Wisconsin winters here can be brutal. I have no basement, but my pipes under the house are insulated. Hot enough for a decent shower?
1376363
Excellent product. I plumbed into bathroom - on wall next to kitchen. very happy
1376364
Hi, it depends. Keep in mind the heater can only heat water flowing at 1.6 gallon per minute. I have a 3.0 gallon per minute at my house in Southern Ohio and last year when it was 16 below zero (with a basement) the water could only heat to luke warm. I would suggest either a large gallon per minute or have a "back up" source like an electric tank, etc. If your very tolerant and flexible then i think you will be ok
2088122
I had the same concern, it has a thermostat so it only runs when the water temperature is very cold. It also doesn't feel hot even when running. Trust me it will do a great job.
1913042
WaveYou would need to connect hot and cold females to your existing pipes.You don't need an access panel.
1264738
It goes down to 40, but be careful. 40 degrees at the interior location of the thermostat does not guarantee that the basement and pipes in exterior walls will stay above freezing. If you have fixtures on exterior walls, typically kitchen sink, leave the sink base cabinet door open to allow the pipes to be exposed to warmer room air
175028
yes it is pretty good. I push my feet up and back on the bottom. Only neg I found was the water gets cold very fast. I put in hot/warm water but it will not stay heated.
1352279
I'm guessing that you are starting with really cold water. The heater can only raise the temperature up just so much - 40-50 degrees, I don't remember. The trick is to discharge the heated water into your source bucket which heats it up and pretty quick you'll have water coming out of the discharge end way hotter than you'd want to shower in. Hope this helps.
1233999
It gets hot fast. Too hot to shower when on full on. Even during cold weather. Seems much hotter than specs.
1464305
I doubt it. Based on it's amperage I don't think it would be warm enough. I just wash hands...
652465
I would say that that would depend on at least two things. First how cold your water coming into the house is and how far the shower is from the unit. In my Arizona home, the furthest shower is about 50 feet from the unit and the water coming in is about 60 most of the year if not warmer. I turn on the shower and it is hot in less then a minute. I have the unit set at 106 degrees and my electric bill is now less 30%.
2165099
Can't speak to the multi-shower thing, but I can offer this: Shower running, dishwasher going, washing machine churning, sink on...no drop in hot water in the shower. All this in the "dead of winter" in Wisconsin. Hope that helps.
1122789
9.5 gpm, each shower will be about 2.5 gpm, so it can easily handle 3, if all they ran was hot water and you have a typical rise of ~60-70°, and it would still have enough left to run a faucet or dishwasher. But since most people will run a mix of hot and cold, it will be able to handle more in practice (probably about 4 simultaneous showers). As long as your water pressure is good enough.
1736560
No it does not heat. It only pumps the water that you have in your bucket or container. So if you only have cold water that's all you will pump out. That being said it is a very shower if you have warm water.
1479352
Hot/warm water would be nice, but I think it would take a while to get to the right temperature. You would be blasted with cold water for a while in the beginning anyway. I have gotten use to the cold water only and don't see it as a problem.
732248
good point. this will be my first summer using it. it did wonders for the winter. my bedroom and bathroom over the garage hit 80 degrees for the first time since I owned the house. I will definitely keep an eye on the temps this summer. Worst case I should delicately be able to remove the insulation for the summer. Shoot me a message in August. I will let you know if my house burned down. lol
2277152
No idea on colder climates. Can't imagine it would be a problem to run in Boston in winter. We live in NC and had no problem. Our electric bill went up $80-$100/mth. We used it almost nightly though. Great hot tub for the price! Will buy it again for our next house.
1502007
Probably not since there is some output of heat. Probably best to locate it in your basement, (if you have one) below where the sink and dishwasher are and then the heat can circulate freely and dissipate.
1340278
Well, you can and I did, but let me tell you why and give you a cautionary note. In my case, it was a remote bathroom sink. It takes forever for the hot water to get over there. So I put this under the sink with a dedicated 30A circuit, attached to the hot water side. It is however heating cold water, because the water in the hot water pipe coming from the other side of the house is invariably cold. This allows someone to wash their hands with warm/hot water instead of waiting 5 minutes with the water running. You would never need 5 minutes worth of hot water at that sink. Now, what would happen beyond that? Well, if you kept running the water on full hot until the hot water from the house system reached this unit, it would continue to heat the water anyway, resulting in scalding hot water coming out of the tap. So depending on your application, you may want to do it the way I did. Or not.