BrokeFarmerJohn
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Thinking about replacing my hot water tank, my current tank is a 40g, it's a Rheem offbrand and says it uses $503 per year average.
My tank works just fine, this is solely for energy efficiency.
The unit that caught my eye was this
Rheem Performance Performance Platinum 5 -Gal. Hybrid Electric Tank Water Heater—High Efficiency, Mobile Alert Compatible and 1 -Yr Wty XE5 T1 HD5 U at The Home Depot - Mobile
By my estimates based on average usage, it will take a bit over 4 years to pay itself off at that price, I will be ordering a tank threw a supply house at a much cheaper rate for the same product.
That being said what are your guys thoughts? Worth fooling with?
Basically my current uses for hot water are showers and faucets, I buy tide cold water and have been happy with how cloths come out not to use hot water in the Maytag front load washer.
If I can buy a tank that will pay itself off in let's say 4 years or less and efficiently works for 10-15 years, I feel that's worth doing.
My current water set up is city water, I have a whole house carbon wrapped 10in filter off the main. I put in a CSI duel tank water softener last year, it runs threw that and goes into the hot water heater. So the tank should last a long time with minimal limescale.
Also I will be converting the furnace to a high efficiency 92% I believe natural gas furnace and keeping the heatpump, that will run off my Honeywell 8000 series Tstat with a wired outdoor sensor, I want to set it to just run emergency heat under 32 degrees. I could also convert the hot water tank to natural gas if I wanted but I feel that would be more effort than it's worth.
I will be doing all this myself so my cost is only supplies.
My tank works just fine, this is solely for energy efficiency.
The unit that caught my eye was this
Rheem Performance Performance Platinum 5 -Gal. Hybrid Electric Tank Water Heater—High Efficiency, Mobile Alert Compatible and 1 -Yr Wty XE5 T1 HD5 U at The Home Depot - Mobile
By my estimates based on average usage, it will take a bit over 4 years to pay itself off at that price, I will be ordering a tank threw a supply house at a much cheaper rate for the same product.
That being said what are your guys thoughts? Worth fooling with?
Basically my current uses for hot water are showers and faucets, I buy tide cold water and have been happy with how cloths come out not to use hot water in the Maytag front load washer.
If I can buy a tank that will pay itself off in let's say 4 years or less and efficiently works for 10-15 years, I feel that's worth doing.
My current water set up is city water, I have a whole house carbon wrapped 10in filter off the main. I put in a CSI duel tank water softener last year, it runs threw that and goes into the hot water heater. So the tank should last a long time with minimal limescale.
Also I will be converting the furnace to a high efficiency 92% I believe natural gas furnace and keeping the heatpump, that will run off my Honeywell 8000 series Tstat with a wired outdoor sensor, I want to set it to just run emergency heat under 32 degrees. I could also convert the hot water tank to natural gas if I wanted but I feel that would be more effort than it's worth.
I will be doing all this myself so my cost is only supplies.