On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:22:22 -0600, Jules
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:45:08 -0600, krw wrote:

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:25:17 -0600, Jules
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:01 -0600, Leon wrote:
"hot" water heater? I only need a "water heater". ;!) Iknow, I know, it
reheats relatively hot water, but would a hot water heater work if it were
full of cold water?

Define "cold". My water comes out of the ground at a pretty much constant
55 degrees year-round, and that's considerably hotter than freezing ;-)

Mine sure doesn't. There is a big change in the shower handle
position between summer and winter. When I lived in VT we were lucky
it came out liquid in the winter. ;-) The frost line often went down
7' and not all water lines did.

Yeah, that'd do it, I suppose. Our line's around 7-8' down and only goes
maybe 30' out to the well. Temp seems to stay pretty constant
year-round.

Because you're on a deep well not because the lines are down' 7-8'.
The ground temperature isn't constant (in northern climes) even 20'
down. OTOH, at 400', and in the water table, it will be fairly
constant. ;-)