I do know this isn’t a enjoyable subject, and I’m as anxious as y’all are to get to the beautiful stuff in our bed room suite, however I’d love your enter on this. As you realize, for those who’ve been following this undertaking, my plan is to show our present visitor rest room right into a storage closet ahead of later. And the half rest room in my studio will develop into our fundamental visitor rest room.
Once we purchased the home, the sunroom was simply an enormous, open, and sort of awkward room. I initially thought I might salvage it, however I quickly realized that that wasn’t an possibility as a result of it doesn’t have an acceptable ground. The ground in right here is simply layers of plastic, particle board, extra plastic, and business 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.
But it surely was, not less than, an excellent short-term location for washer and dryer hookups, which the home didn’t initially have. And it was an excellent short-term location for a sizzling water heater for the reason that unique location was on the far finish of the storage, as far eliminated because it might have been from all the precise sources of water inside the home. Since all the plumbing needed to be redone anyway to eliminate the outdated galvanized metal pipes that have been so corroded that they’d solely let a trickle of water by, we went forward and had the new water heater moved to a way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 may see the place the unique window was within the hallway rest room above the washer and dryer.
Little did I do know that that “short-term” resolution for each of these would final for 12 years. However now, my washer and dryer lastly have a brand new (and far prettier) residence in my walk-in closet.
And after 12 years of dreaming concerning the day that I can tear down the room that’s (virtually jokingly) known as “the sunroom”, our present sizzling water heater is the final remaining mounted factor that’s stopping us from with the ability to tear down that room.
Don’t get me fallacious. The room is crammed to the brim with stuff. But it surely’s virtually all stuff that I can both eliminate as a result of I received’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 mounted factor within the room that stops 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 appears to be like like this for now…sort of. That is the newest image I’ve, which I took after I was planning on doing a little bit makeover in right here with new tile, new bathe curtain, and new wallpaper. That makeover by no means totally materialized, and in hindsight, I’m so grateful that I didn’t waste money and time on that makeover. I can maintain on to every thing I deliberate to make use of in right here (and retailer the quartz countertop) to make use of sooner or later visitor rest room after we construct the addition.
And this room will simply be a storage room the place I can hold Matt’s tools, different home goods that I have to retailer (i.e., vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, and many others.). 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 residence of the new water heater.
I’ve already spoken to my contractor about my plans for this room. I instructed him that I might do all the tear out, after which I want them to terminate all the plumbing, do the drywall, reduce the scuttle gap to the crawl area, after which set up the brand new sizzling 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 briefly be an exterior wall till the addition is constructed), that implies that my solely possibility is an electrical sizzling water heater. I didn’t assume a lot of it. I’ve heard nice issues about electrical tankless sizzling water heaters. However the one drawback is that electrical sizzling water heaters require some fairly heavy wiring and plenty of area within the breaker field. And we’re working out of area in our breaker field. He appeared to assume we might make it work, however relating to electrical stuff, the entire “we are able to most likely make it work” factor doesn’t go away me feeling very assured.
So now, I’m having second ideas about making an attempt to make a tankless sizzling water heater work. I actually don’t have an issue with a typical tank sizzling water heater. Our present one is gasoline, and for the reason that line gasoline line is already proper there, it appears to me that it will be cheaper and a lot simpler to only transfer it to the opposite aspect of the wall and be accomplished with it. However I’d like to know your ideas, particularly from these of you who’ve had each a typical tank sizzling water heater and an electrical tankless sizzling water heater. Is the electrical tankless actually that a lot of an improve? Is it value presumably having to improve our electrical panel?
The one different possibility is that I might plan on an exterior tankless gasoline sizzling water heater. However I’ve given this a lot thought, and I can’t work out the place it will even go. I might should be a location that’s sort of central to all the plumbing in the home. And, sadly, it may’t go on the again wherever 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 reside with out sizzling water for an unspecified period of time between after 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 loo, 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 could be a difficulty.
The one different location I can consider can be within the space by the breakfast room home windows, however I don’t love the thought of it being positioned wherever 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 as if it will be a lot simpler and fewer anxious to only put it within the hallway storage closet and be accomplished with it. However that location makes me lean in direction of having a typical gasoline sizzling 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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