Struggling With The Hot Water Heater Decision (Standard vs. Tankless)

I do know this isn’t a enjoyable subject, and I’m as anxious as y’all are to get to the gorgeous stuff in our bed room suite, however I’d love your enter on this. As you already know, for those who’ve been following this mission, my plan is to show our present visitor lavatory right into a storage closet earlier than later. And the half lavatory in my studio will change into our primary visitor lavatory.

Once we purchased the home, the sunroom was simply an enormous, open, and type of awkward room. I initially thought I might salvage it, however I quickly realized that that wasn’t an choice as a result of it doesn’t have an acceptable ground. The ground in right here is simply layers of plastic, particle board, extra plastic, and business carpet positioned over concrete that I’m assuming was a patio. So with the room not having basis, there was no want in spending cash to restore something above that basis.

However it was, not less than, non permanent location for washer and dryer hookups, which the home didn’t initially have. And it was non permanent location for a sizzling water heater for the reason that authentic location was on the far finish of the storage, as far eliminated because it might have been from all the precise sources of water inside the home. Since all the plumbing needed to be redone anyway to do away with the outdated galvanized metal pipes that have been so corroded that they might solely let a trickle of water by means of, we went forward and had the recent water heater moved to a way more centralized location, and the one location obtainable on the time was the nook of the sunroom, which occurs to be simply on the opposite aspect of the hallway lavatory. You’ll be able to see the place the unique window was within the hallway lavatory above the washer and dryer.

Little did I do know that that “non permanent” answer for each of these would final for 12 years. However now, my washer and dryer lastly have a brand new (and far prettier) house in my walk-in closet.

And after 12 years of dreaming in regards to the day that I can tear down the room that’s (nearly jokingly) known as “the sunroom”, our present sizzling water heater is the final remaining fastened ingredient that’s stopping us from with the ability to tear down that room.

Don’t get me fallacious. The room is stuffed to the brim with stuff. However it’s nearly all stuff that I can both do away with as a result of I gained’t want it anymore (i.e., stuff that got here out of the hallways and visitor bed room), or stuff that can ultimately be relocated to my workshop as soon as I get it organized.

And that simply leaves the recent water heater as the ultimate fastened ingredient within the room that stops me from taking a bulldozer to this room.

As I stated, the brand new location for the recent water heater shall be what’s now the hallway lavatory, which is simply on the opposite aspect of the wall the place it’s situated now. And that rest room appears to be like like this for now…type of. That is the latest image I’ve, which I took once I was planning on doing slightly makeover in right here with new tile, new bathe curtain, and new wallpaper. That makeover by no means totally materialized, and in hindsight, I’m so grateful that I didn’t waste money and time on that makeover. I can maintain on to all the pieces I deliberate to make use of in right here (and retailer the quartz countertop) to make use of sooner or later visitor lavatory once we construct the addition.

And this room will simply be a storage room the place I can preserve Matt’s tools, different home goods that I must retailer (i.e., vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner, and so forth.). I’ll even have the scuttle gap to the crawl house beneath the home put in right here. After which, will probably be the brand new house of the recent water heater.

I’ve already spoken to my contractor about my plans for this room. I instructed him that I’d do all the tear out, after which I would like them to terminate all the plumbing, do the drywall, minimize the scuttle gap to the crawl house, after which set up the brand new sizzling water heater.

I had been planning on a tankless water heater, however as a result of these are all inside partitions (though the one again wall will briefly be an exterior wall till the addition is constructed), that implies that my solely choice is an electrical sizzling water heater. I didn’t assume a lot of it. I’ve heard nice issues about electrical tankless sizzling water heaters. However the one downside is that electrical sizzling water heaters require some fairly heavy wiring and plenty of house within the breaker field. And we’re working out of house in our breaker field. He appeared to assume we might make it work, however on the subject of electrical stuff, the entire “we are able to most likely make it work” factor doesn’t go away me feeling very assured.

So now, I’m having second ideas about attempting to make a tankless sizzling water heater work. I actually don’t have an issue with an ordinary tank sizzling water heater. Our present one is gasoline, and for the reason that line gasoline line is already proper there, it appears to me that it might be cheaper and a lot simpler to simply transfer it to the opposite aspect of the wall and be completed with it. However I’d like to know your ideas, particularly from these of you who’ve had each an ordinary tank sizzling water heater and an electrical tankless sizzling water heater. Is the electrical tankless actually that a lot of an improve? Is it value presumably having to improve our electrical panel?

The one different choice is that I might plan on an exterior tankless gasoline sizzling water heater. However I’ve given this a lot thought, and I can’t determine the place it might even go. I’d have to be a location that’s type of central to all the plumbing in the home. And, sadly, it might probably’t go on the again wherever as a result of there shall be that interim between tearing down the sunroom and constructing the addition. Clearly, we are able to’t reside with out sizzling water for an unspecified period of time between once we tear down the sunroom and construct the addition. In order that would go away the aspect of the home with the master suite and loo, which is the place the outside condenser unit for our HVAC is situated. It’s additionally the place our exterior electrical panel is situated, in order that may be a problem.

The one different location I can consider could be within the space by the breakfast room home windows, however I don’t love the thought of it being positioned wherever on the entrance of our home, even whether it is in that space that’s set again from the entrance porch and the entrance of my studio.

It looks as if it might be a lot simpler and fewer traumatic to simply put it within the hallway storage closet and be completed with it. However that location makes me lean in the direction of having an ordinary gasoline sizzling water heater. Ugh. I simply don’t know, and that is a kind of choices I want another person would make for me. 😀

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.