Insulate the water heater and attic hatch of a home on the 5200 Wilshire block.

Uninsulated water heaters and attic hatches waste heat year-round in this block's older housing stock; wrapping and sealing them is a one-visit efficiency gain on the Energy-Petal ladder.

Where

5200 block of Wilshire Blvd (public right-of-way + typical residential conditions), Los Angeles, CA 90036 · Open the map

Pay

$85 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after photos + nameplate photo + R-value note + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-16

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Photograph the water heater, its nameplate, and the attic hatch as found; confirm the heater type (wrap electric freely; keep gas-heater wraps clear of the flue, air intake and controls per the wrap instructions).
2. Fit and secure an insulation blanket to the water heater and insulate accessible hot-water pipe runs.
3. Weatherstrip and insulate the attic hatch cover.
4. Photograph the finished work and record material R-values.

What counts as done

• Before photos of the bare water heater, pipes and hatch
• After photos of the wrapped/insulated equipment (flue and controls visibly clear on gas units)
• Materials note with R-values used

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Living Building Challenge, Energy Petal. The Energy Petal is the Living Building Challenge's boldest promise: a building that makes more energy than it uses, proven over a full year of lights, laundry, and cold mornings. Mastery looks like a house so tight and so carefully tuned that its rooftop panels run the meter backward. Every such house began the same humble way, with someone finding the leaks and sealing them. A packet like this one, a few honest hours of sealing and measuring, is the first rung of that ladder. Buildings become net positive one closed gap at a time.