5200 block of Wilshire Blvd (public right-of-way + typical residential conditions), Los Angeles, CA 90036
Insulate the water heater and attic hatch of a home on the 5200 Wilshire block.
Wrap the uninsulated water heater and seal the attic hatch of a home on this block; both waste heat year-round in older Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $85 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos + nameplate photo + R-value note + GPS
- Open until2026-12-25
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Wrap the uninsulated water heater and seal the attic hatch of a home on this block; both waste heat year-round in older housing. Wrapping and sealing them is a one-visit efficiency gain on the Energy-Petal ladder. For the payer: - Price: $85 per job, counted in square feet insulated. - Likely payer: LADWP rebate programs, paid to the account holder after the program's pre-approval. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-2 Insulation and Acoustical license.
Offer to pay $85. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Keep gas-unit wraps clear of flue, burner access and controls. If you find crumbling old insulation you suspect is hazardous, do not disturb it: stop, photograph from a distance, and flag for a licensed assessor. Stop and tell the owner before you disturb pre-1978 paint beyond the EPA RRP minor-repair limit or anything that may be asbestos (vermiculite, duct wrap, popcorn ceiling, 9-inch floor tile); photograph it, never touch it, and leave it to an RRP-certified firm or a licensed abatement contractor.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: puncture-resistant boots for nails and sharp points underfoot; cut-resistant gloves for insulation fibers, nails and sharp edges.
- Outdoors: wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
- Outdoors: heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- Obtain two things in writing before any work: the owner's or manager's consent for this work at this address, and, when an LADWP rebate pays for it, the rebate pre-approval with the pre-approval photos taken as the program asks. Work done before the pre-approval can be ineligible, so the start waits for it. Write both at the top of your proof.
- 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).
- Fit and secure an insulation blanket to the water heater and insulate accessible hot-water pipe runs.
- Weatherstrip and insulate the attic hatch cover.
- 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
- Site record: the exact site's name and street address, and the contact who agreed to the work
- Consent: the owner's or manager's written consent, naming the address and the work, dated before the first photo.
- Pre-approval first: the LADWP rebate program's pre-approval or reservation number and date, from before any work, or the words 'no rebate' when none is claimed.
- Completion matches the pre-approval: the pre-work photos taken for it, and the completion measurements (square feet insulated and the installed R-value) that match what the program approved.
- Sign-off: the owner or manager signs off the finished work in writing, and LADWP's completion review accepts the record when a rebate pays for it. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
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.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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