Topic: Not very exciting and way off topic - tankless water heaters

[Serenity]

hmm I dont know much bout water things but I do know my rheem sits outside on my patio and we are never concerned with hot water ..endless supply..tho the redback spiders like to sit under and around it...is that a *nasty*

[74cb750]

My brother pre-heats his water in 8 35gallon aluminum barrels in his
solar collector, then it goes down cellar to his wood fired hot water
tank, then into an on-demand natural gas tank then the faucets.

During the winter his gas costs are zero
and most of the wood he has also cost him zero.

Kind of a neat one-off setup.
peace,
michel

[Gordon]

Serenity, what happened?  It says you're only a "Guest" now.

[techy5025]

The first time I ran into one of the "demand" heaters was in a hotel in Phuket, Thailand.
This jobbee ran on natural gas...which was OK except the gas line to the heater was a
length of clear plastic hose similar to what we rejected in the discussion of bike fuel hoses.
And the ends were a slip on with no clamp! 

It didn't work very well, but it was so hot there you didn't need much hot water, fortunately.

Jim