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wrote:
My wife and I are building a new house and we are going to have the
plumber install two hot water heaters both in our crawl space which is
spacious. One of the heaters will be under the kitchen and service
the kitchen and the adjoining utility room. The other heater will be
at the other end of the house under the master bath room and it will
also supply the guest bath room. My question is this. Can this be
plumbed in a way that will allow the two heaters to feed off each
other and thereby double the capacity of water available at each end?
I can understand how you could put two heaters side by side and
connect them in series and have all of the hot water serviced from the
2nd heater in the series. However, I can't figure out how you can
accomplish the same thing with two heaters that are located at each
end of a house.

The only way I can think of to make this work as you want would
be to set up a cirulating loop between the two tanks. Even that
probably wouldn't work right without some complicated control
systems. It would be cheaper and easier to just get slightly bigger
tanks at each end, or maybe tankless systems as others have
suggested.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.