Update 5.22.13

We (dad) got some more plumbing stuff done today, the water heater is vented!  the bathroom sink is installed, the gas lines are run!  The mechanical room is filling up!  I forgot to take a picture of it but my great uncle Bill gave me an oversized propane tank to use, that will save me some runs to fill up the little ones!  Pretty cool!  It’s all getting so close to getting done!

I should also share, I had an offer in on a place downtown which had a house on it ad was a great lot layout, I was haggling on the price pretty hard and ALMOST got there but that offer fell through.  I am still on the hunt for a good deal though.  The plan is to buy a piece of property that will accommodate my house and provide a rental income at the same time.  One of my favorite financial quotes is “Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it’s real estate, business, or the stock market.”  That is the motto here, I am not in a hurry to buy, I am not getting emotionally invested, I am looking for an investment opportunity.  In the meantime I will be moving my house down town to James’s property where he as a double lot, I can live downtown while I keep looking for a place of my own and he can get some rental income too, win win.  Wish me luck!

Here are some pictures:

The mechanical room, its filling up!

The yellow line and copper line are the gas lines, one to the water heater one to the oven Yeah for gas stoves!

The gas line connections under the trailer.

The bathroom sink all installed, still needs to be caulked into place but it's there and it works!

Even the cupboard

front view

And the eccotemp pieces came in, I just barely needed the extender, both of these seem WAY overpriced but I needed them... so 40 bucks for a couple feet of pipe...that I cut in half and mutilated 🙂

The angels got cut to vent correctly

and bending the the pieces to fit in in one and other

Filing down the sharp edges from cutting

Drilling the hole out to vent this on the deck. Now, Eccotemp says don't vent this unit out within 4 feet of a door or window, I don't think there is a single place I could vent this in my house if that was necessary, instead I will be installing a carbon monoxide detector, since it's not used that much I think I will be ok...

Two steps forward one step back, had to take a bit of the siding down to put in the vent.

And the vent installed, we basically had to add one more angle and about 10 inches of pipe, should be A-O-K.

From the outside, just to note, the vents that go to the outside should be angled downward at least 5 degrees so that any rain or condensation drains outside rather than inside, I would have done that wrong without careful reading and a reminder from pops!