fresh home build coming soon

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Hmmm... What kind of rationale can there be for condo rules that require water heater replacement?

Just guessing but maybe age requirements from their tendency to spring leaks suddenly causing tons of water damage?

 

[skyking]

Yes this, and almost always not the worst damage in your unit, rather the units below it.
At issue is the lack of built in containment systems that can mitigate these disasters.
Coincidentally he had to vacate his unit for 8 months for fire sprinkler system failure in the unit above his.
Insurance covered a place to stay, but they had to move twice because comparable spaces are hard to find.

 

[skyking]

 

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[deadlyapp]

a small fortune of copper. Don't let the meth heads know.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I got a heat pump water heater a few years back. Very expensive but figure it will save me in the long run. Curious though, is that tank heating the water for the hydronic system? Just wondering how that works from a thermal dynamics standpoint as I would figure it will just be moving heat from basement to upstairs but not changing the overall average temp of the house itself.

 

[skyking]

no, that is the domestic water heater.

 

[skyking]

I brought the 24' long 290 pound lift column today, the last long load to the house. I unloaded it and it is waiting on the board cart for the sheet rock crew to finish the shaft down to the first floor deck.





I had embedded a 4x6 with a piece of 1/2" threaded rod in it for hoisting the column.
I put the eye on there and hiked that chain fall up a ladder and in place.

Then I demoed the 2nd floor safety deck.





This opened up a view I had only imagined on paper.

Picture climbing plants on the right wall.

 

[skyking]

plan the work, work the plan.
Rolled in, tipped and stabbed through the basement wall. It slid in on the edge of the safety deck and nobody had to drop a huevo to do it.
Rig it and hoist to this position.




Then we wrecked out that deck.



Up, over and down to the elevator pit.

 

[IronWing]

Oh, a steel post. I had it in my head that you were installing a big ass tree trunk in that spot.

 

[sdifox]

Oh, a steel post. I had it in my head that you were installing a big ass tree trunk in that spot.

What do you have against op's stripper pole?

 

[skyking]

Oh, a steel post. I had it in my head that you were installing a big ass tree trunk in that spot.

there was a big ass tree trunk in that spot when we started.

 

[Micrornd]

I noticed the strapping on the water heater, are you in an earthquake zone or just cautious?

 

[skyking]

seismic zone D2

 

[skyking]

We put the base bracket on the column, then rotated it and leaned it into the 2nd floor landing so we could mount the 80 pound motor unit. Chain fall FTMFW!


I could reach those lag bolts from the landing, and I got the other side from a ladder in the stairway.



First, note the basement has been sheetrocked. That happened over the last 3 days.
Chain fall is down and the bolt in the ceiling removed.
I set up a plumb bob from the 2nd floor down. That side of the shaft and the landings are spot on, not even a 1/16" across them.
I lined the column up with the plumb line, and noticed a slight variance in the 6' level bubble. Not much, just a fuzz.
So I went looking with the plumb line, and there is a 1/16" bow in the column. It is negligible but I found it.
I got the platform fitted and safety cable.

 

[skyking]

That's a 50 gallon water heater that is hooked up to the hydronics for testing. The heat pump is on the way but we have warm floors today 🙂

 

[skyking]

for those of you who like sciencing, the 4500 watt element in the water heater is 1.26 tons equivalent at the most. It was warm today and it got all the wood floor surfaces to ~70 degrees.

Then I hooked up the basement loops and purged the air one at a time. 6 1/2" loops @240' average.
They purged at ~1 GPM and I added make up water as I went, keeping the system pressure @20 PSI or so.
I surveyed the basement slab at ~55 degrees and now I am sending all the heat at it. It is running between 2 and 2.5 GPM across the 6.
I suspect it will take all weekend to get the slab to 65 degrees.


The PV system made 69KWH a day yesterday and today. We are still running in deficit with heating the house for two mud crews drying out drywall mud, but with any luck we will have the first Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) operating by the end of the week.
All the heating has been done at a COP of 1 with resistive heating.
We can kick that shizzle to the curb and start doing ~3.5 COP heating. That is a game changer,