Tankless Water Heaters

Does anyone have experience with using tankless hot water heaters, like this one, in a residential application? My house has 3 bathrooms, one of which has a 100 gallon soaking tub that is filled with a high flow rate (12 gpm) faucet. http://www.takagi.com/products/tankless-water-heaters/t-m50-n “The T-M50 Series, specifically designed for heavy-duty applications, is the largest Takagi tankless heater yet, and the most powerful (14.5 GPM max) in the tankless industry! The T-M50 Series is suitable for commercial applications (hotels, restaurants, government, convalescent homes, etc.) that require high demand and the most durable of heaters. Along with HRS35 copper alloy, the T-M50 Series is the only commercial unit in the industry that offers a “dual-combustion system,” providing redundancy for added reliability”

randolph

in Heating 9 years and 7 months ago

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eman134 | 9 years and 7 months ago

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As the other posters said…this a unit usually installed in a restaurant or similar high use location. Unless you have an appropriate gas service and meter bar you would need a dig up and new service to even think about installing the unit

randolph | 9 years and 7 months ago

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thanks for the info

Master Plvmber | 9 years and 7 months ago

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You probably haven’t got the gas meter to supply that heater and you probably don’t have the clearance from doors and windows to vent it through a side wall. So, you’ll have to vent it to the roof but you can’t use the chimney for that because it’s being used by something else. https://heatinghelp.com/heating-museum/tankless-water-heaters/

cmu | 9 years and 7 months ago

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That little beauty takes 380,000 btu, over double what a house boiler uses. Should be easy to install…