Well, after a post about bats and what we haven't done to get rid of them, I felt compelled to add a post detailing a finite problem that we actually fixed. Just need a little bit of closure, thank you very much.
A few weeks ago, we found ourselves to be out of hot water. We relit the pilot light and hoped that was the issue. The next morning, the pilot light was again out. Water was still cold.
After a few minutes of devoted Internet research (honestly, how DID people own houses before the Internet?), it seemed the likely culprit was a faulty thermocouple. We found the part at Dey Distributing and it was installed by the SO that evening. Happy day!
It should be noted that we had some difficulty with determining the proper length for the thermocouple. We found the only true way to determine the proper thermocouple length is to remove the old thermocouple and measure. Since I was the one at home, thermocouple removal wasn't in the cards. We then found that thermocouple length really doesn't matter as long as the thermocouple can be looped and fit into the available space. We ended up replacing our 18" thermocouple with a 36" thermocouple. And it works just fine.
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