I'm feeling much better, thank you!

[billeyler]

This morning, we returned the tankless water heater and the water softener to Home Depot with no questions asked. Done. We still have the whole house water filter that will be installed with the new water heater, whenever we get it...which has to be soon. So it's not a 100% loss.

Then we went into shopping mode, trying to find just the right mini-fridge, dishwasher etc for the downstairs. That's also a challenge, but we did end up at Sears, where in a self-gratification purchase, we bought a new BBQ to replace the failing old one. We also ordered a low-end dishwasher there, too, which we'll pick up next week. We saw the sink we wanted at Home Depot, and have pretty much decided on a fridge, too.

So after a few more shopping spots for window shopping (Kirkland's, Pier 1), we ambled home. abqdan went right into his destructo-mode in the laundry room, and I started the process of assembling the new BBQ. And here's the final product! AND it works!




Apparently all I needed to get me out of the funk was to actually finish a project I started!

Comments

[ozdachs.livejournal.com]

But why did you return the tankless water heater? Paul Harvey swears that he and Angel couldn't live theirs (and, more importantly to our future purchasing decisions, one of our friends likes his).

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

We really wanted both those things installed, but the plumber gave us a $4,500.00 price tag to install them.

[ozdachs.livejournal.com]

What? Does his kid need braces?!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

It's a scenario that we think of with this stuff, I think plumbers are right up there with dentists on the pay scale.

But in reality, a new 2" drain would have to be put in the concrete floor to replace the 1" drain currently there for the water softner (there was one there at one point, because of the way the pipes are located and plumbed, and the fact that there's even a drain). Then for the tankless water heater, a new stainless steel vent would have to be put from the downstairs up through the 2nd floor and attic up into the roof.

And of course the plumbers said the current venting for the furnace and water heater aren't to code...which we're going to ignore for now, since the 1985 systems were installed by a licensed plumbing/ac company still in business.