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Are these worth the installation cost? Buying our retirement home, and it has a water heater (75 gallon) in the attic.Second floor heated by an AquaTherm system. Don't really like that idea, whole bunch of water that could escape.. Running on propane. Plenty of room in the laundry room, gas and water piping present. Only issue would be the vent, might have to go up through the ceiling into the second floor attic then to the roof. I suppose it could be mounted in the same spot in the attic as well. In AR, so temps are moderate for the most part. Well water, no idea of its temp right now. Going to replace the older HVAC systems (two split units) so don't need the 75 gallon tanked one anymore.
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Water tanks in the attic are a bad idea. So are indoor tanks at floor level. Have a tankless gas system mounted outside, very pleased with it.
I am..........disturbed.
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Get that water bomb out of your attic right off the bat.
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Mine mounted outside too, love it!
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Not a chance in hell for me. Look at Texas. "We ain't wasting no money building our houses for for cold weather. Don't bury those pipes deep, it's not cold here" "Oh 9uck, it got cold. Now we are screwed!"
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My water heater is an electric 80 gallon made in 1992. It's way overdue. I'm going to replace it with a tankless when it dies.
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They're mounted outside because they're propane powered.
Ours works great but we had to install an inline filter. We're in the sand hills and sand can gum up the impeller that spins to tell the burner to turn on.
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Are these worth the installation cost? Buying our retirement home, and it has a water heater (75 gallon) in the attic.Second floor heated by an AquaTherm system. Don't really like that idea, whole bunch of water that could escape.. Running on propane. Plenty of room in the laundry room, gas and water piping present. Only issue would be the vent, might have to go up through the ceiling into the second floor attic then to the roof. I suppose it could be mounted in the same spot in the attic as well. In AR, so temps are moderate for the most part. Well water, no idea of its temp right now. Going to replace the older HVAC systems (two split units) so don't need the 75 gallon tanked one anymore. Tankless water heaters have a huge burner in them. You need to have a flu study done to see if your furnace will draft with the tankless running. Tankless water heaters don't do well on well water, pun intended.
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Mounting outside would be easy for the exhaust venting. Subject to freezing as well. Laundry room has an outside wall, but the piping and gas lines are on the inside wall. I do want to get the 18 year old 75 gallon water bomb out of the attic... Had one go once, in the garage, but still was not pretty.
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Tanks are a pain when they die. But it's nice to have an emergency reserve of 80 or so gallons of good water in a pinch...
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Mounting outside would be easy for the exhaust venting. Subject to freezing as well. Laundry room has an outside wall, but the piping and gas lines are on the inside wall. I do want to get the 18 year old 75 gallon water bomb out of the attic... Had one go once, in the garage, but still was not pretty. Look into a power vent for the laundry room. Still need the flu study. Hart & Cooley has a table on the internet for flu calculations. It must be installed correctly, Operation is silent, Failure is silent, Death from carbon monoxide is silent.
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Yep, wondering about a water softener or filter. None present. No hard water problems that I could see, but it is well water. Pump house, well pump, pressure tank etc checked out fine with an inspection, have not had the water fully tested yet. Passed the quick test, will get a sample to a "Lab" before closing.
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We had a natural gas powered Rinnai unit installed in our house when it was built 12 years ago. We've been very pleased with it, and I would not want to go back to a conventional tank system.
Ours is mounted on the outside wall of the house, and the only time it has frozen (actually just slushed up a little) was when the temps got down in the low single digits. Leaving a faucet running has always been adequate to keep it from happening again.
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A friend bought one, his plumber told him to take it back.
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I have two with zero issues. One in a garage closet the other in an "outside" closet. My place was built with them. Pay attention to fuel line size on a retrofit.
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Are these worth the installation cost? Buying our retirement home, and it has a water heater (75 gallon) in the attic.Second floor heated by an AquaTherm system. Don't really like that idea, whole bunch of water that could escape.. Running on propane. Plenty of room in the laundry room, gas and water piping present. Only issue would be the vent, might have to go up through the ceiling into the second floor attic then to the roof. I suppose it could be mounted in the same spot in the attic as well. In AR, so temps are moderate for the most part. Well water, no idea of its temp right now. Going to replace the older HVAC systems (two split units) so don't need the 75 gallon tanked one anymore. Sounds like a great place for retiring.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Yep, wondering about a water softener or filter. None present. No hard water problems that I could see, but it is well water. Pump house, well pump, pressure tank etc checked out fine with an inspection, have not had the water fully tested yet. Passed the quick test, will get a sample to a "Lab" before closing. ner I just installed a special water softener for well water. It has a KDF pre filter in place of the top basket inside the tank. The KDF is a metal media that enables the softener to handle a little clear water iron.
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Well, for what I'm getting and what it costs.. I think so. You may not....
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My nephew in Dallas has one mounted outside. Last week he lost power for several days and temps are way below freezing. Not sure of his outcome but he was having freezing problems with it.
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