okay everyone so first things first as far as tools go you're gonna need a
driver so you can have it screwed onto your wall or frame you're gonna need
some good wrenches so you can work on the plumbing and of course you're gonna
need the right type of fittings and connectors which we will go through in
just a little bit so this is basically all you need as far as tools we're gonna
go over now as far as all the connections what you will need okay so
now that we've covered the tools that you're going to be needing we're gonna
go over some of the accessories and supplies you will need as well so I
strongly recommend you get a braided steel braided flexible hose for your
water lines make sure they are 1/2 inch on this side this is the site that's
connecting into the water heater and as far as length they have them in three
feet two feet whatever you need to get you from your point of entry as far as
water goes coming into your tank and then going back to the house so the
length is up to you you know how far it is from your tank to your connector but
I do recommend braided steel and of course half inch same thing goes for
your gas line and I do recommend you have this and I'll tell you a little bit
more about this on a description so you'll have a safety as far as
connecting it but this is where it will connect into your water heater this is
coming from your gas line I strongly recommend you change your flexible gas
connecting pipe since you're already doing the install so get this and the
length is according to what you need they have them 36 inches 48 but you'll
need this adapter and you'll need this because this cannot connect into your
water heater and neither can this part here okay
so you'll have to put this in here like this and we'll go over and find detail a
little bit later but this connects just like you see it there and this
coupling is what allows the connection that happened between the water heater
and your actual pipe so this side now will go into the water heater you do
need some tape I strongly recommend just use the red one for your pipes for water
and then for gas for gas you use the yellow or you can also use this right
here okay the pipe thread sealant it depends some prefer this some prefer
this whatever either either one is fine but then for your water you want to use
your red Teflon don't use the blue use the red okay so as you can see it's on
the table and I would recommend you do this because you want to try to work as
easy as you can while you can before you might have to get on your back or on
your knees and and do some simple things that we're going to do next so we're
gonna use the pipe thread sealant only on the gas line and I'll show you a
little bit about that later with as far as the connector goes and then we're
also going to use our teflon tape for our two water lines now if you notice
here there are some indicators which is which so down here says gas Inlet and
over here water output so this is the water going to your house that's already
been heated that's the reason why the lettering here is red and over over here
where says water inlet is your water coming in from your source whether it be
the city or well that's coming into your water heater tank from your source and
if you don't have those labels on there or if it's in Chinese or another
language the easy way to tell is you will see that little screen there and
the purpose of that is to trap any minerals that may get into the tank so
as long as you see that screening material there that's the way that the
water comes into the tank and this is the way it goes out of your tank into
your home as hot water so cold water coming in hot water going out and then
of course your gas Inlet and if you notice there's two batteries there there
D batteries and that's because this tank is 100% non dependent of your house
electrical or curved it just uses two D size batteries and
you want to make sure on the on the labeling that you have it the right way
so in this particular case I'm sure 90% of them are like this
your positive terminal is on the back battery and your negative terminal is on
the battery that's closest to you so I'm gonna go ahead and put the teflon tape
in there and we'll get back to the video and just shortly here okay so as you see
here we've got our teflon tape in there and over here we just simply cannot put
in your gas connection in there it's not the same it wouldn't go through okay so
what you need to do is inside the bag where this comes from you already have
this adapter the one on on the right this one here okay so this will go right
in here just like this there with me it's not easy when you're trying to hold
the camera and do this but anyway I've got on a tripod now so and then this guy
here this coupling goes here just like you saw me put it in there and
eventually goes here now I like to put this together first these two together
and then put it on here so then my gas pipe that's coming through the ground
coming up from the ground will just connect and that's it and you're done
and then same way your half-inch flex braided flex pipe will go in there as
you can see it's already in I'm not gonna put all the way through because
we're gonna mount it first but I want to go ahead and put these two together and
show you the mounting right afterwards okay so it's already put together and I
ran out of the the first thread sealant I had so this is a different bottle they
are in color the colors are different but anyway you can
that's in there real good that means it's gonna be a tight seal and then when
you put it on you want to make sure you get it all over the thread don't worry
if you put too much but you just want to squeeze that in there okay make sure you
get it all the way around now we're gonna go this way
see if we can turn this over
and just putting it on the edge is good enough it'll push it okay and then you
get this guy in there hand-tighten first
and then what you want to do is you want to hold this side here with one wrench
while you tighten over here so you don't force this you know and break it perhaps
so you want to hold it here and tighten here we're gonna do that and then go
back to the video okay so I got it in there and you can see how some of the
the sealant has already protruded through there and that's fine
as you tighten it that's gonna happen so the next thing we're gonna do is we're
gonna also put some sealant here once we get our gas line connected to it but
we're gonna go ahead and hang this guy and take it from there okay so you could
see the setup that we have here we have a board there where we're going to hang
the tankless water heater to I built that frame around it just to give it
stability the flooring had caved in before and we're gonna go ahead and hang
it there we you notice we have our our exhaust there for the fumes and we're
gonna we already have a screw right here in the middle because you just need one
just to hold it in there then you can put the other screws but we're gonna go
ahead and do that next okay so now we have it hung on that board we had back
there and just want to point out we got our we had our original screw in there
was just to hold it we put in two more screws to kind of you see how you can't
move it really well and there's still some more on the bottom that we can put
but we want to go ahead and make sure that it's secure then we can bring this
guy down a little bit so that the fumes exhaust properly so we're going to do
that as well okay so you can see we've got the exhaust right in there nicely so
that we can get the fumes out and then panning down on the bottom you can see
our connect Thurs are now ready to have our pipes
installed both the two water lines and your gas line and as we go down here you
can see that our gas line of course is shut and our main is also shut so
following this main water line okay this is the one that's gonna go down below
here where we had mentioned water in and remember there's a mesh there so we're
gonna go ahead and connect this guy I'm gonna try to do as much as we can by
hand tightening first and then later we will go ahead and and also you know what
we're gonna go ahead and put a screw there because you can see how this moves
a little bit just to give us stability before we get our pipes in there so
let's go ahead and do that all righty so we got our screw in there that'll keep
the water heater stable we also made sure it was level and then we're gonna
put our other water line this is the water line that's coming that's already
been heated by the water heater and it's coming into the house already as hot
water so this is your hot water tap on your sink faucet shower I'm trying to
get as much as I can by hand tightening and then later we will make sure we
tighten it with a wrench and we're also going to insulate these lines as well
we'll do that and then get our gas line ready as well okay so you can see we've
already got the insulation of the pipes in there and we already got the pipe
sealant for your gas line and at that point all we need to do is bring your
gas line into it and start hand tightening
don't worry about any excess coming through there don't need to go a whole
lot with your wrench so just go maybe a little quarter turn afterwards you want
to make sure you hold this one if you've never done this before you want to hold
this and then just thread this guy in there another thing I forgot to mention
earlier is when you're putting your teflon tape you always want to make sure
you go clockwise so if this is a clock in front of you want to make sure you go
this way okay so it's gonna go this way because that's the way the thread is
gonna go as far as these guys here you're gonna threaten this way you want
your teflon tape to go the same way if you don't you're gonna have a mess and
you'll find out that you're doing it wrong okay so we've already tightened
these and what I did is I used an adjustable wrench that's all you need
right here to tighten your water pipes and right here and before you even test
the water heater you want to test that your water connections are solid that
they're not leaking any water so you want to make sure if there's any water
from the pipes before you dry them out thoroughly and then you want to go ahead
and turn on your main which is right here and kind of watch for any water
leaks so we're going to go ahead and do that next you can hear the water going
through the tank and you can see there's no leaks
you want to check for that if there is obviously you would have to go ahead and
shut off your main and it's a good idea to be close to your main or at least
have someone if the main is too far from the tank you should have one with them
the proximity and then just check for any water leaks this is solid there's no
leaks there at all so next thing you want to do is check your gas for any
leaks and the way we do that is as you can see there there's this is your main
we're gonna open it up and when we open it up we're gonna spray around here
you're gonna have a 32 ounce water sprayer with some soap in it so I have
mine here and you can see the top there soap in there and if there's any
bubbling around there with the gas open you want to immediately shut off your
gas and retighten so we're gonna go ahead and do that next okay so I just
went ahead and opened it up and I'm just gonna go ahead and start spraying here
okay so that's a close-up and as long you see bubbles there but what I'm
talking about is bubbling where the bubbles are actually bubbling okay so
you don't see that anywhere no spray some more right here and there and all
looks good of course you could always smell the gas and if that's the case
just shut it off immediately and like I said with the water it's always a good
thing to have it close to you just to make sure that it is working properly I
also want to point out that just like you see here they do have them also at
an angle so if you're in a tight situation you can also get them like
this I will also put a link in the description as far as where you can get
these these are critical because with these tankless water heaters your direct
line for gas will not work so you do need to make sure you have your adapter
doesn't matter if it's straight or if you want to have it angled but we're
going we're gonna go ahead and make another video where we'll show it in
operation and talk a little bit more about the tankless water heater but this
is a good to go install so look out for the next video and you should be able to
find it on our video list if not we'll also put a link on a description so you
can see it as well