One thing that we discovered fairly early on in our stay in France was that there didn't seem to be any hot water heater, and yet we never rsn out of hot water. Then, a couple of weeks ago I got in the shower and waited for the water to get warm. After ten minutes or so, I took a cold shower an resolved to email our landlady as soon as it was day in the US.
I went on my merry way, and headed out to the Auchan to pick up groceries for lunch and dinner. On the way back, I took the elevator because I'm always worried about damaging the shopping caddy ( which isn't actually mine) if I drag it loaded up the steps. Lo and behold, there was a notice taped to the wall informing us that there would be no hot water that day because they were replacing the heating element. Well, one day without hot water isn't too bad.
The next morning there is another notice in the elevator. "The village of Fontenay sous bois needs to replace a bunch of water heating elements, so we're shutting off the hot water citywide from 6 am August 24 until 10 pm August 27. So now we're wrappiing up 4 days of no hot water. I've been heating water in the kettle so that I can wash dishes, and of course showers have been pretty much nonexistant. Tommorow morning we should have hot water, and everyone will be taking a shower. (On the plus side, the shower is really easy to keep clean when no one is using it.). Also, I'm looking forward to running the dishwasher overnight.
According to one of Blaise's friends, these hot water shut downs are an annual part of life in the Paris suburbs, though it usually happens earlier in the Summer.
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