Water

08/16/2008

Rain

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After the summer with virtually no moisture to speak of, the fall rains have come.  A huge storm hit on the 8th, bending over trees, hailing, and coming down at over an inch an hour.

Our little wood box made it - no water seems to be making it’s way in anywhere!

The open face downspouts make quite a racket when the water just drips, so we are going to put something at the bottom to try and silence the noise...

04/19/2008

Tankless Water Heater

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Mike has most of the plumbing completed.  Over this past weekend he roughed in the tankless water heater.  It’s a large(r) capacity Rinnai tankless (or On Demand) gas powered water heater. 

We are excited to see what kind of energy savings a unit like this can provide for us.  Per the Energy Star label this unit uses 183 therms per year.  Our current conventional water heater uses 258!