Another water heater failure! 6 years

[qsd-dan]

Interesting site even though some of their links are dead. They're not fond of tankless water heaters, that's for sure.

An interesting factoid on their site: "How the world uses fresh water: About 70 percent for irrigation. About 22 percent for industry. About 8 percent for domestic use (UN)"

 

[ryner1988]

@chetlaham

Also- if you loose power during a shower goodbye hot water.

We have a gas tankless water heater in our apartment, and this very thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Sucked bigtime because I had just finished soaping up so couldn't just say heck with it and jump out, had to go ahead rinse off. It was a cold day here too so that water was hella chilly.

Also, I wonder about the efficiency of tankless WH and a washer with temperature regulation controlled by cycling the hot water on and off. My 2016 Whirlpool machine had this feature and the WH would kick on and off, on and off, over and over while the washer was filling. Not an issue with the older washer I now have, but in addition to loss in efficiency I can't imagine it was mechanically good for the WH to be doing that.

Over all though I like my tankless WH. It suits perfectly well for two people in a small apartment because very rarely do I need to run more than one hot water function at once.

 

[mark_wpduet]

A cold shower is the most uncomfortable thing

with the exception of if you're really HOT and it's summer...so the cold isn't nearly as cold.... but did you know that COLD showers are actually good for you? There's this whole movement about it..giving reasons why hot showers are bad for you and cold showers are good for you... something about immunity or something. But there is NO way I could do it in the winter.. Not the frigid ice cold water that comes out...it's easier to start with the temp you usually like and turn it down slowly........

NOT that this has ANYTHING to do with the discussion... but cold showers are horrible to me.

 

[sudsmaster]

I'm no fan of cold showers, but I've been washing my hands with cold water for the past few months. So far the water out of the cold tap isn't too cold, but as winter progresses that might change.