Who has a tankless hot water heater?

[The Bad Guy]

I'm in the market for one and wanted to solicit opinions from who has them and what models they have?

My contractor is going to purchase one and I've read reviews, but wanted some first-hand info from people on here.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[R8ers]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Both propane and natural gas have an odor additive (usually Mercaptan).

If you have a gas leak in your house, you risk explosion whether you have natural gas or propane, because neither can escape.

And I've never seen an installation of a propane tank INDOORS. They're usually installed at least 50 feet from any dwelling.

I'm not an expert by any means but my dad worked for the LP company for 30-some years.

I am not either, I was told this when I was making a delivery one day to the trans continental pipeline in Lexington NC

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by R8ers

If you have a propane leak the gas sinks to the floor and stays there risking an explosion, Natural gas is lighter than air and escapes to the atmosphere.


That is why they add the smell to propane, that pungent odor is an added smell, propane has hardly any smell otherwise.

Question: since it's an added smell why does it have to smell like a combination of eggs and 80 year old man farts?...

[R8ers]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Question: since it's an added smell why does it have to smell like a combination of eggs and 80 year old man farts?...

To make you not ignore it...

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by R8ers

To make you not ignore it...

If that's the point make it smell like a combination of the McRibb and pu$$y...

[R8ers]

Originally Posted by Rausch

If that's the point make it smell like a combination of the McRibb and pu$$y...

People may cut the line just to smell it then

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by R8ers

People may cut the line just to smell it then

I'm not getting out of bed at 3 am for 80 year old man farts.

You offer me pu$$y and a McRib and I'll be ****ing Lassie pulling out family members with my teeth...

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by R8ers

To make you not ignore it...

This reminds me of a story...

A few years ago, when my wife was pregnant with our oldest daughter, we were living in a tiny starter house in a great neighborhood. There was a "should have been condemned if it wasn't owned by a city councilman" rental property to our east and the house actually sat only 6 inches from the property line.

I had to tell the mongoloids next door at least 6 times to stop throwing their seeds in my yard so I didn't have to mow over their ditch weed. They would get high and saw apart vehicles.

At one point, they embarked on a project to transform a late model conversion van into a flatbed truck. Even though they knocked out the body work pretty fast, the couldn't keep the thing running, so they parked it next to their house - technically on my property.

So I asked them to move it. They said they would but left it sitting there for like 2 more weeks, just long enough for us to get a foot of snow and drift the damn thing in.

One Friday night, while we were getting ready to go out for dinner, I could hear them out there firing up that van and trying to get it moved. I looked out the window and it looked like they had shoveled exactly no snow - they were just gunning it and hoping to jar it loose.

As we were leaving, we walked out the door and I could smell gas - ALOT of gas. I told the wife to go back inside and proceeded to walk over to the neighbors since I could see them standing in front of the van staring at the house.

When I arrived, I was overwhelmed with the stupiditiy. The van had indeed gotten unstuck - it lurched forward and ripped the gas line and regulator clean off the house. Both of the morons were standing there staring at the open pipe as it sprayed at gas, their jaws slack, and one of them was SMOKING A CIGARETTE. The other one turned to me and said "if I call the gas company, do you think they'll come this late on a Friday night?"

[R8ers]

what a bunch of dumbasses