I do know this isn’t a enjoyable matter, 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 , for those who’ve been following this venture, my plan is to show our present visitor rest room right into a storage closet prior to later. And the half rest room in my studio will grow to be our most important visitor rest room.
After we purchased the home, the sunroom was simply an enormous, open, and type 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 applicable 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 once a patio. So with the room not having a very good basis, there was no want in spending cash to restore something above that basis.
Nevertheless it was, a minimum of, a very good short-term location for washer and dryer hookups, which the home didn’t initially have. And it was a very good short-term location for a scorching 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 the entire precise sources of water inside the home. Since the entire plumbing needed to be redone anyway to do away with the outdated galvanized metal pipes that have been so corroded that they might solely let a trickle of water via, we went forward and had the recent water heater moved to a way more centralized location, and the one location accessible 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 “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) dwelling in my walk-in closet.
And after 12 years of dreaming in regards to 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 factor that’s stopping us from having the ability to tear down that room.
Don’t get me incorrect. The room is crammed to the brim with stuff. Nevertheless it’s nearly all stuff that I can both do away with 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 finally be relocated to my workshop as soon as I get it organized.
And that simply leaves the recent water heater as the ultimate fastened factor within the room that forestalls me from taking a bulldozer to this room.
As I stated, the brand new location for the recent water heater shall 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 like this for now…type of. That is the latest image I’ve, which I took after I was planning on doing a 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 little 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 items that I must retailer (i.e., vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, and so on.). I’ll even have the scuttle gap to the crawl house beneath the home put in right here. After which, it will likely be the brand new dwelling of the recent water heater.
I’ve already spoken to my contractor about my plans for this room. I informed him that I might do the entire tear out, after which I want them to terminate the entire plumbing, do the drywall, lower the scuttle gap to the crawl house, 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 briefly 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 plenty of house within the breaker field. And we’re working out of house in our breaker field. He appeared to suppose we might make it work, however in terms of electrical stuff, the entire “we will most likely make it work” factor doesn’t go away 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 an ordinary tank scorching water heater. Our present one is fuel, and for the reason that line fuel line is already proper there, it appears to me that it could 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 an ordinary tank scorching water heater and an electrical tankless scorching water heater. Is the electrical tankless actually that a lot of an improve? Is it price presumably having to improve our electrical panel?
The one different possibility is that I might 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 could even go. I might must be a location that’s type of central to the entire plumbing in the home. And, sadly, it could possibly’t go on the again anyplace as a result of there shall be that interim between tearing down the sunroom and constructing the addition. Clearly, we will’t reside with out scorching 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 main bedroom 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 is perhaps a problem.
The one different location I can consider can 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 could 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 an ordinary fuel scorching water heater. Ugh. I simply don’t know, and that is a type of choices I want another person would make for me. 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
