"Gary KW4Z" wrote in message
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Thank you to everyone that contributed on each board. While I haven't
totally made up my mind about what I will do, and I have plenty of time to
do that thankfully, I am leaning (due in part to opinions on these
newsgroups) to staying traditional, with a 50 gallon high efficiency, Gas,
Hot Water Heater with a long warranty.
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Having experience with both tankless and conventional, I much prefer
conventional. Consider this:

We have a standard large tanked water heater which serves kitchen, laundry
and two bathrooms. When we renovated the back half of the house we added a
small cabinet in the new hobby room with a second water heater tank inside
which serves only the adjacent master bathroom. This gives us hot water
within seconds.

( We also did a few other unconventional things such as adding an outdoor
sink and shower so that you can clean up and shower after working in the
garden or coming in from fishing. Since the "utilities" side of the house
(with the shower, plus nearby well pump, central air conditioners, etc.) is
behind a 6' concrete block and tile wall privacy is not a problem.)

With this experience, during any future renovation I'd consider another hot
water tank, perhaps a low-boy unit or attic unit, for almost-instant hot
water for one or more of the other bedroom suites -- Regards --