Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Water heater

25 August 2013

Re: [DIY] Water heater

I have our new tankless setting in the office right now and will be replacing the old 20 year old unit this October while the wife is on her annual fall sabbatical at the daughters. I need to replace the gas line between the main trunk and the furnace since I'm afraid the new water heater might starve the furnace and better to do it now than have problems in the dead of winter. I've installed several for other folks and have had noting but praise for the units. However one lady has expressed her regrets for not spending the little extra to have the remote when we installed hers. Any time there is a power failure the heater defaults back to its minimum temp setting and she has to go down in the basement and turn the water temp back up before taking her morning shower. The other benefit of the remote is that you can set the temp you like best for a shower or bath and not be wasting energy heating the water to 140 degrees and then adding cold water to cool it back down, plus with small children you can set the max temp during bath time and not worry about scalding.

Dale in the Flatlands. "Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous."

Lee M-S wrote:

We replaced our electric water heater with a gas on-demand. We hired a
plumber to do the gas lines (which you already have) and to reroute the
pipes because we moved it from upstairs to under the house (we have a 10
foot tall "crawlspace;" we park the cars there, too). Even with all that,
it wasn't much of a big deal. Our heater doesn't hook up to electric at
all, the gas is ignited by a 12-volt battery. We've replaced the battery
once in 3 or 4 years.

At 11:04 AM 8/24/2013, you wrote:
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>Hi All!
>I have a 40 gallon gas water heater that died. I need to replace it. It
>only services one bathroom sink and a shower used once daily. I have
>another one for the rest of the house working fine.How hard of feasible
>would it be to replace with an "on demand" water heater?
>Thanks in advance, Kathy