Posted on 02/22/2015 8:59:13 AM PST by Mean Daddy
If it’s been a while since you took stock of the age and vitality of your water heater, now would be a good time to do so.
Mechanical rooms and homeowners’ appliance budgets are about to get more cramped after April 16, when the latest round of federal standards stipulating increased energy efficiency of residential water heaters takes effect.
The standards stem from a 1987 Department of Energy law called the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act.
Water heater manufacturers are responding with energy-saving additions like advanced electronics, more insulation and heat pumps, which means new units promise to get taller, wider and more complicated than their less-efficient predecessors.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
Also means long wait for hot water and not very hot at that.
(It ain’t a “hashtag”....it’s a damn pound sign. ###)
My thoughts exactly. OR a number sign. I never could figure out where the “hashtag” moniker came from...nor do I care! Sounds like something out of Hollywood.....
Dummy here....how did the water get hot without power?
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That’s a better price than most... and people like it. Thanks for sharing.
http://www.amazon.com/Takagi-T-KJr2-IN-LP-Indoor-Tankless-Propane/dp/B0057X28EG
do you have a tankless?
“”It was a tight squeeze getting the new one in so hope it lasts as long.””
Did you HAVE to buy one of the new ones with the new requirements? If they were available last year, what does the 4/15 date mean? That’s what I’m concerned about - the space we have one in now and placing a larger size in that space..
The heat exchangers in Tankless/on-demand water heaters freeze and break in cold climates. For any brainiacs claiming that some of them don’t, the challenge is -40, F, with 110 mph wind gusts.
Some homebuilt, drainback water and space heating systems are the best for northern climates with sunlight, but some of the main components in them are outlawed by the florida solar heating lab racket (constituents behind the politicians). Most inspectors in CO will reject them and any build that isn’t very common and familiar to them. Rocket stove mass heaters are outlawed by the expensive wood stove racket (constituents behind the politicians). The common closed loop systems preferred by installers (plumbers) are exceedingly expensive and ineffective (huge amounts of antifreeze needing periodic replacement, too little thermal mass, glass tubes in certified collectors often break at high elevations during rapid temp changes).
Excellent!
Put a Bosh tankless in my house in Alaska ten years ago. Worked great. Could run everything in the house at the same time and everyone had hot water. The best part was when I was working and gone for two weeks no gas was used. Sold that house and retired to the South so I don’t know in the long run how it worked out.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will have My Man look into it for me. He needs a new water heater too, and he LOVES quick fixes like this. :)
#octamethylcyclobutane
Wood stove manufacturers did the same with wood stoves through the EPA. With Step 2 of the EPA rule coming in 5 years, the currently most expensive wood stoves, boilers (including outdoor boilers) and pellet stoves will be outlawed. New stoves then will require some extremely expensive and hot burning re-burners guaranteed to run through firewood, re-burners and exhausts unprecedentedly fast. It’s all an extension of the shutdown of the manufacturing base, broken glass economics and ultimately self-consuming new fascism.
You have ‘A Man’!
Good for you.
I really need a 75 gallon unit which are NOT energy efficient. Also, you should never have to replace a tankless. I agree with others that you have to flush either system on an annual basis.
Our water is so hard that ours last maybe 4 years. Average hardness is over 80. They might last longer if the sediment drain actually was low enough to get it out.
We just got engaged on Valentine’s Day, the poor sap!
It’s going to be a LONG engagement. After serving 20 years in a ‘craptacular’ marriage, I’m in NO rush! :)
Diana announces her engagement on a thread about water heaters. Seems appropriate, LOL!
WOW!
I wish you both the very best.
Thanks! So far so good...four years in! :)
Ours has been flawless for 4 years. Never run out of hot water
Our LPG unit is going on its 17th year. Been a great investment. All I have to do is clean the little pilot filter occasionally.
We use the freed space in the water heater cabinet for stored drinking water.
I don’t like having reply #100.
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