Cob: Tankless water heaters

[Patrick Newberry]

Hey everyone, 

I'm in the process of putting together my bathroom and thought a 
tankless/on demand water heater might be the way to go. Cool, I'll just 
surf the net and get everything I needed to know. Well.... not quite in 
fact it might have resulted in a bit of  information overload. 

It seems there are a lot of options and a lots of prices. Now as most 
folks I'm looking for the best option at the cheapest price. As the 
African saying goes, "Experience is the best teacher", I'll ask as 
anyone here used one of these babies? Any recomendations for the best 
bargain?  

Oh yea, one thing is that my well water can be a bit colder than tap 
water from a city system. It seems that they can only heat the water up 
by a certain number of degrees. 

It seems the technical things to consider are what gallon rate is used 
by a shower?  (we'll have a washer on the same heater but won't run 
them at the same time).

Oh yea the reason I'm looking at the electric ones is because we 
already have electricity and if I got a propane one then I'd have to get 
a propane tank and all that and right now I'm looking at trying to get 
in before winter and have a whoooooole lot left to obtain before I can 
get in the house.

Pat
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