09-11-2011, 07:19 PM
Racer X wrote:
My hot water heater is in my ground floor garage. Probably a 10 minute job to disconnect it, and I can roll it right out to the driveway. Why houses were built to hide stuff like furnaces, water shut offs and water heaters, instead of making access easy, is completely beyond me.
Not sure when hot water heaters became standard in homes (20s? 30s?)
but they couldn't foresee everything when they built this place in 1898.
All in all I'm happy with where they chose to place it. The downstairs heater is in the kitchen.
Also happy there's a second water shutoff in my kitchen-- don't need to inconvenience the downstairs. Despite a dark period of half-assedness in the 80s and 90s, most of the former owners were interested in doing things right.