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One, Two, Or Many Hot Water Heaters?
Hi Everyone,
My family and I are in the process of renovating a house. As part of that process, I wanted to go full point of use. At minimum, one for each bathroom, one for the kitchen, and one for the clothes washer.
However, my family is telling me that is a waste given the proximity of the bathrooms. The three on the second floor are more or less a "T" shape, and according to them it is virtually impossible that more then handwashing we be done at the same time in all of them. The downstairs bath is a half bath, and the kitchen is immediately behind it-but the sink and the washer/dryer hookups are on the opposite side of the kitchen from that wall.
Their suggestion is to setup two: one to feed the upstairs and one to feed the downstairs.
I'm wondering if, at that point with the potential sizing, if it wouldn't be better to just go ahead and get a single tankless unit large enough for the average demand of, say, clothes washer plus all the sinks plus 1 or two showers and and recirculating pumps.
What would you do?
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