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Hot water tanks

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Home Inspector with Safe At Home Inspections,Inc.

Learned some new interesting facts about newly built hot water heaters. Government issued energy saving mandates have reduced expected tank life by up 2/3rds. Thanks to more government meddling you will have to replace your water heater more frequently so you can save 1.5% in energy costs. Does not make any sense unless you make hot water heaters. The steel on these tanks have been reduced in thickness by almost 2/3rds to save energy. Thank you uncle sam for killing the poor homeowner even more. well plumbers will be getting rich along with all the tank mfr. just thought I would let you all know

Later

Jeff

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Alan Pursell
PruCal - San Francisco, CA

Hi Jeff,

This has always been a pet peeve of mine.  If the water's already hot, why heat it?

I like to just refer to these devices as "Water Heaters".

But, better yet, the "point of use" heaters are getting really popular.

They have been used in England for decades.

They actually make more sense.

Maybe the government should check those out.

CHEERS!

 

Jun 27, 2009 08:35 AM