Comment on Wasting water with tankless heater

• crozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, the shower has no exposed plumbing and the gas line is back near the ground floor heater.

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  • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a shower in the US (assuming you’re in the US) without access to the plumbing somewhere, I’m sure they probably exist somewhere, but it’s not common in my experience, usually there’s a little access panel on the other side of the wall somewhere, maybe hidden in a closet or behind a piece of furniture or something. If there’s not, I’d consider adding one anyway, at some point if you’re there long enough you’re probably going to want access to it for some issue or project that comes up down the line.

    They make small tankless electric water heaters that run off of regular 110V outlets for heating a single sink or shower, if there’s convenient electrical nearby you may be able to just hook one of those up.

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    • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is not my experience at all. I haven’t had a single house where the plumbing was accessible

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    • falsem@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Living in the US I've never seen what you're describing

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      • SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What part? Most houses I’ve seen in the Northeast either have some kind of access panel, or the shower is backed by a closet in another room where you could cut in if you needed to.

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The house I purchased is the first time I’ve ever even seen access to shower pipes. I’ve got an access panel in my closet to a space above the garage that has access to the ones for the guest bath. I’m pretty sure it’s not intentional either since the space goes to the master bath as well yet the shower is set up in a way that doesn’t have access.

      In my experience you usually have to tear out parts of a wall to access shower/tub plumbing. Definitely seems dumb now that someone pointed it out.

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cheapskate subdivision builders commonly build on concrete slabs anymore with no way to access plumbing.

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      • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Building on a concrete slab doesn’t exactly make a difference when I’m talking about an access panel in a wall though

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah it never goes through the attic.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never seen that. Always gotta break open dry wall for that kinda work.

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  • SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ll have to relocate the heater closer to the shower. You can have someone run the gas line to the new location. That’s about all you can do.

    You could insulate the hot water pipe, but that will only help when the water in the pipe is already hot, like if someone showered earlier. It only extends the time the water already in the pipe remains hot.

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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They could install a small - around 2 gallon - electric water heater near the shower. I have a similar problem in my kitchen and it was solved quite cheaply by putting one of those under the sink.

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