Edging Toward Hot Water

[kevin_standlee]

Our plumber came by this afternoon and discussed with Lisa the exact placement of the new hot water heater. He indicated where he would like Lisa to drill three 1 3/8-inch holes in the floor to take the pipes for the water heater. (This saves us a bit of money because he won't have to charge us for doing it.) He can now order the hot water heater we want and (if all goes well) install it next week. If all goes as planned, I might actually be able to take a shower in the house (instead of out in the travel trailer) when I come home from my next trip to the Bay Area.

Comments

[solarbird]

Honestly, hot water that comes out of a tap when you turn it on is like the most amazing invention ever.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Grouped with "indoor plumbing" I think you're right.

I'm just barely old enough to have a tiny bit of experience with a house that didn't have any indoor plumbing at all (not including camping expeditions and the like) my father's mother's house near Oroville, California. I stayed there for a few nights when I was quite young. The family retrofitted the house with a toilet and running water shortly thereafter. I still have bad memories of that creepy, spider-ridden outhouse.

When we bought Fernley House, priority 1 was to get the water/sewer connections to the RV parking space installed so we could live out of the travel trailer as needed. That came before replacing the cracked under-floor beams.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

Does that mean the house will be entirely habitable soon, or is there still other work to be done?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it will ever be 100%, and no, this won't do it. No hot water to the kitchen yet (Lisa is still considering options for redoing the leaky fixtures there with really nice ones). No stove-top (it's gas, which isn't connected, and Lisa doesn't want to re-connect it until we can get a proper over-stove exhaust installed; the built-in vent is venting the exhaust under the house, which Lisa doesn't like at all. No 220V connection to the large electric dryer (no more space on the circuit breaker box). Nothing at all upstairs (lots of leaky pipes that need replacing). No furnace (no natural gas; no duct-work; Lisa intends to install the ducting herself, which is slow, but saves thousands of dollars in labor). But hot water to the two downstairs bathrooms including the shower is a good start.