it goes into the hot water heater. Which lessens the blow a little I guess. At least we aren't powering up the hot water heater every time we get a drink.

Silly me, all these years I thought when the general contractor owner remodeled the kitchen he had a pipe put in under the floor, running from the sink piping to the refrigerator. Nope. He drilled through the wall and hooked up to the hot water heater instead.

Awesome.