One thing to remember with your "old" hot water heater, is that if you
have hard water, and the heater is very likely has large amounts of lime
in it. I used to work in an appliance shop, and have seen 40 and 60
gallon heaters that had so much lime (calcium) in them they held less
than 10 gallons of water. Frequently replacing the old one with a newer
one will improve efficiency and the amount of water available both.
Dave Williams wrote:
>
> John Miller wrote:
>
>> Problem is, once it's gone, it's gone, and you're waiting a good long
>> time to get *any*. With tankless, you can run hot water all day long
>> as long as you don't run too much of it at any one time.
>
> We have a 40-gallon gas water heater. I typically use the whole tank
> during a long shower. The water temp drops down to 130F or so and
> stabilizes, so once I've shut the cold water off completely, the
> shower temp never gets lower than that. Which is lukewarm for me, too
> hot for my wife, so she showers after I do.
>
> As long as I don't want to steam up the bathroom in a mega-shower,
> our old gas heater functions the same as a "tankless" water heater.
> The heater is >40 years old and the burner might have more oomph than
> modern ones; it was made when people expected "hot" water to be HOT.
>
--
John
another one of them
*.?-!.* cub owners
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