yeah good evening YouTube so I'm making some progress on finishing up some of the odds and
ends with the tankless water heater install so I finally got my three inch PVC elbow musin 3 inch
PVC pipe for both the exhaust vent and this is for the intake vent and originally I was thinking I
might go up through the roof of the garage that just seems like a lot of extra work and I don't
think it really buys me anything and so what I did was I just cut a butt 18 18 and a half inch
length of 3-inch pipe put the elbow on the end and then this is the supplied screen that comes with
the water heater they call it a bird screen but it's set up to fit inside of a 3 inch PVC fitting
of some sort either a coupling or in this case an elbow so I'm going to shove this into the intake
vent and then have this elbow basically right up under the ceiling of the garage so that way it'll
be kind of up and in the cleanest air possible so any dust that's down it ground level won't
get sucked in and had a really hard time getting these 3 inch PVC fittings I got this from Home
Depot but I had to actually order it online they don't stock that in any of the local stores and
in fact the 3 inch PVC pipe I had to get at Lowe's Home Depot doesn't even stock this material Lowe's
has material but they don't have the fittings they have up to 2 inch PVC you can get all the 2 inch
PVC you want but above 2 inch it's very hard to find there's lots of three and four inch abs which
is your drain waist and vent pipe but the PVC is mainly for water and I guess there's not much call
for 3 inch and larger water pipe but yeah that's here your heavy heavy wall PVC pipe there anything
is I got I think Home Depot had these for like Oh three dollars and a quarter with Free Shipping
and it came in a box all by itself so they must have spent at least three dollars on shipping I
mean you can't ship a UPS box across the country for less than three dollars I mean that's that's
crazy you have to order it and they must be losing money but I guess they figure it's better to have
it online rather than stock this rarely purchase stuff so that's one thing to consider if you're
using 3 inch PVC venting for a tankless water heater install finding these fittings can be
a little bit tricky I had to order the the twenty two and a half degree elbows that I used online as
well and you really need to shop around because you can you can find these if you want to pay
ten twelve dollars an elbow but if you want to get them for a reasonable price you're going to
have to wait so anyway that is my intake and I'll show you what that looks like okay and there and
have the intake vent up there so I come up right short of the garage ceiling figure that's got to
be the least dusty air and that way kind of keep it keep it there so I can check you know make sure
spiders don't build a big spiderweb over there I can get up there and access it fairly easily if
I have to every couple of years take this down and get out the air compressor and blow it out
and then one thing I also did I don't know if it will vibrate or not under use but what I did
up there is I put a piece of weather stripping foam on the PVC because it gets pretty close to
that roof rafter there if it does vibrate it won't make any noise and if it vibrates bad I
don't think it will but if it does I can always get a strap and strap the elbow to that rafter
but I'll leave it like that for now and then let's take a look here at the condensate drain