master plumber mark
Something no one ever mentions about tankless water heaters.....
once you got one, you are stuck.....you are at the mercy of some questionable service man .
Their are not a lot of people that SERVICE tankless units...In my honest opinion..
especially in rural areas ect...
If your unit goes down, this means cold showers till you find someone who
IS QUALIFIED to make repairs to it finally shows up to do the repairs.
If they have the parts great
, if not they have to fed-ex the parts in....
This could mean some pretty evil looks from your wife and kids for up to 14 days+ who knows??
Remember that YOU are the guy that shelled out the BIG MONEY for one of these new fangled tankless hot water heaters, so You get the GLORY or you get the GREIF....
I know of one situation where the wife threatend to go to a hotel till he got
the water heater repaired or replaced. (you dont want this kiind of trouble)
You could also pay dearly to get the reapirs made.....if they can even get the parts.
I would guess that if you are the only repairman for tankless hot water heaters in town, you can name your price.
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I have taken out about 6 units over the past and re-installed normal water heaters just because of the reasons stated above....
the repair costs were too high,
they couldent find anyone to repiar it
the wife threatend the husband with divorce if it was not fixed TODAY!!
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I install between 5 -20 water heaters per week. A mix of gas and electric
Rheem and Bradford white mostly..... Some POWER VENTS too.....
I can repair them all pretty quickly.......literally today..........
But Honestly , I am not qualified to touch a Tankless unit , and I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN HOW EITHER>
I will not touch a tankless unit... I dont want the liability.
I dont need the headaches either......
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Recently we did a new 450k home where the owner insisted on a Tankless unit ..... ok..with me but I BEGGED them NOT TO DO IT!!!
the unit cost them about $1300, and it took a month to show up.
We made the customer sign a waiver that we could not guarantee that it would do the job and we were not responsile to baby sit the unit either.
Basically, if it broke down they were on their own...
so if it took a month for the actual unit to show up,
how long are the repair parts going to take>>>???
what do you see happenning in their future??/
I see a 75 gallon Rheem power vent gas hot water heater for about $1600
So if you feel lucky, go ahead and take that leap of faith....
make my day.