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Over this past weekend we underwent a big project for our house. We replaced our old 40 gallon hot water tank for a 50 gallon power vent hot water tank. I will give you a moment to lower your hype. I know! haha.
This was a very exciting project for us, more so Darrel, because this meant we could remove the massive B-vent running through the middle of our house. Getting us one step closer to our open floor plan dreams. What I have been told this difference between the two systems is the original b-vent relies on evaporations/draft to vent out fumes from the hot water tank. And normally they just get reabsorbed into the tank. The power vent has a fan like system that pumps the fumes outside of the house actively, instead of them floating up and outside. I don't think one is better than an other, just a different way of doing it. The nice thing about this new tank is even though it is larger, it uses less BTU's than our previous tank meaning it is more energy efficient, which is always a bonus.
B-Vent

No B-Vent

Luckily for us I have a very handy and willing husband as well as very helpful and knowledgeable in-laws which allowed us to do this project ourselves saving a good chunk of money. It look us most of the day Saturday but by the end of it we have a larger hot water tank and no vent, which made us both very happy.


Isn't it beautiful. Very nice job boys, and as always thank you so very much!
On Monday our contractor and structural engineer came by to check things out so we are well underway having the load-bearing walls removed. Very exciting. Not much going on until then, just more demo and prep for this big job. Stay tuned :)


Lauren xo




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