I bought another water heater like the one I was replacing because I
knew I could install it myself. I looked at the tankless option, but I
was uncomfortable about where I was going to mount it & how I was going
to vent the exhaust gas. And it would have required me to run a bunch of
new pipe.
Most of my work on this job was cleaning up the mess in the basement to
make room to work on the water heater & wrestling the old water heater
out of the basement, then wrestling the new one into position. I took
the time to inspect the chimney pipe & re-tape all the joints using
metal foil tape (that was the second trip back to Home Depot - first
trip was for a new gas connector line after I read the label that said
don't re-use the old one).
On 8/6/2013 4:19 PM, steve harley wrote:
on 2013-08-06 10:28 John wrote
As of 2:00am this morning, I have it again.
My old hot water heater sprang a leak late Saturday afternoon.
Best I can figure, it was about 16 years old. I managed to get a
replacement Sunday evening & spent the day Monday installing it.
when ours went (about 5 years ago) we sprang for an externally
mounted tankless heater; it cost much more, but regardless of the
long term ROI, and the fact that hot water never runs out, the
closet we gained was worth the price in our small house; didn't
self-install — it took a little over a week to arrange, but being two
blocks from a city rec center it was manageable
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