This Old House plumbing and heating contractor Richard Trethewey is in hot water—again. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Install a Heat Pump Water Heater:
– electric heat-pump water heater
– copper pipe and assorted fittings and valves, used to connect new water heater
– solder, flux and emery cloth, for sweating copper pipe
– plastic tubing, used to drain condensation from the heater
– tubing staples, for securing the plastic tubing to the wall
– ball valves, used to replace old shut-off valves
Tools for How to Install a Heat Pump Water Heater:
– tubing cutter, used to cut copper tubing
– pliers and wrenches, used to tighten and loosen threaded fittings
– propane torch, used to solder pipe joints
– hammer, for tapping in tubing staples
– utility knife, used to cut plastic tubing
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Another great thing.
So all it's doing is sucking the heat out of the house that you produce in winter... cooling your house down and raising your heating bill.
How tall is he??
the simpler the system, the less hemorrhoids!
Garbage!
Natural gas > propane >>>>>>>>>>> electric
These are great, on paper. I recently did my homework on these hybrids and they have a lot more cons than pros and the savings $ are minimal
Where we live it's against the code to have a shutoff on the cold and the hot water side of a hot water tank
That dude is a giant!
This guy sounds like he wants to kill them already
Electric heating elements get caked with calcium and don't work very well. With the new heat pump a heating coil does the job of the heating element. Ummm... what stops the heating coil from getting caked with calcium too?