Everything seems to break at exactly the wrong time. The pilot light on the hot water heater won’t stay lit suddenly. I researched into it and it seems like thermocouples go out often. It is an $11 part at Home Depot. Basically what it does is stops the flow of gas if the pilot light goes out so gas doesn’t keep building up and causes an explosion.
I took everything apart and decided to just clean the soot off to see if it would work then. That didn’t work so I took it back apart and couldn’t get the clip off to get the thermocouple out. It was super annoying. Finally I got the new thermocouple in from Home Depot and figured it would probably work but it still didn’t work. It was super annoying.
Just the other day my pool pump quit as well and I had to replace the capacitor on top of that.
The annoying thing about that repair is that I just replaced that 8 months ago.
Does anyone know what could be the issue with the hot water heater pilot light not staying on if it isn’t the Thermocouple?
Im just going to be out here screaming at the top of my lungs like a 12 year old girl at a haunted house on Halloween.