Tank-less Water Heater

My husband is a licensed plumber in Vista. He has done several tankless water heaters. One of his customers has propane. When he got his first propane bill after having it installed he called to tell my husband to say thank you. He had just saved $200 on his bill. He has since put in 2 tankless water heater for this customers family members. My husband is out in the desert riding dirt bikes until tomorrow night. If you would like I can have him give you a call on Monday morning. He could come out and give you an est. to let you know what the cost would be. Just send me a personal message if you are interested.

Thanks
Tina

We had tankless hot water in our old house and I loved it. At the time, we had 2 teenage girls. I think the only time they WEREN'T in the shower was when they were on the phone (this goes back 12 - 15 years -- before everyone had a cell phone they could probably use IN the shower!). And I, too, like a long hot shower. We never ran out. Heaven!!! I do have to agree, however, that if more than 2 showers were running at the same time the pressure dropped.

Our current house has a hot water tank and it's OK -- but now that I have teenagers again, I make sure I get the first shower!

DO RESEARCH -seriously. I've heard there are better ones now, but we had a house built 2 years ago and the builder put in a tankless water heater. I have no idea how much it cost on its own. The plusses are that you don't run out of hot water and 3 people can be showering with the dishwasher and the washing machine going and it's all okay. My beef with ours is that is takes FOREVER -and I mean a REALLY long time for the water to get warm. I shudder to think how many thousands of gallons of water we've wasted waiting on it to get warm! We've had it checked twice, and we were told both times that it was just the way the tankless water heaters were, but I've heard they're not all that way, so research that. By forever, I mean 3-5 minutes of cold water before it warms.

My brother has one and they love it, though I did hear something went out on it recently, not sure the details on it, But having instant hot water is great and saves you on running it til it gets warm. I hate that I cant take a nice hot LONG shower even if I wanted to. My hot water runs out in about 20~

We looked into getting one, but after the power was out here for three days at Christmastime a few years ago (Seattle), we still had hot water due to our gas water heater. If we'd had a tankless water heater, then we would have had freezing water to go with our freezing house. We decided to stick with our old faithful.

Yes, do it! After MUCH research we decided on a Tagaki Tankless system and have not looked back. Great company that stands behind their products, competitive prices & warranty. We purchased directly from them & had a local plumber who was certified to install a tank-less system install it for us.
Best investment we have made in our home. We were constantly running out of hot water (this was pre-kids) or having the pilot blow out (at least once a month). Now we can have multiple things drawing on hot water at once with great pressure & never run out (i.e. washer, dishwasher & shower/bath). It is heaven! Plus I can have a hot bath, not half hot--half luke warm. Can not recommend it enough. This does not even touch on the energy/water savings or having to deal with a basement or garage flooded with water when the tank system gives out.

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A lot depends on your house, how it's wired, and how much hot water you actually use. Ours is an older house (built 1967), and an electrician told us that, with our wiring, a tankless water heater for our size household would use more energy every time it kicked on than if we had a kitchen full of stoves running to boil water.