Guys, that was just for a test of the water system. The water system is a tank above the house (further up a hill) and it gravity
feeds down to the house. We have to haul our own water from town, and the tank is 1200 plus gallons. My water hauling trailer
is 600 gallons, so when the main tank gets about half empty its time for another trip into town. Everyone around here hauls water
and the town is set up for it. Not to many of us can afford to spend 25k or more to drill a well and it would be around 1100 feet
deep to get to the aquafier. I'm just happy that the PEX held and by the way I tested it at 40-50 lbs as that little shallow well pump
can put out the pressure at times. It's a 1" pump, and can supply the whole house at anthing up to 50lbs, although I have it set to
30lbs for regular home pressure. You guys living in the city are spoiled...LOL. It will be set up with all the goodies for the plumbing
and right now I am debating on wether to use a Bosch instant hot water heater w/ 1/2" line or one that I looked at yesterday, that
is half the size at 1/2" and does the same thing with propane (yes I use propane). The Bosch is excellent, although it runs on natural
gas. There is no conversion kit to propane for it, so I would have to hook it up for propane and use it like that. Propane burns hotter
and the only difference is that you have to adjust the flame or the air to the propane so you would get the flame burning right.
The correct way is adjust the air so you have a blue flame not a yellow flame. I believe propane takes a smaller oriface than natural
gas does (its all in the oriface size
). The small one I was looking at, is killer! works like the big brother and supplies all the hot
you can use.
