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Thumbs up. I doubt I'd have passed up a deal like that either.

Important note, don't vent dryers in PVC and don't reduce size. Try to use as little flex as possible.

Being a gas, I would look into getting a tankless. They come with a higher price and a fair amount more work to get them going. There is a decent chance the gas line won't be big enough. The cheapest and easiest would be to stay with the tanked water heater. Being a gas, I would consider hiring it done. Not saying you couldn't handle it, but there are several factors that make it a little more challenging. At work, we sell A.O. Smith. We've sold some Rheemes. Installed customer supplied ones from big box stores. They all seem to be close in quality. In this day and age of a throw away society, we always tell customers they should work great, but there's always the chance they may only last a month or one year.

I see where you're coming from, but I would say the increased cost of the fittings is a deterrent. The high cost of the tool is probably a good thing for plumbers. It definitely keeps an average Joe handyman from doing it. Shark Bite fittings are what is what I feel is the handy man tool.

They allow the water to first go to the mixing valve or the water heater. They bottom two allow the circulation pump to feed the hot line or the water heater. Without them cold water could be fed back through the line not letting you get hot water

The scrap pipe isn't to big of a deal. It's not terribly expensive and they sell it in a larger variety of lengths.( 10' - 500') You can use some of the scrap pieces for other little plumbing things.

They are a little more than regular sweat fittings, but they pay off. Way faster, easier to clean up, good chance it wont leak. Which ciculator? The little pump above to water heater is the hot water re circulation pump.

It's actually a 50 gal. It's just shorter and fatter than most.

The pro press tool works great, Milwaukee M18. It crimps 1/2 - 2'' with the included jaws. It saved a lot of time and hassle on this job. The M12 one would be nice for the less weight and tighter fits. This job had 1/2 - 1 1/4" , but we do floor heat systems that many times has up to 2".

This is a water heater set up I plumbed. It took a little time to get everything to work out. It turned out pretty good in the end though. It was in a medical clinic so the engineer spec'd some things that seemed a little excessive. Before being done The water meter, backflow preventer, and PRV set up

I work for a plumbing contractor that has been in business for over 40 years. We just got a ProPress system last year. There is a reason it is taking over. It is incredible how much nicer and easier it is to work with.

Just an average clamp meter. I have since upgraded to a Fluke 375.

These are my electrical tools

This is my personal collection of Dewalt tools. I use some of them at work from time to time. I may add some to the collection tomorrow. Not pictured is my 12v inspection camera.

A customer at work is building a new house. Total inside and out they have right around 200 can lights. They decided to spend the money right away and put LED trims in all of them right away. Not bad when they are over $35 a piece ( over $7,000 in just the finished light trims). The way some people like lights now a days, 65 isn't to bad for the whole house