Struggling With The Hot Water Heater Decision (Standard vs. Tankless)

Once we purchased the home, the sunroom was simply an enormous, open, and sort of awkward room. I initially thought I might salvage it, however I quickly realized that that wasn’t an possibility as a result of it doesn’t have an acceptable ground. The ground in right here is simply layers of plastic, particle board, extra plastic, and business carpet positioned over concrete that I’m assuming was once a patio. So with the room not having a very good basis, there was no want in spending cash to restore something above that basis.

But it surely was, at the least, a very good non permanent location for washer and dryer hookups, which the home didn’t initially have. And it was a very good non permanent location for a sizzling water heater for the reason that unique location was on the far finish of the storage, as far eliminated because it might have been from all the precise sources of water inside the home. Since all the plumbing needed to be redone anyway to do away with the previous galvanized metal pipes that have been so corroded that they’d solely let a trickle of water by way of, we went forward and had the new water heater moved to a way more centralized location, and the one location obtainable on the time was the nook of the sunroom, which occurs to be simply on the opposite facet of the hallway lavatory. You possibly can see the place the unique window was within the hallway lavatory above the washer and dryer.

Little did I do know that that “non permanent” answer for each of these would final for 12 years. However now, my washer and dryer lastly have a brand new (and far prettier) house in my walk-in closet.

Don’t get me incorrect. The room is crammed to the brim with stuff. But it surely’s nearly all stuff that I can both do away with as a result of I received’t want it anymore (i.e., stuff that got here out of the hallways and visitor bed room), or stuff that may ultimately be relocated to my workshop as soon as I get it organized.

As I stated, the brand new location for the new water heater might be what’s now the hallway lavatory, which is simply on the opposite facet of the wall the place it’s situated now. And that rest room seems like this for now…sort of. That is the latest image I’ve, which I took once I was planning on doing a bit of makeover in right here with new tile, new bathe curtain, and new wallpaper. That makeover by no means absolutely materialized, and in hindsight, I’m so grateful that I didn’t waste money and time on that makeover. I can maintain on to the whole lot I deliberate to make use of in right here (and retailer the quartz countertop) to make use of sooner or later visitor lavatory after we construct the addition.

The one different possibility is that I might plan on an exterior tankless gasoline sizzling water heater. However I’ve given this a lot thought, and I can’t determine the place it will even go. I might have to be a location that’s sort of central to all the plumbing in the home. And, sadly, it will possibly’t go on the again wherever as a result of there might be that interim between tearing down the sunroom and constructing the addition. Clearly, we will’t stay with out sizzling water for an unspecified period of time between after we tear down the sunroom and construct the addition. In order that would go away the facet of the home with the main bedroom and toilet, which is the place the outside condenser unit for our HVAC is situated. It’s additionally the place our exterior electrical panel is situated, in order that is likely to be a problem.

The one different location I can consider can be within the space by the breakfast room home windows, however I don’t love the concept of it being positioned wherever on the entrance of our home, even whether it is in that space that’s set again from the entrance porch and the entrance of my studio.