Matt and I want a brand new scorching water heater. The one we’ve got has change into an actual ache. The pilot mild goes out commonly, and generally it’s a problem to get the factor to come back again on. It appears to have a thoughts of its personal, so generally I can get the pilot mild restarted instantly. Different instances, it gained’t restart for days. It at all times restarts ultimately, although. And I’d moderately do it myself, even when meaning not having scorching water for 3 or 4 days, than have the plumber come out each single time and cost me a payment with each single go to, particularly after I’m doing the very same course of that he does to get it restarted. To date, I feel the longest we’ve been with out scorching water is about 4 days, however it at all times comes again on ultimately. However I do know the day is coming when it gained’t come again on in any respect, and I’d moderately not wait round for that to occur.
Anyway, I’m bored with coping with it. I hoped that this one would final till we do our addition, after which we may exchange it at the moment. I don’t know if that’s going to work out, although.
Our present one is a typical scorching water heater. I’m not fairly certain how large it’s, however it seems to be like a traditional dimension to me. I’ve a big bathtub in our new toilet, and I used to be involved in regards to the scorching water heater not having the ability to present sufficient scorching water for that bathtub.
That hasn’t been an issue, although. There’s loads of scorching water to fill the bathtub. And I’ve by no means had an issue with operating out of scorching water for my showers.
However Matt’s showers are a unique story. Matt is my husband, and he has M.S. and is in a wheelchair. He’s the rationale we turned a main bedroom right into a grasp toilet that features a giant curbless bathe. Giving him a radical bathe is kind of an extended course of, and by the point we end with that, after which I bathe, the new water has run out and I’m caught taking a chilly bathe.
So we’re each in settlement that we want a brand new scorching water heater, and our two choices are (1) get a brand new scorching water heater that’s bigger than our present one, or (2) go tankless. I’m simply undecided which choice I like higher.
I discover consolation in the truth that, so long as the pilot mild is working, we’ve got a big tank of scorching water on the prepared once we want it. And conversely, with a tankless water heater, there’s one thing unsettling to me with the thought of not having any scorching water in reserve. However I do l just like the smaller dimension, and I additionally like that they appear a lot extra environment friendly. Reasonably than having to maintain a full tank of water consistently heated, it solely heats water while you want scorching water. That appears much more environment friendly to me. And so long as they’re working correctly, you by no means run out of scorching water throughout a bathe.
I’ve truly lived with a tankless scorching water heater. Each of my residences in Turkey had tankless scorching water heaters that held on the wall within the kitchen. I keep in mind them working simply positive, so long as I didn’t let the fuel run out. My scorching water heaters in Turkey weren’t linked to a metropolis provide of fuel. As a substitute, they have been hooked to tanks of fuel, identical to the tanks of fuel which might be used for fuel grills, that have been delivered to my entrance door periodically. So long as there was fuel within the tank, the new water heater labored splendidly. However I did have a few events the place the fuel ran out mid-shower.
In order that’s my solely private expertise with a tankless scorching water heater, and that was over 20 years in the past. After we did my mother’s grasp toilet transform over a decade in the past, we had a tankless scorching water heater put in that’s only for that loo. She has had a few issues with it, in order that makes me hesitant. However heck, I’m having issues with my large tank scorching water heater, so I assume it’s no completely different.
So I’d like to know your ideas and experiences with tankless scorching water heaters. Do you advocate them? If that’s the case, is there a selected model you’ve had an important expertise with? How do they examine to the massive tank scorching water heaters in your expertise?
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