<p>My friend has one in their house and they aren’t too happy with it. It takes a long time for water to get hot and thus wasteful unless you install one close to the bathrooms and one close to the kitchen. But if you have a small summer place, perhaps it won’t matter.</p>
<p>In a tank situation, we have a recirculating pump on a timer so hot water is instant. Not sure you can install one in a tankless situation since hot water is not “ready” until you turn on your faucet.</p>
<p>We had one when we lived overseas and I was not impressed with the consistency of the temperature, especially when another faucet is turned on at the same time.</p>
<p>We just installed a tankless heater. The time it takes for the hot water to reach my faucets is exactly the same as it was for our previous hot water heater. That is because no matter what type of heater, a certain amount of water sits in the pipes and gets cold. That is what comes out first. The only way around that is a recirculating pump, which can indeed be installed with a tankless heater. The upside to a tankless heater is once going, you don’t run out. The water from our tankless heater gets plenty hot, in fact, I was thinking about turning it down a notch. Very easy to adjust the temp on our tankless as there is a digital panel right on the front of it.</p>
<p>In my house I have a super-insulated external tank that holds hot water that is heated by my high efficiency boiler. It loses maybe 4 or 5 degrees per day if the hot water doesn’t get used.</p>
<p>I have forced-hot-water heat, so it was very easy to hook up (in fact, my boiler is designed to be used with one). If you don’t have forced-hot-water heat, this type of setup probably is impractical.</p>
<p>Just wanted to let everyone know that they broke ground today on the house. I am so excited! There are still many many decisions to be made though.</p>
<p>Well our opportunity to build a house fell apart – but we remained committed to a summer place in this town – and we closed on our beach house last Friday. It’s 15 years young, very tiny and very cute, with amazing views of the water and beach. It is absolutely a vacation home; simply too small for it to be our only home.</p>
<p>And I have been SHOPPING! My (first) furniture delivery comes on Friday!</p>
<p>Congratulations cnp55! That is very exciting. They broke ground on our place yesterday and starting installing the pilings. It is interesting how they make these houses, they sink 25 or 35 feet pilings into the sand and build the house around them. I don’t completely understand the physics…the house is NOT on stilts but the garage and any ground floor living areas have the pilings about every 7 feet throughout. It will take close to a year to complete our house (says the builder) so this time next year it should be ready for occupancy. Then I get to go shopping for furniture!</p>
<p>definitely, master on main floor. The house we currently live in has that and I love it. Laundry room on main floor, although most houses are like that now a days anyways. I find our ceremic tile can be slippery when it is wet, I would be careful putting ceramic right inside outside doors (or use a small area rug there).<br>
yup, yup, yup. Although my H tends to fill the “available space” so maybe smaller is better.</p>