Cost Of Moving Water Heater From Attic To Garage

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Cost of moving water heater from attic to garage. An outgoing hot water line that serves as a trunk feeding the rest of the house with branch lines going to the fixtures. What actually goes in to moving a water heater. But in southern california basements are extremely rare so most homes have floor furnaces a k a. Is your electric panel in the garage.

The new location is flush with the garage floor and in an alcove to protect from winter cold. Posted on october 5 2012 by e r. Moving a furnace to the attic. I would need obviously to include the cost of moving all associated plumbing.

Tips on moving a hot water heater into another room. So many homes in charlotte are built on slab which can make it more difficult to run plumbing lines through the first floor of your house. Water heater i would say probably about 1000 1500 typically for this type of move depends a lot on how close existing cold and hot water lines and gas lines are to the garage because you can commonly tap in nearly anywhere on those lines don t necessarily have to come back to the closet with new lines from the heater to tap into the existing connections. 30 wide clear space in front of the breaker box is the correct minimum dimension.

Yes the kind of water heater very much matters. I want to move my water heater from it s current location in an alcove in my garage to a new alcove approximately 3 feet away. Water heaters need to be 18 off the garage floor if they use gas. My heater sits on slab concrete approximately 3 feet off the floor of the garage currently.

Moving a water heater to a new location in a home is a difficult task and requires significant planning and preparation. You will need to. Some things to consider the usual place you ll find furnaces in homes across the u s. Why you need to get your water heater out of your attic.

An incoming cold water line which will be harder but if worse comes to worst you can run a pex line from the incoming cold water line on the second floor to the new location in the garage. It will take a long time to get hot water to any fixture in your house if the run is that long. I would think a lot less than 2k. Especially during the winter.

Few hundred to a plumber to run cold to water heater and hot back to the house. Finally once the location is chosen it s all about moving the water heater this is the part that most people don t really think about. I m assuming the new water heater is also electric. Few hundred to an electrician to run a new move circuit.