Recent content by calsaxe

Thanks Hoosier! Always good to have confirmation in the form of a second opinion. I'm glad to hear that it "looks" pro because my body wasn't feeling like a pro...I was hurting for a couple of days after trying to tighten all of the gas fittings!!!

Here is the pdf file for the tankless water heater I am installing. On page 15 it has a chart for both natural gas and propane gas supply lines. The graph will show you the diameter of pipe needed to supply a certain volume of gas over a given length of run. I would definitely oversize for...

I just finished running a 125 foot run of polyethylene pipe for natural gas. I was told that I had to have a licensed contractor purchase the PE pipe, the elbow radiuses, and the couplers. When I called the sales office at Ferguson's plumbing here in Sacramento, the guy told me that I could...

I installed a Takagi tankless natural gas unit almost 4 years ago. I haven't had any problems at all. It cost over twice as much as a standard water heater, but I mounted it outside and gained all of the space back inside my house. I couldn't build that kind of finished interior space for...

Darn, too bad you're in SoCal. I'm here in Sacramento getting ready to frame up my garage (25' X 35'). But with my regular day job and 3 kids, my timeline is as uncertain as your crews!

I installed a tankless water heater just to reclaim the floor space that my water heater was taking up in my pantry. I was already on a gas water heater so I don't think I'll ever save enough to pay the difference for the tankless, but I certainly couldn't add the square footage in my house for...