Hi Guys (its still all guys isn't it??),
I am back from my extended vacation and after renting some nice places that could actually produce hot water in the shower for more than 3 minutes (did you know that that was possible??), my wife and I have finally decided to upgrade whatever we need to in order to be able to also have hot showers at home etc.
We heat the house with an oil-fired burner and have had no problems with it, but we also get our hot water right off the furnace...but its not very hot, and it is not hot for very long /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif...
Anyway, looking for recommendations on how to improve this situation.
Basically we could add a stand-along hot water heater (should it be propane or electric or oil??) or else some sort of hybrid system that uses the furnance to do the first heating of the water but then stores hot water in a tank and has an additional heater element to maintain (or improve) the temperature...don't know the details about how it works though.
Any recommedations? Go straight hot water heater? gas or electric? hybrid system? approximate cost of various solutions?
Thanks all!
I am back from my extended vacation and after renting some nice places that could actually produce hot water in the shower for more than 3 minutes (did you know that that was possible??), my wife and I have finally decided to upgrade whatever we need to in order to be able to also have hot showers at home etc.
We heat the house with an oil-fired burner and have had no problems with it, but we also get our hot water right off the furnace...but its not very hot, and it is not hot for very long /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif...
Anyway, looking for recommendations on how to improve this situation.
Basically we could add a stand-along hot water heater (should it be propane or electric or oil??) or else some sort of hybrid system that uses the furnance to do the first heating of the water but then stores hot water in a tank and has an additional heater element to maintain (or improve) the temperature...don't know the details about how it works though.
Any recommedations? Go straight hot water heater? gas or electric? hybrid system? approximate cost of various solutions?
Thanks all!