New water heater project. Just another typical job.

[chilipeppermaniac]

Well, I finally got a non raining day. Made good headway and made it up to the point of pouring a little concrete pad for the new water heater to sit on.

After sliding the heater down the hole on 2 planks, I unboxed it and needed my girlfriend to help guide it into the general area near the pad as I wait for it to harden enough to set it in place. I can't wait to get the plumbing buttoned up and the gas lines reconnected.

 

[eSGEe]

lack of hot water can make one cranky----- perhaps its just me.....

 

[Session 5]

It can, I know from experience.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

lack of hot water can make one cranky----- perhaps its just me.....

HAHA Wait till you see the work zone. If I got cranky just from no hot water, I should go stark raving mad just knowing all I would have to tackle to complete the repair.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Well guys, here is the end result. 11 PM and we were showerin and doing dishes.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Here is the Mudslide Slope under the Bilco door that leads down to the dirt basement. It may seem weird seeing laundry everywhere, but it turns out I found a box of old men's shirts down in the hole and I was able to use them for sopping up mud and water so I could get less slippery traction.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

My Pathway to and from the water heater location. Narrow, wet, low headroom and of course messy.

 

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[chilipeppermaniac]

I had to shoehorn the new heater between that rock wall to the left and the ductwork to the right and overhead. It was a hump but my girlfriend and I got er dun

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Here is the wall of dirt the secondary part of the house sits on above the crawl space. Nothing like a 170+ year old house to wrestle with.


Concrete pad I put the heater on.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Just for fun as the old water heater ruptured and sprayed water all over the ground enough to keep the sump pump working overtime, we also were in the midst of a 2.5 day rain/frozen rain mix of slop to contend with. Thankfully today was dry finally.

 

[Truss_rod]

Final product looks good, nice job. I was a maintenance manager for a 4 apartment complex's " 140 units all together and if I had a dime for every water heater I changed I could have bought a guitar or two...

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

T Rod. I hear ya on the large numbers of heaters one can replace.

As you can see by my pics, this was anything but a Normal or simple job. To say the biggest challenge was doing my first Gas fired one would miss the mark. The biggest challenge was trekking around in slop, the tight confines, and basically wrestling it by myself. The good news is I made it.

WOO HOO the shower felt great.

 

[Truss_rod]

I bet it did. Now please don't take this the wrong way but did you do a leak test on the gas line?

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

No offense taken, T rod. Yes

 

[eSGEe]

Well done man damn well done!!!

 

[Session 5]

Well done for sure Chilli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BlackSG91]

Right on me little BIG buddy...Hurricane Nancy would be proud of you!


;>)/

 

[Sp8ctre]

Wow! I've never seen a dirt basement! That must be some pain to have a waterheater and other such items down there!

 

[Hackmaster]

Wow, that's a good old fashion root cellar.

Great work Chilli. One can only imagine what a struggle that was.
You conquered and overcame some serious obstacles to pull that off.