Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:40:55 -0500, Nate Nagel wrote:

that gap is normal, and you say "vertical" making me think that you
could just cut some off and still be OK, yes?


Hi Nate,
Thanks for asking. I appreciate the help.
Since the hot water heater is in a garage, there is a foot and a half
"bench" it's sitting on, then the 50 inches of hot water heater, then at
least a few feet of vertical pipe to get near the cieling which is way up
there.

So, I would guess they can cut off 8 or 9 inches and the vertical
three-inch wide pipe would still be a few feet vertically.

that's fine, no worries there then.


I'm a bit more worried about the hot-water pipes as the S-shaped coiled
pipes are only about a foot long but if we take 9 inches out of that, it
leaves them only being about 3 inches long which doesn't seem like enough
for an "S" dont'cha think?

Donna

I wouldn't worry about that at all. you can just take it out of the
copper hard lines if you have to. (I'm assuming that you're referring
to corrugated flexible copper connectors above.)

nate

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