Electric tankless option ?
I have been pumping water out of my basment for about a week now, I’ve been told that it’s rain comming in through the wall, but I thik I sprung a leak in my tank, I’m clutterd around the tank at the moment, can olny get to the controls, but I’m correcting that today, if I find I have sprung a leak I’m considering going tankless, it would be electric, my question is, would tankless be cheaper to operate than a regular tank, there are only 2 of us here, and I don’t forsee that changing anytime soon, I’ve been trying to guesstimate how often it would need to come on each day to provide us hot water, if were not doing laundry that day I’m guessing around an hour a day, wich is a lot less that the current 6 hours each night our tank runs to heat up, our current tank is a 120 gallon tank that we got from AEP 13 years ago.
Any info would be appreciated.
Probably not.
However, a 120 gallon water heater is a HUGE water heater for a residence. Unless you are washing dishes or clothes immediately before or after taking a long hot shower you can easily get by with an approximately 60 gallon heater.
The electric water heaters of today have far better insulation than the ones of twenty years ago. They have extremely low “standby” losses. They only use electricity when actually heating the water and if you use no hot water they will stay hot for days without using any electricity.
