At that point you should just get a tankless and never have your shower cry sessions interrupted by cold water again.
Every tankless I’ve used has been a piece of crap. Constantly breaking down. Heat surging and going cold in the shower. Outright just not heating water. All within 2 years of install. Never again. Tanks only for me from now on.
That’s amazing. I mean, I haven’t seen/heard of a tanked hotwater heater in my country in decades, outside of increasingly infrequent rooftop solar heated tanks.
We’ve got instant gas, but I suppose most are electric now. Been running for decades with only needing to be adjusted between summer and winter temps sometimes.
Tanks are just… Useless. Takes up space with no benefit. Tanks use more power or gas. They fail more often (despite your personal experience).
If your tankless system is lasting less than 20 years, you’re doing something wrong. If your tankless isn’t giving steady water temp nonstop, you’re doing something wrong. I mean, those are two of the main benefits they have over tanks. That, and cheaper to run.
Their only advantage is they’re cheap to buy and cheap to install.
It’s the cheap boots issue.
You save money up front and so you waste money long term.
Or, you buy good boots that last.
If you live in an area with hard water, you are suppose to descale the heater at least once every year by flushing the system with some citric acid solution, otherwise you may get irregular hot water flow.
You haven’t been to Europe then. I have a boiler in my basement which delivers hot water for two bathrooms and a kitchen as long as I want with constant temperature and never breaking down. That’s not even something special just the standard.
Dang that sucks. My house came with some kind of Rinnai unit and it’s worked pretty well. I clean it out with a special chemical wash every year or two and it’s been great. Every now and then it decides it doesn’t want to go, but I just unplug and plug it in and it’s good for the next few months.
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I ended up getting 2 hot water tanks and putting them in series. Endless hot water doing it that way. I’ve also plumbed it so that if one fails I can adjust a few valves and run on one tank until I can fix/replace the other.
I should note, I live 160km from the nearest city so I can’t just call a guy out to fix things.
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I talked to a plumber and it’s what he recommended. I decided to not to question someone with far more experience than me. Your solution would probably work too.
As a Dutch person I’ve never seen a water heating system with a tank like in the US, we all use boilers and they are fantastic. Boilers are harder to use in “big” homes though.
I’d rather be able to shower with no power tbh…specifically opted for at.ospheric for that reason. Much cheaper to buy upfront and works in the event of big storms etc… tankless can suck my dirty nuts but I see the appeal, kinda…
Unless you’re showering in the basement, then your pump doesn’t work, and you’ll flood the basement as soon as you fill up the waste water tank.
So… Shower with no power. Instant gas heaters are the best option. Cheap to run, steady temp, no electricity needed.
Well, once in one place I rented I had to change the 9v battery that was used to light/spark it, but otherwise, no electricity needed at all.
Don’t have household gas? Just connect it to a gas bbq bottle. For me, I had to swap it every month, but for a family, I’d probably get a bigger canister. They’re all fairly cheap to refill-swap.
Tankless are so much better in every way.
I’d love to see a tankless that you can run without power, also please don’t hook up a natural gas tankless to propane…
I mean, it was just a common off the shelf unit, wasn’t anything special, but I don’t live there anymore. I can msg the landlord to get a photo or something of the model number if you want to buy one?
I mean, what does it need power - beyond the 9v battery for the starter - for?
And as for propane, why not? That’s what they’re designed and built for. You’re weird.
Inducer motor for starters. This blows hot gasses outside. Circuit boards need power, the switches and relays on the boards. There’s programming and timings that are on the boards. Most models now also have wifi modules too.
Wut? No. None of that.
Programming for what? What switches and relays? You have no idea what you’re on about. 🤦
Are you talking tank, or tankless. Tankless gas all of that
Tank can easily have none except solenoid in valve
Holy shit this caught me off guard, hahahaha.
Rookie numbers.
District heating wins yet again ;)
And the one pictures doesn’t need hydro so you can do it after having your power cut.
$2,000 USD later… 🥵🙌
Invest
Go tankless or go home baybee
I only went tankless because Walter White made it sound cool.
as someone who has only ever lived in an apartment, the idea that you’d run out of hot water is so fucking insane to me
Aww so you don’t know the feeling of trying to convince yourself that the water coming out of only the hot pipe is still warm enough to continue showering.
How do you know when you’re done showering when the shower doesn’t kick you out?
