Posted: Oct 06, 2017 7:27 pm
However, my water heater replacement is done, as far as the water segment of the system goes.
You know, when a project is over, you tend to remember the problems, but forget the successes. I soldered fourteen 3/4 inch copper pipe joints without a leak. Nothing broke during the project. I got one minor cut on my index finger. Every hole I had to bore (three through the exterior wall, one through the floor) was successful, hitting no obstacles on the way through or damaging anything I wanted undamaged. The location of the floor drain hole was, by dumb luck, about thirty centimeters directly on the other side of one of the vented cement foundation blocks through which are already routed the refrigerant and condensate lines for my HVAC system. One more floor drain line coming through it wouldn’t matter. Primus’ arm was small enough to reach through the block and glue the first elbow onto that drain line, which is solely for the drain pan I had to install under the water heater. From there, I was able to complete it from outside the wall. Had that drain location been out of Primus’ reach, it would have been an expedition crawling under half my house. Dumb good luck, I guess.
Finally, the building inspector from the city came by yesterday and inspected my work. No discrepancies. I have to correct nothing. My building project with the city is closed.
I haven’t made the holes in the outside wall for air ducting to the heat pump atop the water heater. It’s gobbling up all of the 700 watts of waste heat that freezer sharing the mechanical room can give it, and it keeps going, cooling that room up to 9 degrees F per heating cycle. I better get to that ducting.
New shit to learn.
You know, when a project is over, you tend to remember the problems, but forget the successes. I soldered fourteen 3/4 inch copper pipe joints without a leak. Nothing broke during the project. I got one minor cut on my index finger. Every hole I had to bore (three through the exterior wall, one through the floor) was successful, hitting no obstacles on the way through or damaging anything I wanted undamaged. The location of the floor drain hole was, by dumb luck, about thirty centimeters directly on the other side of one of the vented cement foundation blocks through which are already routed the refrigerant and condensate lines for my HVAC system. One more floor drain line coming through it wouldn’t matter. Primus’ arm was small enough to reach through the block and glue the first elbow onto that drain line, which is solely for the drain pan I had to install under the water heater. From there, I was able to complete it from outside the wall. Had that drain location been out of Primus’ reach, it would have been an expedition crawling under half my house. Dumb good luck, I guess.
Finally, the building inspector from the city came by yesterday and inspected my work. No discrepancies. I have to correct nothing. My building project with the city is closed.
I haven’t made the holes in the outside wall for air ducting to the heat pump atop the water heater. It’s gobbling up all of the 700 watts of waste heat that freezer sharing the mechanical room can give it, and it keeps going, cooling that room up to 9 degrees F per heating cycle. I better get to that ducting.
New shit to learn.