Moveable air handler

[Jsf721]

So the air handler that I ordered is no longer made. The new one is substIallyarger and while it fits. It will impede me from easy replacing the washer and dryer should the need arise. I purchased a hd dolly today and am trying to figure out how to easily make this unit moveable. The gas line can be quick connected and the ectrical line can be made long enough to move but the PVC tubing is going to be tricky no sure how to disconnect easily . Any ideas? Also the coant lines are usually copper. It there. Tubing i can use? this is a hi efficiency u it.

I am meeting with the installer who I have not told about this yet and am looki g for ideas or suggestions. Getting a smaller air handler is not a solution since it discontinued and I get get one but don't want a discontinued item.

It just set in place and not installed yet.

As always thanks

 

[danielzig]

I don't see the issue. Isn't the air handler going behind the water heater? Will it push the water heater closer to the door? And they do make PVC unions, or you could just cut it and install a coupling, neither of which is any problem at all.

Edit: I just saw you were talking about the 2" or 3" pvc line. Don't know if unions come that large, so you would be back to the coupling. I would just worry about it when that washer and dryer breaks down in 20 years

 

[Jsf721]

You mean a problem to make moveable? it will block the door enough to prevent the washer and dryer from passing.

Perhaps I just don't understand what I don't understand. I hope it won't be a problem.

I don't see the issue. Isn't the air handler going behind the water heater? Will it push the water heater closer to the door? And they do make PVC unions, or you could just cut it and install a coupling, neither of which is any problem at all.

 

[danielzig]

What I mean is...you are taking the picture from the doorway. The new unit will sit behind the water heater? So will the water heater be moved toward the doorway?

 

[brewchief]

I might consider raising the coil up off the furnace a bit and hanging it, a short transition under it with a canvas duct connector would make it easy to move the furnace out from under it.

Gas line can be disconnected at the union easy enough, same with power and thermostat wires. When/if it need to be moved just cut the pvc lines for the vents and either use glue and a coupler or a fernco to reconnect them.

If you can move the furnace out of the way the coil can stay in place and the washer or dryer can slide right under it.

Is it sitting where it is to be installed or does it go behind the water heater?

 

[Jsf721]

It is sitting where it is to be installed.

I might consider raising the coil up off the furnace a bit and hanging it, a short transition under it with a canvas duct connector would make it easy to move the furnace out from under it.

Gas line can be disconnected at the union easy enough, same with power and thermostat wires. When/if it need to be moved just cut the pvc lines for the vents and either use glue and a coupler or a fernco to reconnect them.

If you can move the furnace out of the way the coil can stay in place and the washer or dryer can slide right under it.

Is it sitting where it is to be installed or does it go behind the water heater?

 

[pseudorealityx]

Where is the PVC that 'cannot' be moved? Are you talking a flue or the condensate piping?

 

[Jsf721]

PVC is not in place yet. Unit is sitting in place.

My installer told me we will never pass inspection have a electrically wired gas fired appliance in wheels. Code calls for copper piping and the refergerant lines are sensitive to opening and closing since they rely on specific pressure. With all that, I just lost another closet. Now is have 10.5 of **** to fit in my 5lb bag -LOL.

Where is the PVC that 'cannot' be moved? Are you talking a flue or the condensate piping?

 

[Highbeam]

I don't see the issue. I would just worry about it when that washer and dryer breaks down in 20 years

Those front load washers are a PITA. Expect to be servicing them and removing them 4-5 times in a 20 year period.

Wash machines are the most common break down appliance. So much to go wrong.

 

[Jsf721]

I made a huge mistake. I threw out a 20 year old set of Matag washer/Dryer because we moved the laundry room to expand the kitchen and my wife wanted these pretty new units. They **** as do all front loaders. The only bebefit it less water consumption. This thing smells if you shut the door and the gasket get gross with mildew and needs more attention than tropical fish.

I would love my old machines back and the $ I blew on these. I bet my contractor still has my machines in his shop. Gave me scrap value and asked if he could take them? I said no problem! I AM A SUCKER.

Those front load washers are a PITA. Expect to be servicing them and removing them 4-5 times in a 20 year period.

Wash machines are the most common break down appliance. So much to go wrong.

 

[Highbeam]

I made a huge mistake. I threw out a 20 year old set of Matag washer/Dryer because we moved the laundry room to expand the kitchen and my wife wanted these pretty new units. They **** as do all front loaders. The only bebefit it less water consumption. This thing smells if you shut the door and the gasket get gross with mildew and needs more attention than tropical fish.

I would love my old machines back and the $ I blew on these. I bet my contractor still has my machines in his shop. Gave me scrap value and asked if he could take them? I said no problem! I AM A SUCKER.

I own a front loader set and I now leave the bottom panel off so that I can access the pump filter. It clogs from socks and other junk that make it around the face seal which is obviously easy since, unlike a vertical loader, the clothes rub against the seal. Then the machines leak water, then belts break, and then after all this the rear bearing which is supporting a catilevered drum of heavy unblalanced clothes is prone to failure rendering the whole thing trash.

They are pretty, and they do save water but more importantly they save energy when drying since the clothes are so dry after being spun so fast.

 

[dbonne]

It looks like you have natural gas, Install a tankless water heater as they take up about 90 % less space than the tank you have in there now. That might give you the room you need to install your furnace.

 

[danielzig]

Man, I am feeling really slow. Isn't that a furnace behind the water heater? If it is, wouldn't that be the one you are replacing? That is what is confusing the hell out of me.