- 1. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Storm Field" <wamrazing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:50:47 -0500
- Hey Guys; Spent a lot of time travelling out of the country a while back where these tankless heaters are very common. Got a chance to use gas models, electric models, whole house and point of use he
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- 2. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:21:04 -0800 (PST)
- The tankless guys are great - just be aware that they draw a lot of electrical current (or natural gas) and your 'fuel plumbing' needs to be up to the task. We replaced our water heater a few months
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00003.html (7,922 bytes)
- 3. RE: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:45:06 -0800
- Whatever flow rate & rise they will supply, they will supply indefinitely. So you never "run out" of hot water like with a tank. But I just did a little calculation for my house. To support 140F wat
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00004.html (9,218 bytes)
- 4. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:59:37 -0500
- Are there plain storage tanks available that you could plumb in where the old water heater was, and then use a tankless for heating? jim
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- 5. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:37:45 -0800
- That's a *huge* amount of simultaneous water usage. Agreed, tankless doesn't necessarily make sense on a straight economic basis. We went tankless because I wanted the space where the water heater w
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00007.html (10,365 bytes)
- 6. RE: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:05:25 -0800
- True, but it accurately describes "worst case" in my own home. And it also describes a situation that my current hot water system can handle reasonably well, as long as the showers and faucet usage
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- 7. RE: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:17:45 -0800
- The tanks are available, but why ? You'd have to add a pump to circulate the water through the tank back into the heater, since otherwise it will get cold in the tank. And since you're still keeping
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00011.html (8,549 bytes)
- 8. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Patton Dickson" <57healey@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:50:03 -0600
- I understand that when retrofitting an existing system, a gas type is the way to go as it may take multiple electrics to do the job. I also understand that the gas heaters need MUCH more venting than
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00012.html (8,591 bytes)
- 9. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:20:02 -0500
- One place that demand-driven water heaters really shine is where the input water is pre-heated, or partially pre-heated. For instance, if you've got a solar water heater, you can feed water that's 10
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00014.html (9,055 bytes)
- 10. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:59:09 -0500
- This is somewhat close to my point, which I did a horrible job of making :-) If there's a plain 50 gallon storage tank where the old heater was, you now have 50 gallons of refreshed drinking water fo
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00016.html (9,895 bytes)
- 11. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Darrell Walker <darrellw@ipns.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:33:28 -0800
- Thanks everyone for the information/opinions on tankless water heaters. It looks like if I go this route, I will at least have to have a new gas line run, since the existing heater is only on a 1/2"
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00020.html (9,898 bytes)
- 12. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Williams <ronin@aristotle.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:24:11 -0600
- I checked into an instant heater a few months ago. While they seem to be common and inexpensive in Europe and Canada, they're ridiculously expensive in the USA - for one that would handle a full-flow
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00025.html (8,457 bytes)
- 13. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Williams <ronin@aristotle.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:32:47 -0600
- We have a 40-gallon gas water heater. I typically use the whole tank during a long shower. The water temp drops down to 130F or so and stabilizes, so once I've shut the cold water off completely, the
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00026.html (8,814 bytes)
- 14. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "E. John Puckett" <ejpuckett@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:31:19 -0600
- One thing to remember with your "old" hot water heater, is that if you have hard water, and the heater is very likely has large amounts of lime in it. I used to work in an appliance shop, and have se
- /html/shop-talk/2006-03/msg00027.html (9,419 bytes)
- 15. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "Marknsuz" <marknsuz@pacbell.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:06:39 -0800
- A note of warning to anyone considering an electric tankless water heater: make sure that your incoming electrical service can handle the load. I recently put one in the house I just built, after upg
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- 16. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 07:10:47 -0500
- Another thing to consider: The energy bill passed last fall has some tax credits for installing efficient water heaters. I can't remember the details, though, except the standards are pretty high. --
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- 17. Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: Darrell Walker <darrellw@ipns.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:42:39 -0800
- We are considering replacing our current gas water heater (16 years old) with either a newer, larger conventional unit or a whole-house tankless unit. They way our family's schedule is, we usually e
- /html/shop-talk/2006-02/msg00082.html (7,847 bytes)
- 18. Re: Tankless whole-house water heater (score: 1)
- Author: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:47:58 -0800
- We are considering going the same way when our 6 year old gas heater finally dies. I am interested in any responses as well. FWIW, I belong to Gold's Gym. They moved to a new location a few years ago
- /html/shop-talk/2006-02/msg00084.html (7,008 bytes)
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