To tankless or not to tankless? That is the question! How’s it going? Welcome to another episode! We want to talk to you about tankless water heaters, and our thoughts on them. We’ve had one. The reason we wanted to do this is we get questions often. I had done an install video and people ask us about our tankless water heater. And we wanted to give you the information after we have lived with one for the last year, and just our thoughts, and help you decide if you want one or if you should get one because we don’t think they’re for everybody. But we have thoroughly enjoyed ours. So let’s go ahead and dive into that.
Would we do it again? Absolutely! Without a doubt, we would definitely purchase another one for me. I love it. It’s been so much better for me just to have the tankless water heater. So let’s dive right into that.
What are the pros and cons of the water heater? The best thing about the tankless water heater is, for me, the endless shower. You can have hot water the entire time you’re showering. So we’re hooked up to full hookups. We don’t have to worry about how much water we’re using. I like being able to take a shower and feel like I’m not having to rush, or to do those submarine showers, or Boy Scout showers, whatever they’re called. So we live in submarine. Practically yes. I think that’s a great point because it’s not like you take forever showers but I think the key point to this is you don’t have to race the end of your hot water coming to you. You do not have to jump in, turn off the water, lather up, you know. Just take a shower because we’re living in this full-time. If you’re just using it as a camping tool, you may not care about that. But we live in this full-time as a family of four: myself, my wife, Eli, and Matt, our two sons. So that’s kind of a big deal to us to be able to feel more like a home and less like camping. I don’t want to feel like I’m camping all the time. An occasional trip which we’re going out to go camping – totally fine with that. Living in a trailer, don’t want to feel like I’m camping.
You can install it anywhere. Although its focus is for the outdoor, you can also fix it in your bathroom if you need it. The unit comes with a compact size with the folding handle which eases you to mount and install it anywhere you need. With the friendly design, it will help you a lot when installing it for outdoors. The users will have peace of mind since the unit comes with the best safety. The heater is equipped with a flame failure device, anti-freezing protection, as well as oxygen depletion safety. So, when there’s a risk of flame, the device will shut down by itself, allowing you to take time to configure it out. With the low pressure, it can deliver 1.32 gallons per minute. That means the heater can maximize the hot water output without wasting your water. With such energy saving technology, you can save hundreds, even thousands of bucks on an annual basis. You can easily install it anywhere and get instant hot water for you and your family. You don’t need to uninstall it to use the cold water. If you want to enjoy a cold shower, you need to turn off the gas. You can quickly change the temperature until you find the right one for you. Depending on where you locate the tankless water heater, the unit can provide the sustaining heat for you. That means you could use it in many different scenarios like camping, touring, and so on. Turning it on and off is very easy with a tip of the finger. The moment it starts, the water will flow fast. You don’t need to wait until the water is heated. You could use any similar head and hose for different experiences.
Some users reported that the temperature could be lower in the colder months. But in warmer months, the water can get boiling. The trick is on the adjustment temperature. You can, by all means, make the temperature higher when it is colder this month.
So there was just some luxury things that we wanted to do. This one was pretty high on your list. You don’t really care about taking a longer shower. One thing that we like is the recovery time. There is no recovery time. If you have propane, you have hot water. So we can get all four of us back to back through that shower quickly, and we can get out the door in the morning, if we’re going to something. We don’t have to worry about the water heater recovering in between, or doing dishes, or whatever. We just use the hot water when we want to use the hot water. And it’s there! Even if we had a larger family, we would still to get everybody into a shower in the morning and not have to worry about it. So another pro to the water heater is being able to set your water temperature. And there’s going to be a pro and a con later on. But I’m not contradicting myself but I didn’t realize that I was going to enjoy being able to set the temperature for the hot water. If I want to take a 106 degree shower, then I just set it there. Or if it’s a hot summer day and I want to take something cooler, I adjust the temperature for that too. So I think that’s in the Pro column but for some people it might be a con. I just go in there and I just turn on the hot water. I don’t add any cold water. When it does that to a temperature that feels comfortable. It’s really easy, and if you’re in there, and it’s like oh it’s too hot you can ask whoever’s out of the shower, you know, like hey bump it down two or three degrees for me, please. And it just adjusts, no problem. Let’s slide right into our cons because some people might think that that’s a pain, or you get in there and it’s at the wrong temperature. Somebody took a colder one, whatever… But let’s get into the cons. The cons might be that I’ve heard some people complain that it uses way more propane than their current set up, and for us it’s not a big deal! I mean we’ve been going on over couple of months and we cook in our trailer all the time on propane. We don’t have a microwave, so everything we cook is usually on propane. If we wanted to save propane, we could save it there. But multiple meals a day usually breakfast, dinner, sometimes lunch, so a minimum of two meals a day getting made through propane. We do consume quite a bit and we take multiple showers between all of us doing dishes. We use a lot of hot water. We’re not going through a lot with only 230 pound tanks. I think that’s great. We’re going to go fill up here soon, and it’s going to be like 16 bucks to fill up for propane. And it’ll last us – it’s summer right now, we’re not using it for heater right now – at least two months, possibly even into the third month. The tankless water heater comes with a bunch of high-profile protection which is beneficial for the whole family. They are flame failure device, anti-freezing protection, as well as overheating protection. With these features, you can rest assured that your family will be safe all the time. The plug also comes with an anti-freezing drain. You can use it for high water temperature too. It gives the protection over 167 degrees Fahrenheit. Unlike the older tankless water heater models, it will shut off the gas supply when the risks of flaming out higher. But that won’t be likely to happen. The model of the heater is compact and lightweight. Thanks to these characteristics, you will easily carry it anywhere you want to go. It can provide a convenient hot shower when you are sleeping over, camping, watching the sunset at the beach, and many other kinds of outdoor. You can also use it for your pets bathing. The mounting process is too easy, and it will only take a minute or two to install it. As we know, space is the concern of modern folks. With this tankless heater, it is no longer a problem. You can put it anywhere you want without wasting your space. With this fantastic heater, you can get an enormous supply of water anywhere you want. With modern technology, you don’t need to wait to heat the water. As soon as you turn on the tap, the water will flow without any hassle. The users will have the freedom to adjust the heat and water flow. The tankless water heater from GASLAND claims to come with 11.5% energy saving technology. Not only saving the space of yours but also the energy you use for the water heater. The key lies in the specially designed main burner which comes with high-profile combustion technology. The burner can use the gas effectively with maximum output. The gas will be consumed well. In the end, you will save a lot of money when using GASLAND tankless water heater. GASLAND offers 1-year warranty of 100% money back. It comes with the CSA-approved gas regulators and adapters. The warranty covers the replacement and the after-sales service during the period of warranty.
There have been some reports that the unit stayed when it got rained on. To prevent this from happening, it is a great idea to make a roof over the group when it rains.
It is a con for some people. A lot of the water heaters that come in your rig in your unit are a combination electric and propane. If you typically use it on electric, you’re obviously can be using more propane because you’re going to be now on propane with a tankless water heater. I think the biggest drawback to the water heater for me is the delay in time to get your hot water. When you go to turn on the faucet, there’s always going to be a delay getting that hot water from your unit, whether it’s tankless or tanked, – unless you have a point of views right at the sink – to your fixture. So there’s going to be that delay depending on how far your piping is. That’s just physics. I mean that’s going to happen. But the tankless water heater has to know to turn on. That’s usually around 3 to 5 seconds. It sees that you’ve turned it on, and now there’s a water flow, water flow kick on producing hot water. So you’re going to get a three to five second delay which isn’t really a pain. But the area that it I think it shows most is when your boondocking, and you want to conserve water, so you’re going to be taking super short showers. And if you do that Boy Scout shower, or submarine shower, or whatever you call it, you turn on the water, you lather up, so you’ve turned it off in that time. When you turn it back on, you’re going to get some lukewarm water before the hot water comes again. That’s going to happen. But for us it’s not a deal breaker, for some – it might be. If that’s a deal breaker for you, we do not recommend you getting a tankless water heater. Then I think the last con would be having to set your own temperature. This is going to get to the use of the unit. This is our recommendation. We didn’t get this from the manufacturer, from anybody. this isn’t sponsored in any way. But for some people, they don’t want a hassle figuring out what temperature they want their shower at before they get in there. They just want to turn on the hot, turn on the cold. You just want to mix to whatever you’re used to mixing in at home and have it be the same on a trailer. But I think people need to understand that this is not a tank water heater, and you can’t use it exactly the same way. So if you’re going to do it, you need to set that temperature. And the reason why – if you just crank that water heater up to 120 degrees, and you hop in the shower, and it’s like man it’s scalding, and then you turn on too much cold water and then it deprives the amount of water going to your water But if you know how to set the temperature of water, they’re really close. Lately I’ve been adding some cold water in middle of summer, and it’s hot, and sometimes I want a little bit colder shower than I had, you can you can put in a little cold water but you don’t want to go overboard. It’s a very small adjustment. They don’t barely add any and then you can feel good or oh it needs a little bit more. But the other thing that I was going to mention is sometimes your water coming into your rig is a little bit warmer than what it normally would be. Maybe if it was in the middle of summer right now, our hose coming in it sits in the sun for a little bit, and so you have to let that cold water kind of go through first and then turn on the hot water. And it totally is adjusted to where you have it set. One other time we’ve had that happen, where the water coming into the trailer was warmer, and it got it felt really warm. It was like summertime and the water tank for the RV park was sitting outside in the Sun. And it would bake and warm up. It is the best you would get warm water in your rig, even though you only had cold water on. When the water heater kicks on, it’s kicking it on above what you’re setting was. So that was probably the biggest pain that we’ve had with it and trying to go through those adjustments and settings. There are a few things you can do but that’s a rare circumstance that we’ve run into. That’s once or twice. That were our thoughts. I love it. I would do it again in a heartbeat for sure. If you’re convinced that I would like to have a tankless water, here we have the Girard. It is not that it’s the only one out there. But we’re going to put a link in the description to that one, and down in there to the Amazon link so check that out if you want it. And you have to buy the door separate too. So there’ll be a link to the water heater unit and the door associated with it to be able to install into your own rig. I mean it fits right into the existing. You know, usually the six or ten gallon water heaters that come in RV. It is pretty easy install. I think that will do it for us today. And I hope you have a great day and we will hopefully see you on the road.
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heater. And when the water flow is not meeting the required flow to turn on ,it’s just going to completely shut off it. When it completely shuts off. Then you’re messing with the hot and cold, and all of a sudden it’s scalding again, and then it’s freezing and scalding. And so I can see why people get very frustrated with it. But I think that the problem is it’s typically user error, not understanding how to use it right. I think that’s a huge, huge part of it.