In the vein of rising to the occasion I set to designing a remodel with the least amount of exterior change. I was just operating on the fact that the house was cheap and a remodel couldn’t cost that much if I kept it simple.
It is always sort of a puzzle to look at the existing plan and to see what jumps out at you. I like to do the most minimal moves and get the most bang for your buck. In this case a shower, heating system and getting the washer out of the kitchen were the main objectives.
They had placed the water heater in this very deep closet and run pipes like drying racks through the downstairs bathroom. Both were driving me crazy. It was a hallelujah moment when it occurred to me to grab the last three feet of this useless water heater closet and enter it from the bathroom to make the most glorious shower and maintain a normal closet. It was an easy decision to put the water heater in the basement under the bathroom.
Likewise when it occurred to me that I could turn (this probably at one time) garden shed on the back porch, into a laundry with stacking washer/dryer was another hallelujah moment. All that plumbing so close together had to make sense for energy efficiency.
Living abroad in Japan and Germany had given me a whole different perspective on appliances and heating options. I got to love the German’s washing machines once I adjusted to the two-hour cycle and realized that cook cycle was almost boiling hot water. For someone who took a lot of cool showers from being down the pecking order too far, I was very keen on an on demand hot water system with unlimited hot water.
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