Im adding a bathroom onto my house 17 x 7 approx - what do you do about energy calculations on plans ?
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My guess is you will probably need two ceiling fans...especially if you choose this model.
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I don't know. Not a question for here. Who drew up your plans for the permit? Them. or ask them.
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It was for an existing bathroom, however, I had it completely gutted and re-done with new cabinetry, sink, flooring, hardware etc. Hope this helps.
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UHM Are you sure you need that much power in 1 month? I use 300kWh at most at my house. Assuming you mean average over a year and not 2,400kWh worse case, you would need around a 25kW array. This also assumes the system is facing south and not obstructed by trees. This is a large system and you would need 174 panels. Typically a residence has around a 5kW array so yours would be 5 times larger.
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Not much at all. I use a portion of my bedroom - an open space of about 5 ft by 10 ft.
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Bob, If venting just a enclosed toilet 80 CFM would be fine, But if your venting a standard 3 piece bathroom install a 110 CFM fan. Jetted tubs in Master baths I would recommend 150 CFM+ [pending size of room] and install a dehumidistat or timer to better control humidity. Hot tubs require twice the CFM for proper ventilation. My two cents!!!!!MarkInnovative HVAC Systems, Inc.
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Actually, I have found the opposite to be true. I cannot say it is a drastic savings, but I know factually -- my natural gas bill has ebbed down. Moreover, my water usage has also dropped -- substantially. Just an observation though: don't install it in the master bath if you are a "light" sleeper.
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Calculate the square footage of the area you're trying to cover. Allow a little extra for mistakes and practice.
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HannaECO 18 would not work for your need because of the number of bathroom, you could go with ECO 27(3 gallon per minute) but before purchasing talk to electrician if you could have enough electricity to provide for the unit: The ECO 27 requires a minimum 200 amp panel for installation with (3) 40 amp double pole breakers connected to (3) sets of #8 awg wire. Hope this helps
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Yes it would be fine for you. I have a two story house at 2300 sq feet with 3 full bathrooms and we love it. We can have two showers going at the same time with no problems. Just make sure your gas line feeding the takagi is big enough. I ran a 1" line to supply it. Also make sure you use a water softener/filter if you have hard or dirty water. Good luck!! Oh yea, you also need to be sure tour gas meter can handle the takagi along with everything else running gas in the house at the same time. I was lucky, my meter can handle over 350,000 BTU's
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We just had our hung today. We kept it up high enough for four towels to on the bottom portion and tw0 on the top partition. Because of it's width the towels needed to be triple folded. The towel warmer is not suppose to use much electricity. The bars are nice a warm even the uprights. We did have ours hard wired to the electric. I can let you know better tomorrow how well they work. We don't intend to turn it off unless we are away.John
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If you don't use everything all at once. Mine runs one bath, kitchen and laundry, I have a small unit for second bath. One thing to check out first would be the electrical power required and it's availability. Requires three double 40 amp breakers and heavier gauge wire to carry the power. I took out a 40 gallon electric water heater and it has saved me about $60 a month so I would not go back. As energy prices get higher I save more. As with everything some common sense in using it should be observed, I love mine.
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Yes, that is where I use mine. Perfect size for a medium size bathroom. If it is bumped over it automatically shuts off, which has happened a few times. Very happy with mine.
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Just an opinion here, Kindle Customer; If I were you and had 'that' kind of money I'd get kit anyway and 'go solar' for just part of the house--part of the kitchen comes to mind. Right off the top of my head I'd have somebody wire up the hot water heater, fridge, and maybe a light. Check the wattage for all three and see how it matches up. Plan B would be to wire up a window air conditioner. Futher, you need to remember solar panels work best with batteries hooked up to them.
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We keep ours in our bedroom which is 16 x 20. The unit is wonderful. There is also a small bath and a large dressing area that it keeps cool. I suppose cooling 4 rooms would be a hard configuration to cool, our unit is next to the window for venting and it is aimed down the hall of the room. We can feel it in the hall but I don't think it would cool the room next to the bedroom, too many corners.
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Use a Luggable Loo in ours. If you get one or two of those interlocking foam pads for standing on, it also make a great shower tent.
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I had a contractor do it; all told, it took him a couple of hours, I think. You need a lot of room under sink; it's a lot of stuff.
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Thanks for the reply. I thought about the basement but unless it has an 8 foot plus ceiling it would be awfully tight. In the end I decided daylight was more important and worked out how to keep it warm. If we had a garage then I would have put there since you could open the door for daylight, probably would have still put in a heat pump for it if the garage was unheated.