Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet

AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YMMV of course, and will highly depend on how many people are in your house and how you use hot water, but a 50 gallon heat pump water heater easily supplies a dishwasher and two long showers with 1/3 of a tank of available water left in our house (and I take pretty hot showers that are not always as short as they should be). Sure, it takes an hour or two to fully recover but we aren’t ever looking to use much more hot water at one time. If you have a household of four, it may be a bit more of a problem, but then you can easily schedule other hot water uses to happen “off peak” like a dishwasher.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I need to adjust the way I think about such things. As my kids go away to college, I no longer need such a continuous supply

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    • Jazsta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The recovery time, aka first hour rating, should be in the specs for the models to find one that suits your needs. There’s more detailed research on them available as well if you’re so inclined.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure, I know the info will be there. But someone genetically selling the idea needs to address it at least mention the impediment. I’m not to the point of wasting my time trying to find the details so the pitch is a failure

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• alienzx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a pool with a new 80 gallon heat pump. This past summer, 3 full families took hot showers before the water became warm and not hot.

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