Peanut's Dream Build - Jumbo Edition
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This is going to be awesome. I’m already exhausted reading of you’ve done and what you have left to do !
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lol thank you...I've been planning for 6 months
This is coming along great! Following!
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Best of luck with the plumbing!A giant stand has arrived. Time to start plumbing into the closet.
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I made some holes in the wall between the tank and the closet. Finished them off with some nice printed “tunnels”. Extended the tunnels to the tank. Now it’s time to run some pipes through
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Behold….the tank!
I can’t believe there are people that have this drop shipped and left in their driveway. Would have taken me forever to move the tank, build the stand, put the tank on the stand, etc, and would include serious back issues.
I can’t believe there are people that have this drop shipped and left in their driveway. Would have taken me forever to move the tank, build the stand, put the tank on the stand, etc, and would include serious back issues.
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Plumbing is coming along. I have both stock drain lines attached and am now working on the 2 custom return lines. I have the UV plumbed into the first line. Once everything was in place I wanted needed a clip to support some of the weight of the pipe. I modified my existing clip,printed a few, and now have one in place. Looks great
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tyvm!!
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I told this story to a friend, and it's just so outrageous I thought I would share it here too....
This is regarding the move of the hot water heater from the closet, to the garage. I got 2 quotes from plumbers. Job seems very simple enough, I decide to go with the cheaper one. Before I can have the plumber come out, I have to have the electricity moved out to the garage so that the plumber can fire up the water heater once moved.
The Electrician comes out and starts working. The electrical panel is very close to the garage, but a hole has to be drilled high up in the garage wall to pass conduit/wires through etc coming from the ceiling above the panel. He drills the hole from the garage side and hits a plumbing line inside the house. Water is now pouring out of the ceiling full blast. I shut the water off to the whole house from the meter. Electrician says he will call his plumber and get this fixed. ( his plumber should have been my 3rd quote I got, but he never showed up to give me an estimate). Electrician cleans up the flood. Plumber shows up, fixes the Electricians hole in the pipe, all is well again. I say to the plumber "while you're here, how much to move the water heater". He looks it over and gives my the lowest quote I have. You're Hired!
A few days go by and the plumber and his helper return to do the job. The place where they have to attach the water heater to is giving them some trouble getting access for the tools they need, it's on the wall up by the ceiling with the supports for the garage door overhead. One of the parts has an issue, but after a long day it looks like they are done. We are at the point where we are literally discussing how I can pay him, and he notices a drip on the wall.
The helper spends 30-45 minutes on a ladder trying to re-crimp the same part that was having the issue previously, still a tiny drip. The plumber says he wants to give it a shot, and climbs up the ladder. As he does so, he bangs his bald head into the corner of the garage door track, slicing his head open. He now has blood (and sweat) pouring down the front and back of his head and face like crazy. I grab a roll of paper towels and hand him a wad to compress on his head. I don't remember how or why it came up, but jokingly to lighten the mood I said I had duct tape he could use to keep the paper towel on his head. At this point the paper towel is completely red. We redo with another wad and he's holding it while the helper continues to try and work on things. A few minutes goes by, and the plumber says to me "do you have that duct tape?" ... I say "Seriously" lol. yep....so I go and find the duct tape. But....I don't just have duct tape, I have Gorilla Glue brand duct tape. I hand it to him and say "dude...It's Gorilla Glue duct tape, I am not sure you should do that".
To be honest, I really didn't think it would stick to his sweaty, bloody, bald head, but it did. So now I have a plumber in my garage with a wad of paper towels and a gorilla glue duct tape strap directly across the top of his head. It's around 7pm at this point. The plumber and helper discuss, and decide they will need to come back tomorrow and redo it. OK. I put a bucket under the drip and they leave.
Next day, the plumber shows up, and he still has the wad of paper towel and gorilla glue duct tape strap on his head....he says to me "I'm afraid to take it off, I'm going to let it come off naturally" (This sounds so outrageous as I am telling it, but I swear I can't make this up). Anyway, they redo it, everything is great, the water heater works.
I pay him and as he is leaving I say "I hope I don't have to call you again" and he starts to say "yeah if you have any issues with it..." and I cut him off and say "no...I mean, ever". He laughed and said "yeah...no hard feelings".
This is regarding the move of the hot water heater from the closet, to the garage. I got 2 quotes from plumbers. Job seems very simple enough, I decide to go with the cheaper one. Before I can have the plumber come out, I have to have the electricity moved out to the garage so that the plumber can fire up the water heater once moved.
The Electrician comes out and starts working. The electrical panel is very close to the garage, but a hole has to be drilled high up in the garage wall to pass conduit/wires through etc coming from the ceiling above the panel. He drills the hole from the garage side and hits a plumbing line inside the house. Water is now pouring out of the ceiling full blast. I shut the water off to the whole house from the meter. Electrician says he will call his plumber and get this fixed. ( his plumber should have been my 3rd quote I got, but he never showed up to give me an estimate). Electrician cleans up the flood. Plumber shows up, fixes the Electricians hole in the pipe, all is well again. I say to the plumber "while you're here, how much to move the water heater". He looks it over and gives my the lowest quote I have. You're Hired!
A few days go by and the plumber and his helper return to do the job. The place where they have to attach the water heater to is giving them some trouble getting access for the tools they need, it's on the wall up by the ceiling with the supports for the garage door overhead. One of the parts has an issue, but after a long day it looks like they are done. We are at the point where we are literally discussing how I can pay him, and he notices a drip on the wall.
The helper spends 30-45 minutes on a ladder trying to re-crimp the same part that was having the issue previously, still a tiny drip. The plumber says he wants to give it a shot, and climbs up the ladder. As he does so, he bangs his bald head into the corner of the garage door track, slicing his head open. He now has blood (and sweat) pouring down the front and back of his head and face like crazy. I grab a roll of paper towels and hand him a wad to compress on his head. I don't remember how or why it came up, but jokingly to lighten the mood I said I had duct tape he could use to keep the paper towel on his head. At this point the paper towel is completely red. We redo with another wad and he's holding it while the helper continues to try and work on things. A few minutes goes by, and the plumber says to me "do you have that duct tape?" ... I say "Seriously" lol. yep....so I go and find the duct tape. But....I don't just have duct tape, I have Gorilla Glue brand duct tape. I hand it to him and say "dude...It's Gorilla Glue duct tape, I am not sure you should do that".
To be honest, I really didn't think it would stick to his sweaty, bloody, bald head, but it did. So now I have a plumber in my garage with a wad of paper towels and a gorilla glue duct tape strap directly across the top of his head. It's around 7pm at this point. The plumber and helper discuss, and decide they will need to come back tomorrow and redo it. OK. I put a bucket under the drip and they leave.
Next day, the plumber shows up, and he still has the wad of paper towel and gorilla glue duct tape strap on his head....he says to me "I'm afraid to take it off, I'm going to let it come off naturally" (This sounds so outrageous as I am telling it, but I swear I can't make this up). Anyway, they redo it, everything is great, the water heater works.
I pay him and as he is leaving I say "I hope I don't have to call you again" and he starts to say "yeah if you have any issues with it..." and I cut him off and say "no...I mean, ever". He laughed and said "yeah...no hard feelings".
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