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Our MBR is over the garage. You’d never know except for the garage door opening, like @stickguy mentioned.
Can’t go wrong building new, congrats. We originally wanted to do that, but when we found our current home we knew it was the “one”.
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He didn’t say he was buying a car.
jmonroe
Re: rooms over the garage, you guys live in the south!
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Exactly!
Plenty of homes in NJ have rooms over the garage. I honestly don’t know how they do it. Must be very well insulated. Our master closet is over the garage and that thing gets COLD!
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
I actually want a place with a nice open great room, 1st floor master and office, then 2 BRs and a loft/bonus room upstairs that we can pretty much close off. Not easy to find resale either.
we were leaning new builds but just weren't comfortable putting a bunch down on a build we would not get until next summer, at an inflated price, with no clue what our house would be worth at that point when we went to sell. So, probably buying used (or finding a rental when we are reading and then ordering a build)
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We have a family room over the garage. Very few actual basements in the PNW, our home is no exception. We just have crawl space.
@jmonroe1 Thx. But, I don't do the sack lunch buying strategy anymore. I've discovered a cookout using a portable Kingsford grill is much more effective.
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Good idea. Make a couple wieners for the salesman and he’ll dart into the sales managers office and really go to bat for you.
jmonroe
Do ya feel lucky, punk?
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Is that the supercharging dock for Tesla’s new electric boat?
Is that the supercharging dock for Tesla’s new electric boat?
Lol. I suppose they could detach the bed from the Cyber Truck and add a motor to it…
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2 of our bathrooms are near (just above) the hot water heater which is in the basement.
All of a sudden, it seems you have to leave the hot water for the sink on for a very long time to get hot water to the sink.
The hot water going to the shower in both bathrooms doesn't seem to take any longer...possibly a little but not much.
What do you check? Is it that the taps have broken down where the water gets divided....both bathrooms have 3 holes (faucet and 2 handles - hot and cold).
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Try running the hot water for the tub slowly until it's hot. Then go to the faucet for
that bathroom and see how long it takes for the hot water to move from the larger
supply for the tub/shower to the lavatory faucet.
If the bathrooms are back-to-back they may be plumbed differently than I'm picturing.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
It is a Rheem and it is 8 years old.
I am curious about running the shower with hot water, and seeing if the sink gets instant hot water....I'll test that this afternoon.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
What does it all mean?
When water comes out of the shower a lot comes out in a short while - mainly all that cold water.
I have a feeling the water heater isn't very efficient these days too.
But I get hot water faster in the kitchen and the 3rd bathroom faster....and they are much further away from the water heater. ? ?
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You should come to my house with a really long run from an instant hot water heater. Can be well over a minute at the shower, slightly less at sink since it’s not flow restricted like the shower head
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Same with our master bathroom shower. Takes about 40 seconds or so to warm up. Walkout basement. House built in 2001. Always been like that.
Maybe as I get older, it just seems to take longer. It seems I am wasting precious time....waiting for hot water
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Water heater on one end of the house in the basement, bathroom on the other end on 2nd floor.
Don't forget the laundry connection for the washing machine. If a kitchen sink has drawn hot water, or the washing machine has pulled hot water to it, they have heated up the pipe to that area. If your bathroom is on the same circuit as the washer, then that shower/tub or lavatory will get hot water faster for an hour or so til the pipe in the wall cools depending on how much of the length of the run is shared with the appliance that just drew hot water..
Our heater has a single pipe out going to a cluster of connections. A tub with its shower and a shower in the adjacent master bath are connected to that main pipe there; they are back-to-back.
Another pipe must supply the washing machine and a lavatory in Master Bath at the end of a 15-foot run through a wall. The lavatory in the other bath with the tub/shower gets its supply from the tub/shower pipe.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Same with us. The water heater couldn’t be any further from our master bath than it is. Then add in 15-20 second startup time for the Instant hot.
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Waiting? Good opportunity to get some of those pesky chores out of the way. Here's what I do. Turn on hot shower water. Shave (electric). By the time I'm done, water nice and hot.
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They have their pros and cons. Fast hot water to the faucets is certainly a con.
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I know 2 plumbers who won’t install the tankless water heaters anymore because of complaints from most of their customers that got them.
I wonder what our plumbing company poster buddy has to say about them.
jmonroe
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2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The G90 is black. Its styling is just pleasant to look at. it has nothing about screaming "Look at me."
It's just pleasing to the eye in its balance and design.
But the G90 has the longest rear door I've noticed in a long time. That rear seat must really have room. That means the front can be adjusted to handle someone who needs more legroom.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Honestly the biggest issue is you need a dishwasher that heats the water because the new ones fill so slowly it doesn’t turn the heater on.
Washing machine can be an issue too. We don’t wash with warm or hot ever so no big deal.
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It’s not the length of the door that matters.
jmonroe
I know 2 plumbers who won’t install the tankless water heaters anymore because of complaints from most of their customers that got them.
I wonder what our plumbing company poster buddy has to say about them.
jmonroe
Honestly the biggest issue is you need a dishwasher that heats the water because the new ones fill so slowly it doesn’t turn the heater on.
Washing machine can be an issue too. We don’t wash with warm or hot ever so no big deal.
Can’t you solve that problem by running the hot water at the kitchen sink first. In fact, most dishwasher instructions say to do this as a matter of course anyway. Mrs. j has done that since she had her first dishwasher back in the early 70’s.
Notice how we always get back to dishwashers.
jmonroe
@imidazol97 Thanks for suggesting tracking the hot water lines...I am going to do that the first chance I get.
Well, I am glad I am not the only one who finds it takes a long time to get hot water to the tap. You'd think if they can get a man to the moon, then......................................
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Yes we do that all the time, which helps but eventually the tankless shuts off because the new “HE” appliances fill very slowly.
My personal favorite thing that happens with the tankless is the “cold water sandwich”. Say your wife takes a shower, and then 10 minutes or so later you decide to take one. You turn the water on and it’s warm right away. So you jump in and once the warm water in the pipe flushes out you get 15 seconds of cold while the unit is firing up. That is fun in the winter.
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