On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:20:17 -0400, BenignBodger
wrote:

On 9/23/2014 3:12 AM, micky wrote:
Itsy bitsy tankless water heater?

I saw a thread a while back about tankless water heaters.

How about this?. I only want to heat the hot water for one sink, in
the bathroom. I haven't the patience to wait until it's hot so I
always wash my hands or my face with cold water.

I don't mind wasting money for once, though I plan to install it myself.

So what sort of electric tankless water heater would you recommend for
one sink?. I hope it won't need more than 15 amps.

How many gallons a minute of hot water does a bathroom sink use?

Favorite brands?


(The shower/tub in the same bathroom, the other 1.5 baths, the washing
machine, the kitchen sink, and the laundry sink can just wait until the
water gets hot, like they do now. My half-bath/powder room off the
front hall is directly above the water heater, and it is such a pleasure
to have hot water almost immediately.)

Thanks.


Go to Amazon and look at "Bosch GL2.5 Ariston 2-1/2-Gallon Point-of-Use
Indoor Electric Mini-Tank Water Heater". Or you could just install one of
the automatic circulation pumps to make sure that hot water is always there
when needed but to make this effective, the hot water line really needs to
be insulated.

One of the first things I did when I moved in was insultate the hot
water line, but I could only get to the part in the basement. The 15
feet or so going up and across were beyond my reach.

And what I did accomplished nothing. I'll wash up at the sink once in
the morning. Then 4 or 8 hours later, lunch or dinner (and probably not
lunch since even when home, I normally have no reason go upstairs) no
matter how well insulated the pipe, the water will still be room
temperature

Then maybe 4 hours after dinner, I take a bath. The bath faucet is big
enough so that it takes less time, or for some other reason, I don't
mind waiting for the bath or shower, water to turn hot.