"Harry Everhart" wrote in message
Currently there are two 50 gallon electric water heaters
- one on each end of the home.

Very expensive.

Here is the funny part - the water heater right next to the bathrooms
- does not service the bathrooms - only the clothes washer.

You are paying to keep that water hot all the time, but probably only do
laundry a few hours a week. Very espensive situation. An on demand unit
would be good for that.

The water
heater near the kitchen serves the kitchen and the two bathrooms sixty
feet away. Of course the pipes are in the concrete slab.
Whenever you take a shower - it takes the hot water from the kitchen
water heater forever to get to the showers wasting time - water - and
energy.

You can use the circulator pump, but that is an expensive option.


I have 4 options -
1. Replace the electric water heaters with gas ones - the city gives you
a $450 credit for each electric water heater you swap out.


That is the minimum to do.

2. Buy two on-demand electric water heaters and put one in a bathroom
and one in the kitchen.
3. I can run copper pipes overhead and try to get hot water from the
laundry to the bathrooms.

Talk to someone that knows more about on-demand. Maybe three is the way to
go.

4. Just leave it the way it is - both water heaters work fine - but it
take about three minutes for the shower to get hot.
Harry

But it is costly the way it is, plus uncomfortable. Worth fixing. .
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Ed
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