Generally speaking how much should you expect to pay to replace a water heater in a 2500 square-foot house?
montegobay said:
We paid $900 two weeks ago for our 1700 sq foot house.
We got one in the new place. Did not do a switch out though. I like it.andyv94 said:
Sorry, not to derail the topic but has anybody here switch to a tankless gas water heater?
LOYAL AG said:
If you have gas spend the extra money and go tankless. In new construction tankless is about $3000 so the delta is north of $2000 versus a tank but it's an infinitely better product than a tank heater. Simply put you'll never run out of hot water. They produce about 7 gal/minute so do the math on how many it would take to service your house based on the volume of water your showers, sinks, etc. consume. I have a 4/3 with four shower heads and even when my son lived here we could literally have all four showers going at one time and not have a problem.
If you have electric stick to tanks. The electric tankless isn't nearly as good as the gas ones are.
That's normally the case on any retro fit, the exhaust isn't the same from gas tank to gas tankless. My house was built 2004 and it would have required major retro fitting to go to tanklessrc_cat said:
When we were going to replace our water heater, we briefly considered a tankless heater, but were told that it would cost a lot to have to retrofit the pipe system to it - our house is ancient - built in the 70s. I may be misremembering the details, but I do remember the need for retrofitting. YMMV.
What? I am not sure what type of system you have but growing up I was often the third one on the shower after my dad and sister and I very often ran out of hot water during the shower. My parents had a large bath tub and we would run out of hot water before it was full91_Aggie said:LOYAL AG said:
If you have gas spend the extra money and go tankless. In new construction tankless is about $3000 so the delta is north of $2000 versus a tank but it's an infinitely better product than a tank heater. Simply put you'll never run out of hot water. They produce about 7 gal/minute so do the math on how many it would take to service your house based on the volume of water your showers, sinks, etc. consume. I have a 4/3 with four shower heads and even when my son lived here we could literally have all four showers going at one time and not have a problem.
If you have electric stick to tanks. The electric tankless isn't nearly as good as the gas ones are.
We have 5 people in our house including 3 teenaged girls. Have never run out of hot water once even when we had overnight guests.
The only time I've heard of people running out of hot water was in movies and sit-coms from the 60s and 70s.
andyv94 said:
Sorry, not to derail the topic but has anybody here switch to a tankless gas water heater?
evan_aggie said:
Looking at getting an outdoor tankless. Curious if anyone had thoughts.
I was wanting to go with Rinnai, but they are picky about backing up their warranty using not only a licensed plubmer, but one who has been endorsed via a "class" by Rinnai. I hate that sort of stuff.
Rheem doesn't care as long as it is a licensed plumber, and usually they'll warranty it anyway (from what I've read).
TxFig said:andyv94 said:
Sorry, not to derail the topic but has anybody here switch to a tankless gas water heater?
I've had one in my house for 14 years now. What do you want to know?