Betsy, At my age, No list is a thing of the past. smile, RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Whitney To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Latest project
Good job. I appreciate a man who will take a list to a store! Betsy At 03:18 PM 10/3/2008, you wrote: >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 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
