We took care of a few necessities recently. We now have hot water and a working range.

There was a little drama involving the hot water. At one point I thought the plumbing was messed up. It turned out that the shower, in its interim state, mixes the hot and cold water together. This means that shutting off the hot water at the water heater does not turn off the hot water at the tap. That was disconcerting. Also, it caused the water flow through the tankless water heater to be so little that the water heater wouldn’t activate. Once I fixed this all worked quite well.

The range was fairly easy. It uses little igniters to light the burners so has no pilot light. We should sip from our 500 gallon propane tank.

I have noticed that our constant electrical draw is increasing. We’re up to about 150 watts as a minimum and 1000ish as a maximum.