I do know this isn’t a enjoyable subject, and I’m as anxious as y’all are to get to the gorgeous stuff in our bed room suite, however I’d love your enter on this. As you already know, in the event you’ve been following this undertaking, my plan is to show our present visitor rest room right into a storage closet before later. And the half rest room in my studio will turn into our major visitor rest room.
After we purchased the home, the sunroom was simply an enormous, open, and type of awkward room. I initially thought I may salvage it, however I quickly realized that that wasn’t an possibility as a result of it doesn’t have an acceptable flooring. The ground in right here is simply layers of plastic, particle board, extra plastic, and industrial carpet positioned over concrete that I’m assuming was a patio. So with the room not having an excellent basis, there was no want in spending cash to restore something above that basis.
Nevertheless it was, at the very least, an excellent non permanent location for washer and dryer hookups, which the home didn’t initially have. And it was an excellent non permanent location for a scorching water heater because the unique location was on the far finish of the storage, as far eliminated because it may have been from the entire precise sources of water inside the home. Since the entire plumbing needed to be redone anyway to eliminate the outdated galvanized metal pipes that had been so corroded that they might solely let a trickle of water via, we went forward and had the new water heater moved to a way more centralized location, and the one location obtainable on the time was the nook of the sunroom, which occurs to be simply on the opposite aspect of the hallway rest room. You possibly can see the place the unique window was within the hallway rest room above the washer and dryer.
Little did I do know that that “non permanent” resolution for each of these would final for 12 years. However now, my washer and dryer lastly have a brand new (and far prettier) house in my walk-in closet.
And after 12 years of dreaming concerning the day that I can tear down the room that’s (nearly jokingly) known as “the sunroom”, our present scorching water heater is the final remaining fastened component that’s stopping us from with the ability to tear down that room.
Don’t get me unsuitable. The room is stuffed to the brim with stuff. Nevertheless it’s nearly all stuff that I can both eliminate as a result of I gained’t want it anymore (i.e., stuff that got here out of the hallways and visitor bed room), or stuff that may ultimately be relocated to my workshop as soon as I get it organized.
And that simply leaves the new water heater as the ultimate fastened component within the room that forestalls me from taking a bulldozer to this room.
As I mentioned, the brand new location for the new water heater will probably be what’s now the hallway rest room, which is simply on the opposite aspect of the wall the place it’s positioned now. And that loo seems like this for now…type of. That is the latest image I’ve, which I took once I was planning on doing just a little makeover in right here with new tile, new bathe curtain, and new wallpaper. That makeover by no means absolutely materialized, and in hindsight, I’m so grateful that I didn’t waste money and time on that makeover. I can maintain on to all the pieces I deliberate to make use of in right here (and retailer the quartz countertop) to make use of sooner or later visitor rest room once we construct the addition.
And this room will simply be a storage room the place I can preserve Matt’s tools, different home goods that I have to retailer (i.e., vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, and so on.). I’ll even have the scuttle gap to the crawl area beneath the home put in right here. After which, it is going to be the brand new house of the new water heater.
I’ve already spoken to my contractor about my plans for this room. I advised him that I might do the entire tear out, after which I would like them to terminate the entire plumbing, do the drywall, lower the scuttle gap to the crawl area, after which set up the brand new scorching water heater.
I had been planning on a tankless water heater, however as a result of these are all inside partitions (though the one again wall will quickly be an exterior wall till the addition is constructed), that implies that my solely possibility is an electrical scorching water heater. I didn’t suppose a lot of it. I’ve heard nice issues about electrical tankless scorching water heaters. However the one downside is that electrical scorching water heaters require some fairly heavy wiring and many area within the breaker field. And we’re working out of area in our breaker field. He appeared to suppose we may make it work, however in relation to electrical stuff, the entire “we are able to most likely make it work” factor doesn’t depart me feeling very assured.
So now, I’m having second ideas about attempting to make a tankless scorching water heater work. I actually don’t have an issue with a normal tank scorching water heater. Our present one is fuel, and because the line fuel line is already proper there, it appears to me that it will be cheaper and a lot simpler to simply transfer it to the opposite aspect of the wall and be completed with it. However I’d like to know your ideas, particularly from these of you who’ve had each a normal tank scorching water heater and an electrical tankless scorching water heater. Is the electrical tankless actually that a lot of an improve? Is it value probably having to improve our electrical panel?
The one different possibility is that I may plan on an exterior tankless fuel scorching water heater. However I’ve given this a lot thought, and I can’t work out the place it will even go. I might must be a location that’s type of central to the entire plumbing in the home. And, sadly, it might probably’t go on the again anyplace as a result of there will probably be that interim between tearing down the sunroom and constructing the addition. Clearly, we are able to’t stay with out scorching water for an unspecified period of time between once we tear down the sunroom and construct the addition. In order that would go away the aspect of the home with the master suite and toilet, which is the place the outside condenser unit for our HVAC is positioned. It’s additionally the place our exterior electrical panel is positioned, in order that may be a difficulty.
The one different location I can consider could be within the space by the breakfast room home windows, however I don’t love the concept of it being positioned anyplace on the entrance of our home, even whether it is in that space that’s set again from the entrance porch and the entrance of my studio.
It looks like it will be a lot simpler and fewer tense to simply put it within the hallway storage closet and be completed with it. However that location makes me lean in the direction of having a normal fuel scorching water heater. Ugh. I simply don’t know, and that is a kind of selections I want another person would make for me. 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
