Anybody had a new gas hot water heater installed lately. I got sticker shock. My current one has finally gone tits up after 23 years.
It may need to be up to code, with the expansion?? tank and what not. Labor tax sucks too.....
If you go tankless, make sure you get someone who knows what they are doing! Ask me how I know.
https://www.lowes.com/pl/Tankless-gas-water-heaters-Water-heaters-Plumbing/4294859098Can you give me a rough idea of what the tankless goes for? Mine is about 11 years old and I'm getting the feeling some days it's just not up to par as far as heating the water.
You beat me to it!I'd look for a normal water heater. Trying to heat hot water seems redundant.
I was thinking the exact same thing!You beat me to it!
Consider a tankless. More efficient and you never run out of hot water.
We switch permanently to a french press coffee maker after our last coffee maker died. Got the biggest one made. Also have smaller ones for travel.Just my 2 cents but I was on track to, as a preventive/efficiency measure, to replace mine with a tankless shortly before Mathew knocked our power out for 8 days. For the first 2 days I was able to take a hot and then warmish shower due a combination of how high I keep mine turned up and the apparently good insulation. Being 11B in a previous life, I can get down with cold aussie showers but the lady on the other hand..... Lets just say we decided to replace with a traditional model and add a French press to the emergency stores. Makes for a better start to the day.
Just my 2 cents but I was on track to, as a preventive/efficiency measure, to replace mine with a tankless shortly before Mathew knocked our power out for 8 days. For the first 2 days I was able to take a hot and then warmish shower due a combination of how high I keep mine turned up and the apparently good insulation. Being 11B in a previous life, I can get down with cold aussie showers but the lady on the other hand..... Lets just say we decided to replace with a traditional model and add a French press to the emergency stores. Makes for a better start to the day.
Good thing about our tankless unit is its gas and only need 115v to run it. As long at there is water pressure and propane even a tiny genny will spark it.
Make copy of your original receipt, put it in a zipper bag, tape the bag to the back of the heater,
you'll thank me for this in about five years when the receipt is needed.
I suspected such was the case.Well, well...... I started looking a little harder at the heater today and low and behold the geniuses planted a natural gas heater instead of a propane. Called them up and they showed up post haste. Will have new heater next week. I just didn't think exhaust could smell that bad and make that much soot. I'm used to working with industrial stuff so now I have an education on residential.