Can A Mini Tankless Water Heater Heat The Whole Water Supply?
Posted on | December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
I live in a house outside the US and there is no hot water heater. Furthermore, I think there is only one water line, ie, the main water supply never branches to two different water lines, hot and cold. My question is this, I was thinking of putting in an electric shower, those mini tankless water heaters that attach directly to the shower, but that would be alot of work. Couldn’t I just attach it directly to the water supply for the house and make the entire house have somewhat warm water, not hot, but not freezing cold showers at night. I don’t want to spend $1000 putting in a normal hot water heater, which would be difficult anyway with the piping issue, nor have the mess of breaking tile and drilling in one single shower. For about $200, can’t I just buy a mini tankless system and plug it in directly, yielding luke warm to warm water for the house?
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December 7th, 2009 @ 8:38 am
when you look at the tank-less heaters it will tell you how many gal per min it will produce it will not do your whole house and it sounds like you only have one line which means you would have to plum your whole house for it which is expensive or you can put it in line at the starting point of the water line and it may give you some worm water through the house but the manufacture probably does not recommend it
December 7th, 2009 @ 6:51 am
No.
I hope this helps!
December 7th, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Not really no! If you want a hot shower and cold water too then you will have to insert a branch on the cold mains inlet pipe and take a feed from that to the electric shower.