But in southern california basements are extremely rare so most homes have floor furnaces a k a.
Cost of moving water heater from attic to garage.
Is your electric panel in the garage.
An outgoing hot water line that serves as a trunk feeding the rest of the house with branch lines going to the fixtures.
Services all things plumbing water heaters.
Why you need to get your water heater out of your attic.
It s not as easy as just picking it up moving it and reconnecting it.
Especially during the winter.
I would need obviously to include the cost of moving all associated plumbing.
Tips on moving a hot water heater into another room.
What actually goes in to moving a water heater.
I m assuming the new water heater is also electric.
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.
You will need to.
The new location is flush with the garage floor and in an alcove to protect from winter cold.
Yes the kind of water heater very much matters.
30 wide clear space in front of the breaker box is the correct minimum dimension.
My heater sits on slab concrete approximately 3 feet off the floor of the garage currently.
It will take a long time to get hot water to any fixture in your house if the run is that long.
Few hundred to a plumber to run cold to water heater and hot back to the house.
Water heaters need to be 18 off the garage floor if they use gas.
Moving a furnace to the attic.
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 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.
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.
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.
That is probably what you saw in some new construction.
Charlotte water heater advice.
Few hundred to an electrician to run a new move circuit.
Some things to consider the usual place you ll find furnaces in homes across the u s.