New water heater

First thing is to drill a hole through the side of the house.  I did a 6" hole for a 4" pipe so I could wrap the pipe in an inch of fiberglass so it doesn't get too hot on the wood.

I borrowed my neighbor's 6" hole saw, so I had to stop every inch or so to break out the wood so I could keep going.  There was about 11" inches of wood, so it ended up taking about 5 hours to get through.

Since this is just temporary, I just used a few pieces of wood out of my pile down there to mount it.

And since the outside of my house looks like shit anyway, I figured I'd just go full redneck on it.  I also plan on switching to a condensing type later, so that would require different holes anyway.