In my last house with limited electricity, I ended up with a power vent Gas. Loved it. Easy to install, with PVC pipe for vent.
The new place has an electric hot water heater, when it fails I might replace it with one of the new heat pump hot water heaters, although I'll need to do a bit more research about how useful that is in my climate (since pulling heat out of the house isn't an ideal thing most of the year). For a while I was enamored with moving to hot water heat and radiant floors in the past place. In that case, I would have bought a very efficient hot water natural gas boiler, and then likely used a domestic hot water exchanger for it. Now, as to your hard water: I highly recommend a water softener ;) Also, you may want to be a bit more aggressive about flushing that hot water heater... On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:35 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > You guys all do different weird shit. Went to drain my gas heater tonite > (may have put that maintenance off longer than intended) > We are quarry country so we have super hard water. Needless to say tanks > full of baked in sediment and when I cleared the valve I may have cracked > the liner, about every ten seconds I'm getting a drip on the burner, and my > pop off is dripping, probably some sediment. > > The water heater is the only thing I have that vents hot anymore and my > chimney leaks in driving rain. Is rather just bash it in and put a > dumbwaiter in the chase. I have the two fresh kids that I bet would have a > blast riding that. > > Power vent gas looks to almost double the cost. > > Tankless is looking almost comparable in price for gas, so I'm curious if > any of you guys run them without major water softener and filters. > > I'm planning on solar in the next 5 or 6 years when I redo my roof so > electric would be the thing I go with on the water heater after the one I'm > gonna have to put in now. > > I like gas water heaters because I know how to fix them, parts are cheap, > same with my clothes dryers. But theyve priced themselves into me looking > at my options. > > Tankless I dont know how to calculate gpm needs. But what led to this was > taking the flow reducer out of my low flow shower head and running out of > hot water in 20 minutes. I start my day by scalding myself for about a half > hour cause I'm a filthy bastard and need to be cleansed of my sins. > We have 2 bathrooms and a girl hitting her teens, so I assume we may be > getting into a shower and bath coming on at the same time and the wife > knowing what's good for her and washing dishes. > She wont let me put a wood stove and still in the bathroom, so wood fired > shower options are out. > Are residential boilers a thing? All my walls had pocket doors so I have > plenty of room for radiant walls, I dont know if boiler heat it even > efficient though. > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- - Forrest
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