When an amateur diy plumbers is installing a new water heater

[Rreeuuvveenn]

New gas water heater, 50 Gallons,

trying to minimize electrolysis between copper and steel,

putting CPVC fitting,

double wall 3" chimney ,

over kill?

 

[hj]

Yes, and I would NEVER use a CPVC fitting, period. The double wall pipe looks like it just vanished, but the elbow looks like it is going downhill.

 

[Sponsor]

 

[Cacher_Chick]

One would have been much better off if they had spent $20 for a propane torch, some solder, a few fittings, and and hour on the workbench, learning how easy it is to sweat copper.

The CPCV fitting is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Terry]

The nipples that come with new water heaters are plastic lined to prevent interior corrosion.
The first 18" to the water heater should not be plastic. In Californial they want something that can move like a flex connector.
I normally use corrugated copper, but stainless corrugated works too. I don't use the braided flexes on water heaters.
California also wants earthquake strapping.

 

[Cacher_Chick]

The nipples that come with new water heaters are plastic lined to prevent interior corrosion.
The first 18" to the water heater should not be plastic. In Californial they want something that can move like a flex connector.
I normally use corrugated copper, but stainless corrugated works too. I don't use the braided flexes on water heaters.
California also wants earthquake strapping.

All good points. For us in the Midwest, California is like a foreign country.

 

[Bluebinky]

All good points. For us in the Midwest, California is like a foreign country.

Yep, and the "bay area" is like yet another third-world country (with decent plumbing, that is)...

 

[Jughead]

[QUOTE="Terry, post: 519476, member] In Californial they want something that can move like a flex connector.
I normally use corrugated copper, but stainless corrugated works too. I don't use the braided flexes on water heaters.
California also wants earthquake strapping.[/QUOTE]

Have you experienced the stainless braided flexes failing, and if so how soon?