Heat Pump Water Heater install question

[costello2525]

Bought a heat pump water heater for my daughter's newly purchased house, replacing a standard electric from when the house was built in 1987! New unit a Rheem Pro Terra 65 gallon purchased from Home Depot and installed by their sub contractor for an inflated price ($1400 install.) After looking at the attached picture of the install, I have some concerns. It looks like the installer emptied his spare parts bin on the unit. Flex pipes, sharkbites, uponor pex, pvc, cpvc, glued joints, uponor joints, sharkbite joints and more 90's than a retirement home! And what's that snorkel on the cold water inlet pipe? May be all good and needed but just looks weird and sloppy to me. Not happy with the location in the utility room but not the issue here. What do you think?

 

[breplum]

Definitely a slap-dash joke. UNimpressive.
Where does the pan drain to? Most codes require temp/pressure relief to be piped to outdoors and drain pan to outdoors or working area drain.
Doesn't meet UPC codes for piping support.

 

[Twowaxhack]

The drain pan should be 4” larger in diameter than the water heater for that unit.

It has automatic leak detection and water turn off. It exercises the valve every 30 days.

The flex lines are suggested by Rheem.

The relief line is improper. That’s is potentially dangerous. If it activated due to over temp it would spray water all over the room.

The white plastic line is a condensation line.

It’s not installed perfect but it probably will work fine. Get the relief line up to code…..