Moving Hot Water Heater From Attic To Garage

A water heater in the attic saves square footage tank type water heaters are big hulking cylinders filled with anywhere from forty to seventy gallons of hot water.

Moving hot water heater from attic to garage.

You want to do whatever you can to avoid heat loss even in nc. The hot water breakers inside the unit need to be accessible and you need a drain pan and drain. What actually goes in to moving a water heater. You can use an appliance dolly with a ratchet strap but first place.

We had to go the extra mile for the county inspectors on this little job. From an efficiency standpoint the garage would be a better location than an unconditioned attic. Garage air getting into the home can lead. The previous location probably has the correct trunkline hot water plumbing.

If you seal that off and make a new input in your garage you ll be supplying hot water to your whole house through a former branch line which is narrow. It s obviously idiotic to put a water heater in the attic. The inspectors will approve it thus proving they re unqualified to inspect it at all. Hot water pressure may decrease and the time it takes to get hot water to distance fixtures will rise quite a lot.

An attached garage as shown at left. I ve written about how bad it is to put your heating and cooling system in an unconditioned attic especially in a cooling climate. Let s put the 40 gallon hot water tank overhead. It s not as easy as just picking it up moving it and reconnecting it.

Water heater i would say probably about 1000 1500 typically for this type of move depends a lot on how close existing cold and hot water lines and gas lines are to the garage because you can commonly tap in nearly anywhere on those lines don t necessarily have to come back to the closet with new lines from the heater to tap into the. Giant tanks of water happen to take up a lot of square footage and primarily for that reason many builders have opted to place water heaters in the attic of new homes. There s one place though that s even worse. Finally once the location is chosen it s all about moving the water heater this is the part that most people don t really think about.

If the builder has already installed your water heater in the attic you can get it moved to another location in the house or into the garage. Another option is to choose a tankless water heaterto be installed in your attic. This is far less expensive than your water heater leaking and causing thousands of dollars worth of water damage. Moving the water heater is an opportunity to either mess up on insulation longer lines poorly insulated with no check valve or to super insulate.

What could go wrong. When moving a water heater it is imperative that you are gentle with it and that you move it in a horizontal position.