It’s been a slow start this season as spring has been unseasonably cold, so I wasn’t too excited about sleeping in the uninsulated (and unheated) shed below freezing. Or excited to work in daytime highs around 50F. But I’ve finally gotten up to the place a couple of times and mainly dealt with yard work which included chainsawing several trees that came down in a storm, quite close to the house. Luckily, no damage, so just the minor inconvenience of the cleanup!
This week I focused on getting the tankless hot water heater installed. I’m doing the basic install which includes the plumbing, venting, and mounting. When I complete this portion, then my gas provider will come out to inspect the work and install the gas hookup to complete the installation. Here’s what it looks like at this stage:
What’s missing at the moment?
- Exhaust venting from the top of the unit (needed to order parts for this)
- Condensate drain (same as above)
- Relief valve off the hot water line (part was missing and has been shipped)
- Electrical
I should get all the missing parts by the time I’m ready to go up again in two weeks, so other than the electrical, I should finish with less than another full day of effort.
If you follow the hot water line down from the unit, you’ll see a TEE connector with nothing connected to the right – that’s where the relief valve will go once it arrives. Then it, and the condensate drain, will go down through the floor into the crawl space and out into the yard for drainage.
As far as the electrical, I will be running three circuits to this location – one for the water heater, and one each for the washer and dryer that will be stacked to the right of this sometime in the future.
It feels nice to be making some progress on the interior after lots of previous delays and the final completion of the exterior last fall!
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