I would research this heavily, as one of the things I saw when I was looking into them was complaints from people in northern climes who mistakenly installed these in unheated areas of the house that ultimately discovered they were horribly inefficient if the ambient air temps dropped below a certain point. They have heating elements like a conventional heater, too, which kick in if it can’t get enough heat out of the heat pump section.
You can look at the various review sites as well as reviews for them on Lowe’s and Home Despot’s web sites for more information. They do a great job with decent ambient air temperature. Understand that both of mine have been in the garage, where today it’s easily 90+ if not more. My hot water costs dropped easily in half when I changed from a conventional water heater to a hybrid one in my last house. I’ve got one in my “new” house, too. With your rebate that’s a heck of a deal. -D > On Jun 6, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So one great story I got out of the trip up north. About 30 years ago Caldon > thought that the electric water heater was "too expensive" to run so he shut > it off. > Yeah, think about that one for a second, he lived for 30 years with no hot > water. "If I wanted hot water I put a pan on the stove." he told me. > He also didn't drain it for all that time, they did drain it last winter > thankfully. When I turned on the water what came out of the water heater > looked like cafe latte... > Anyway our eventual plan was to replace the electric stove and oil furnace > with propane and probably to do on-demand propane hot water too. That's 3-5 > years into the future though so I was planning to replace the old hot water > heater with a shorty one. Then I priced hot water heaters. Turns out the > little ones are MORE expensive.I also discovered that Maine has a $750 rebate > on a hybrid hot water heater. It seems to me like that is a perfect solution > for a summer house. Home Depot lists a 40 gallon Rheem with a 10 year > warranty for $1200, with the rebate it puts us maybe $100 over what I would > pay for a conventional hot water heater. It'll be basement mounted, I don't > see any problems, if it gets too cold I could just put a fire in the wood > stove, or maybe run a circulation fan from upstairs. > Am I missing something? I know these have been mentioned here before. > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
