Large cost, small gain. Overall, a pain in the gas. And only
for a couple months a year. Not much return.

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Christopher A. Young
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"Stormin Mormon" wrote
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As the othe fine person inquired, do you have propane or
natural gas? Either of those is much less expensive for
heat. My sense is that you should leave the 40 gal tank
until it leaks, and then retrofit for a 40 gal gas water
heater.

Considering the cost of the heater, and the upgrade, and
the
plumber, you're really spending a boat load of money for
very little storage space. You could buy an outdoor
Rubbermaid storage shed and a padlock, and have a bit of
money left over.

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Christopher A. Young
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Agree that the current service capacity rules out
electric tankless. The other option would be gas,
but if space savings is the main attraction, agree with
the above, that it's an expensive way to get a very
small space.
And depending on how a gas unit gets vented,
where it is, running gas pipes to it, etc, you may not
have any usable space anyway.