LAST EDITED ON Jan-30-12 AT 04:59PM (MST)[p]This has already been Hashed out on MM a few different times!
You can take your Tankless Water Heaters & put them where the Sun Don't Shine!
In the Magazines they only Bragg up the Good points,SUCKS people right in,Especially Greenie Weenies!
Several Reasons NOT to Buy one!
SOB's were designed & Engineered in warm weather placese!
Designed to work where incoming water Tempratures are way warmer than the Cold water in the Basin!
They Burn 200,000 BTU on an average sized Unit,if you don't have a Water Softener & your water is really Hard that Coil ain't lasting long!
I love the local Competition here installing 5 or 6 gallon per minute Units in Big 3 & 4 & % bathroom houses expecting it to do the job,it won't!
For one Instance/Example:You've got a Big Jaccuzi Tub with a Moen Roman Tub Faucet that will flow 15 to 17 Gallons per minute,cut the number in 1/2 for just the Hot side = 7.5 to 8.5 gallons per minute just on the Hot side = more water than the average Tankless Unit will produce,remember Boys,there's other Faucets in the House other people are gonna open = you're out of Hot water in a Hurry unless the system has been sized by a Pro installing the right size unit and/or a couple of them to do the Job!
People that read the Magazines are under the inpression they will have un-limited Hot Water,NOT SO!They are figured on so much temp Rise & cut the Flow(GPM!) rate back so the Unit can heat the Water to a certain Temp!
There's two ways of Venting them,straight up & they are condensating SOB's in this area,the other way is Install the Tankless Unit on a Perimiter Wall & Vent it right out the wall,Sounds good don't it?Well I've seen this more than once,when this POS is off in the middle of the Night She's OFF,No Pilot,it's off,the Temp goes down below Zero,sometimes 30 below here in the Basin,What happens?The Cool Air comes in through the Vent & Freezes the Coil,you bust the Coil you're Screwed!
I'd place Money your Existing Gas Line is not big enough 1911 unless they are running double Regulators,but Hell,We can remove Walls/Sheetrock & Fix that for you!
(I'm sure Red wouldn't mind a little Demolition!)
Good Bastards Ain't they?
This just happened a few weeks ago:Local Guy wants me to Install one for him a year ago,I said NO!I know the Guy & if it happen to Fail in 20 years from now He'd be all over my Ass,so He hires another local to Install it & he thinks He's in Seventh Heaven,well this same Guy calls me a few weeks ago & the TANKLESS heater has SShit the Bed,He can't get the Guy that installed it to even come & look at it,and then he tells me:I should have listebned to you,Ya you should have but you didn't,this guys is out 3K & very Pissed,but not at me!
He called the Factory,Factory said:You running a Water Softener,He says No I'm not,CLICK!!!
There are Places for them don't get me wrong!
The price it would cost you to have one installed is at least 3-4 times as much as a Tank Type!
So 1911?
Do I stay with Red while you're in KONA so I can take care of the Plumbin?
Hot Dog,Hot Damn,I love this Ameri-can
