Tankless Water Heater Energy Savings
Benefits of tankless water heater? We are building now.?
Anyone have experience with tankless? Are the energy savings, etc. real/noticible? How much sq ft can a tankless system support?
My water heater went out the past friday so I wanted to research and make sure that I was getting the best thing I could (my income tax check just came back so why not splurge).
From the information that I could find, the benefits of the tankless were that there is no need for your gas to run constantly since the water is heated at the time that you use it. I did not go with it however because the local installers needed 3 days to put them in as a plumber and an electrician needed to be there for the installation.
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well that obviously did not work for us.
The initial outlay seemed to be a bit more expensive but I thought that that expense would be more than countered by the fact that you get an energy credit on your taxes and the savings from not having your water heated 24 hours a day 7 days a week……
The plumber that I talked with stated that the problem with them was that unless you get a fairly large one, you cannot run several applications at the same time.
(i dont know who does this anyway)
2 showers are the most that goes on at any one time in my house…..but if more than that go on with you then they claim that this would not be ideal as all the water would be warm.
The other thing that you needed to know is that you will need 200 amp service. I assume thatthat is standard in new houses but dont really know and that would be a bear to retro fit.
ANYWAY it really seems like it is the way to go
do some more research on line. I pretty much dropped the issue since i needed hot water immediately (finally got installed Monday)
but if I had more time I would have went with it.
I ultimately ended up with a powervented heater.
It did cost a bit more but apparently it is a bit more energy efficent than the standard.
Look into that if the tankless does not work out!
GOOD LUCK On your new house~
Tankless Hot Water Heaters
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