Hot water heater questions

[Winston]

Racer X wrote:
Why houses were built to hide stuff like furnaces, water shut offs and water heaters, instead of making access easy, is completely beyond me.

We had a door on the small room where our water heater is located. Discovered that they must have put the door (and its framing) in after the water heater was installed. The opening was too small to get the old water heater out. Too bad, as it had a nice louvered door. What replaced it was about the cheapest thing we could do. (It's in a partially finished basement room.)

We also have a water shut off that was sheetrocked over with no access.


Good luck.

- Winston