The neighbors were having problems with a old ventless heater and I
recommended they throw it out and get a new one. This one they had was about
15 years old. That got me looking for a heater with a good price tag and
around 20,000 B T U. The ones I was looking at around town ranged from $250
to $300 retail with the thermostat control, oxygen sensor, blower and infra
red. I like them better than the blue flame models. I got on Amazon and
found the Mr. Heater brand that list for $329 and would have cost $300
locally for $185. So being the fellow I am, I got two of them, one for the
neighbors and one for me. Tuesday I installed their with their sighted help
in about 1/2 hours, seeing all the connections were right at my finger tips,
once I removed the old heater. Yesterday I decided to tackle installing
mine. A course the contractor that built my house five years ago, put in as
little fittings as possible and didn't follow my request. My wife showed me
where she wanted the heater installed. No where near the fitting I had
placed for this purpose. Now out cane the kitchen stove, disconnected the
line back to the main gas line. Placed a tee at that location and re-hooked
up the pipe and stove and started on the line for the heater. This time,
with my wife's insistant, I didn't go to the nation wide home centers to get
the material I needed, by went to a locally owned store. I typed out the
material in the way of fittings and pipes I needed. Laid down the list on
his counter, and about a hour later, I was back home installing the gas
lines and fittings. My wife didn't want any pipe or fitting showing and only
5 inches above floor level, seeing the heater either can be use as a wall
mount or floor model. I was lucky, for on the wall the heater was to be
mounted to, there was a closet on the other side of the wall, so I didn't
have to go up through the studs. I ran 7 feet of 1/2 inch pipe from the tee
and 3/8 through the wall and through the floor in the closet, having the
shut off valve in the closet. I than connected the two together with the
corrugated flexible stainless steel gas line for appliances, taking the easy
way out, seeing I no longer own a pair of pipe dies. This project only took
my wife and I about 3 1/2 hours to complete. Now went electric goes out, as
long as the natural gas in flowing, we will have heat this winter, for the
only thing that runs on electric is the blower, It is equipped with a aa
battery electric spark starter.
RJ
