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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Research
in Green Living
Have any of you done any research on tankless water heaters and/or tankless water softeners? Do any of you have either?
Re: Research
I did some. Electric tankless heaters aren't as readily available as gas, so they are very $$$ b/c the technology isn't really there yet. Our utility room (where our current hot water is) isn't piped for gas, so if we wanted a tankless we'd have to have the walls ripped out and pipes put in. We don't want to spend that much money in our non-forever home. Also, apparently gas tankless require large gas inputs, so even if you have a gas water heater now, the pipes might not be large enough to support a tankless. Regardless, the price we were quoted for just the heater (not new pipes) was $3-$5k depending on what model we wanted. The lowest model can produce instant hot water for one appliance at a time, and the higher model you go the more appliances being run at once it can handle, until you get to the top-of-the-line model which provides limitless instant hot water.
So we decided that we'd really like to have a tankless, but that it's not worthwhile until we're in our forever home.
I didn't even know they had tankless water softeners....wish I had known about that when we got ours.
Other than that, I've heard they are pricey. Better to look into if you are building or have to replace yours, but not worth it if you are just thinking of upgrading.