{"id":6,"date":"2016-04-12T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-21T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T01:47:35","slug":"bought-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/2016\/04\/12\/bought-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought the house!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closed on April 4, 2016, I am a first time home owner! A lot still needs done, but have also undertaken and gotten a lot done in only a week! Thanks go out to both my Mom and Dad to all the hard work with getting stuff done!<\/p>\n<p>Things done so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ripped out old carpeting, revealing rather nice wood floor<\/li>\n<li>Hung up blinds in all windows<\/li>\n<li>Rewired Shed and Garage so that it is now safe&nbsp;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Added Garage Subpanel<\/li>\n<li>Garage had two 12 gauge UF feeds, one was powered the other was for a switch loop<\/li>\n<li>Removed unused switch loop and wired for 2 phase<\/li>\n<li>Installed outlets for new lights in garage and outlets for the garage door and one for a future garage door<\/li>\n<li>Put shed on breaker in garage subpanel<\/li>\n<li>Some of the windows in the garage need fixed, but they all can now be opened (some needing propped as they are double hung)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Removed Living Room subpanel hookup which was tied to the main service feed, NOT on a breaker<\/li>\n<li>Put both Kitchen and Living Room subpanels on a 2 pole 60 amp breaker setup<\/li>\n<li>Rewired hot water heater to 220, was on 120&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Moved around some of the wiring, no need for the whole house fan to be hooked up right now when there are more important things to be wired in<\/li>\n<li>Brought main breaker panel up to a safer standard<\/li>\n<li>Mapped out entire main breaker panel, half of kitchen panel<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>No idea what two of the four breakers go to in the kitchen panel, nothing seems to not work with having them completely disconnected&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Landscaped out front, making it look like home and not just some house<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned some junk out of the shed<\/li>\n<li>Put in all new door locks and dead bolts on exterior doors, all keyed to one key<\/li>\n<li>Ordered new kitchen and bathroom faucets. Some things I can live with, but low faucets (aka the Kitchen) and low and close to the back of the sink (aka the Bathroom) I cannot. One thing I found is that Amazon is SO much cheaper than the big box stores when it comes to faucets, I got both of the ones I wanted for way less than just the one would have cost.<\/li>\n<li>Probably more that I am forgetting&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One improvement that I want to make sooner than later is upgrading the 27 gallon hot water heater. It is way too small, can&#8217;t even take a bath with it! Tankless seems to be cheaper in both upfront and over that long run costs. I should have everything required to swap over minus what is listed below. So for under 300, I should be able to install and have a tankless (read: Unlimited) supply of hot water<\/p>\n<p>Tankless hot water heater setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rheem-RTE-13-Electric-Tankless\/dp\/B003UHUSGQ\/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_i\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rheem-RTE-13-Electric-Tankless\/dp\/B003UHUSGQ\/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_i<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/Rheem-EcoSense-RETE-13-13kW-1-97-GPM-Tankless-Electric-Water-Heater-RETE-13\/202514583\">http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/Rheem-EcoSense-RETE-13-13kW-1-97-GPM-Tankless-Electric-Water-Heater-RETE-13\/202514583<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Tankless hotwater Service Kit DIY:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>2x <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoro.com\/webstone-brass-wdrain-3-way-ipsxhose-12-in-40612\/i\/G5273931\/?whence=\">https:\/\/www.zoro.com\/webstone-brass-wdrain-3-way-ipsxhose-12-in-40612\/i\/G5273931\/?whence=<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4x <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/1-2-in-Copper-C-x-MPT-Adapter-C604HD12\/204620255\">http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/1-2-in-Copper-C-x-MPT-Adapter-C604HD12\/204620255<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; Price for a service kit comes to around 60 dollars, the DIY setup is about 37. Not only that, but this &nbsp; &nbsp; is setup for 1\/2 instead of the store bought ones that I can only seem to find in 3\/4, which adds on &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cost to reduce to 1\/2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closed on April 4, 2016, I am a first time home owner! A lot still needs done, but have also undertaken and gotten a lot done in only a week! Thanks go out to both my Mom and Dad to all the hard work with getting stuff done! Things done so far: Ripped out old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksmustangranch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}