Thanks both of ya, morningwood and brenndatomu . You'll have to keep an eye on me, I might need more help in the future plus it's nice to have someone to bunce ideas off of. I'll definitely be putting a 30a breaker in the box rather than a 60a. I even looked at the 100a breaker that feeds a subpanel and thought how can a water heater need 60a. Ol' Pro Services installed this water heater in the old spot. I guess i should know that just because they have pro in their name doesn’t make them a pro.
I got more plumbing done where i can finally start repluming this master bath and still have a shower and toilet work in the other bath. So i ran 3/4" line, hot and cold, from the new water heater location to the bathrooms at the bedroom end of the house. Heres where they came out in the linen closet. Temporary location until bathroom is redone. 1/2" line got connected here and ran to toilet and shower. Where i tapped into the existing lines to keep a toilet and shower working. Forgot to take a picture with the pex connected before i put the wall panel back on. New lines at water heater.
So with using 3/4" line for that distance from the WH (HWH ) have you considered using an undersink on demand hot water recirculator to reduce the wait time/water waste for hot water to get to the far end of the house? For anyone not familiar, its basically a pump under the far sink that you turn on when you need hot water and it just pumps out of the hot water line, back into the cold water line, until the hot water gets there, then you turn it off...this method eliminates running any extra lines.
I'll definitely be thinking about it. Wasnt aware there was an on demand circulator available. I've heard of a circulator before but my understanding was they ran all the time. It's just me here so that wouldn't have made much sense. What would be the difference, when using a circulator like you described, from turning on the circulator vs turning on the hot water at the sink? I can see it saving water but i don't understand how it would cut down on wait time for hot water. If you have a link explaining it i sure don't mind reading.
Low flow fixtures restrict the flow and can make it take a couple minutes for the hot water to get there...whereas with the on demand circulator you can just let 'r rip.
Good point. I forget about the whole gpm limitations and government overreach. The old school faucets here can't be beat for flow! Ain't no restrictor on this one!
brenndatomu Well the on demand thing sound very viable until i saw the price tag. Instant Hot Water - Recirculating Pump
That link wont open, but I'm sure they are spendy from the wrong place...here is a quick Menards search, or I'd be tempted to just adapt up any kind of small 120v circulator pump that I could find for reasonable $...but if you are there by yourself, then it may be a non issue anyways... Watts® Hot Water Recirculating Pump
That's a little more plausible. The one i linked started at about $750 and went up to about $1400. But they have the option of a motion sensor to activate the pump! Lol
Alright it's been a min since an update. Haven't made alot of progress visually but have got stuff organized and planned out that the tub and shower surround should go in pretty quick the next day or two. Went and got the rest of the supplies yesterday, now to actually do the work. Now to get yall caught up with pictures. All the old galvanized pipe outta the wall. Gonna leave the drains. Alcove kinda prepped. I'm a visual type person so i put the tub in place to get some motivation and see how everythings gonna line up. Then came the fun part of designing/connecting the drain. The house is on a slab so it's not like i can just go downstairs and hook it up. Here's where the drain is. It's 1 1/2 steel threads. So i cleaned them (threads) up with a wire wheel and a plastic 1 1/2 drain nut threaded right on. (Test fitting) Now to get the tub outlet and drain inlet lined up. Found a double sink drain kit at menards that fit right on with a thick rubber washer and an immediate elbow which should help with the low profile, height wise, of the drain system. It should be pretty close and obviously slightly adjustable with the slip joints. I'll know better once i get the tub in place, take the adjacent bedroom wall paneling off, and see if there's enough room to fit my arm in there to hook everything up.
Got the tub mortarred into place and drain connected. Here's the access i had to work in to connect the drain. Under the shelf view. Got it sized and connected. Hopefully these shows how tight it was. In place. Drain connection was made in the open bay in the back right.
Jeffrey, what program did you use for this? Is it free? Hopefully moving in 2026, very big room will be kitchen, dining and living room. I want washer/dryer in there too.
Ehh..... it's been a long time coming. Just takes some thinking and making up ones mind. Now that doesn't sound fun. Lol Luckily it's only me here and my bed has been set up in a different room for a couple years now. I have another usable shower and toilet so it's no inconvenience really. Should be nice once it's done though. Ummm..... parts of it are free. Lol. The actual fancy outline/drawing of the house came from an appraisal of this house when i bought it. I just printed it out. Now for the colored pencil part...... that's all me.
