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Matt writes:
* Your hot water will get used up more quickly if there are
periods of the day when you're using a lot of hot water.

While I agree with most of your points on hot water.. will it really?
I mean since it's not heating it nearly as hot could it actually get it
"hot" quicker as there isn't as much overhead?
......

We've got a 40-gallon tank. I'm hoping that it wears out and we have
to replace it before two of my four kids get old enough to decide they
need to shower every morning like I do :-).

Been reading these last posts with a certain rueful amusement -
Mondday morning, I chose to take a bath instead of the usual shower, and
found the hot water temperature was only just warm.
Obviously, the electric heating element had gone west.
But - I had been taking showers daily and hadn't noticed, because the
ambient heat in the garage had been heating the water in the tank there to
sufficient for a shower. Well, this is texas in the summer, I guess.

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Ian