Tankless hot water heater??
Monday, July 26th, 2010 at
4:55 pm
I’m considering switching from our 50 gal hot water heater to a tankless. For those of you who have done this, how much did it cost and are you seeing savings on your gas bill? At our current usage, a 50 gal tank takes care of one load of dishs, two loads of laundry and two showers (10-15 minutes long) before we start to loose hot water.
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Filed under: Tankless Gas Water Heater
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It’s the best thing you can do…don’t worry about the cost it will pay for itself in 12-18 months …no hot water storage…and I see you have gas so your good to go…if you had electric I’d have my reservations due to past experiences……Benefits include..less space, gas bill savings, hot water continiously take 20 showers in a row if you’d like….I would suggest you look at Rinnai heaters they are the best in my opinion/past experience…I would also recomend looking at a plumbing wholesaler rather than home depot to find a good one. It will last you longer and most wholesalers will sale to the public. email me if you need more info..ie if your installing it yourself…
Cheers
Josh
I installed one myself and got it on sale at the local supplier. Total cost was about $900. When I was single, it saved about $20 a month on my bill because I didnt use the water in the tank that often. Now that I am married with a kid, we use water so often that I have no idea if it is saving me a dime.
works well at the lake house
but I don’t know about the large consumptions of water at a residential home.
Demand hot water heaters are popular in Europe. I’ve been planning to replace my old heater with a demand heater, but they need good electrical power and I will need to have new wiring put in to run it.
I work for AGL and apparantly the tankless ones are great, are you going gas or electric though? Tankless are also really efficient and have day/night switch/boost capabilities. Rheem is suppose to be one of the better brands available.
I’ve seen this advertised and have been considering it for the upstairs of my house because I’m adding another full bath room, and could use the auxiliary hot water. My main concern is the high level of minerals in the water supply here. I’ve never liked water softeners. How do these hold up to high degrees of mineralization?
I too have been considering… the technology seems to have caught up with expectations… here is a nice article, links:
http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/Plumbing/tankless-water-heaters
well worth it ..I save literallybhundreds of dollars a year ..it will pay for its self in no time .. I say go for i t..
For single person its a good idea but for long run conventional water heaters are best.
I’ve installed over 100 of them in the last two years and have great luck with them. This assumes it is gas. The electric ones suck!
Also sounds like you’re water heater is OLD because the load you spoke of isnt much of anything. Sounds like you have a problem with the heater or your piping is not insulated.
Another possibility might be (if it is electric) that it is a two element model and one of the elements is dead.
I would NOT recommend an electric tankless. They are not worth it. NOt enough flow rate.
Gas Yes! I’ve used the Rinnai and the Takagi.