We are home from Kauai. Just got in yesterday afternoon. We are exhausted, to say the least from the red-eye flight home. We have been greeted by a leaky water heater. We have know that it was on its last leg for at least a year but have been helping it limp along. It is an electric heater that we purchased with the home. Now we have to get back to reality and get busy drying out carpet and fixing the heater.

Do any of you have an on demand water heater? This is one option that we are seriously considering. It is pretty pricey, as we will have to vent it to the outside, get it hooked up to natural gas, and have a new water softener put in.

The other option for us is to piggy back two gas water heaters which would still involve venting and purchasing a new water softener and getting the heater connected to gas.

We need enough hot water for a family of five. I understand that there is a two appliance max at a time that can run on the heater.

Any advice or opinions?

Thanks...


I'll post pictures later....we took a bunch!