Sunday, September 09, 2012

Hall Bath Work

We've burned out two little floor heaters in our hall bathroom over the last six plus years.  And we've never even tried to turn on the existing wall heater that's in there (You can see for yourselves why).  We'd purchased a replacement wall heater a while ago but never installed it.  Since winter is approaching, we decided to install it.  And we decided to connect the light in the venting fan to power as well.

Here are photos of the heater before, during and after.  The new heater is a little bit smaller so I just filled the gaps with Gorilla tape.  The wall is going to be removed (hopefully soon) to make room for a nook that will house the new sink... so doing wall repair and rebuilding just isn't energy well spent.

The light switch/outlet got replaced by a GFCI and double toggle switch.  The existing light in the bathroom will remain and have the fan light tied into it so they'll both turn on when the top switch is on.  The bottom switch will control the night light that's in the fan fixture.

Here are some photos of the other side of the wall.  I'm going to take some drywall remnants and close it all up.

But we're going to keep the hall access open for now so that we can use the space as additional storage.  Yay, storage!

I also finally connected the second bedroom heater to the service panel. And... yes, it works!

2 comments:

  1. woohoo, everything is working and more storage!
    you've been working hard, Popa.

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  2. Anonymous10:27 AM

    Hey, Ken here, I have a new 220 in wall electric heater with forced air, beige it would be capable of heating a fair size room. I am never going to use it. You are welcome to it for the cost of shipping it to you. Honeywell if I remember correctly so good brand. Hit me on facebook if you are interested.

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