Comments on: Adding another mini-tank water heater http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/ Fri, 11 May 2012 20:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tad Coutino http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-1531 Tad Coutino Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:36:46 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-1531 Hello! I've been following your website for a while now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted to mention keep up the great work! Hello! I’ve been following your website for a while now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted to mention keep up the great work!

]]> By: jo http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-366 jo Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:58:00 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-366 I have to laugh! We moved into a new home, replaced old furnaces with high efficiency ones, tore out three big old water heaters and installed a Takagi tankless (all ourselves). Since we do dishes by hand, and turn off the shower while soaping up, it became clear (and cold) very quickly that this would not work for our lifestyle. The Takagi does not keep heating water unless you have a .6 gallon or higher GPM, which I never have while rinsing dishes. So we ended up buying a 6 gallon electric water heater, which we use only as a holding tank. It is plumbed so that when the thermostat in the neutered electric holding tank goes below a certain point, a pump turns on that runs the water in the holding tank back through the tankless at a high enough flow to cause the tankless to turn on. This heats up the holding tank high enough to keep a steady flow of hot water when it is run through a mixing valve. The entire system is then further complicated by having a segment that goes off to heat one room of the house that they installed radiators in, and which was heated by the third hot water heater. The copper pipe, valves and gauges in the furnace room would make NASA jealous! I have to laugh! We moved into a new home, replaced old furnaces with high efficiency ones, tore out three big old water heaters and installed a Takagi tankless (all ourselves). Since we do dishes by hand, and turn off the shower while soaping up, it became clear (and cold) very quickly that this would not work for our lifestyle. The Takagi does not keep heating water unless you have a .6 gallon or higher GPM, which I never have while rinsing dishes. So we ended up buying a 6 gallon electric water heater, which we use only as a holding tank. It is plumbed so that when the thermostat in the neutered electric holding tank goes below a certain point, a pump turns on that runs the water in the holding tank back through the tankless at a high enough flow to cause the tankless to turn on. This heats up the holding tank high enough to keep a steady flow of hot water when it is run through a mixing valve. The entire system is then further complicated by having a segment that goes off to heat one room of the house that they installed radiators in, and which was heated by the third hot water heater. The copper pipe, valves and gauges in the furnace room would make NASA jealous!

]]> By: cavalli http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-59 cavalli Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:31:52 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-59 pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =) pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =)

]]> By: virgilio http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-58 virgilio Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:00:44 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-58 Great site! Good luck to it's owner! Great site! Good luck to it’s owner!

]]> By: stephanie http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-56 stephanie Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:25:54 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-56 Je ne parle pas Francais (eh... seulement en peu) mais, merci beaucoup pour visitez-nous a "bungalowinanity.com." :-) Did I just butcher the French language? If so, I apologize. It's been a long time since I've had to conjugate French verbs! Je ne parle pas Francais (eh… seulement en peu) mais, merci beaucoup pour visitez-nous a “bungalowinanity.com.” :-)

Did I just butcher the French language? If so, I apologize. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to conjugate French verbs!

]]> By: carburatore http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-55 carburatore Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:41:13 +0000 http://bungalowinsanity.com/2007/02/08/adding-another-mini-tank-water-heater/#comment-55 L'information interessante que vous avez! I'am allant revenir bientot. L’information interessante que vous avez! I’am allant revenir bientot.

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