{"id":633,"date":"2017-01-17T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2017-01-10T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:41:54","slug":"sometimes-a-tank-water-heater-is-the-best-choice-for-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/water-heater-service\/sometimes-a-tank-water-heater-is-the-best-choice-for-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Tank Water Heater Is the Best Choice for Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard about the many advantages of tankless water heaters. In fact, you may have heard about them <a href=\"\/blog\/water-heater-service\/will-a-tankless-water-heater-really-work-for-my-home\/\">directly from us<\/a>. We install, repair, and maintain tankless water heating systems, and we\u2019re big proponents of households making the switch from the conventional storage tank water heater to a tankless system.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s better to say that we\u2019re proponents of households giving serious <em>consideration<\/em> to making the switch. The truth is that tankless water heaters are not always the ideal installation for hot water in a home. There are situations where <a href=\"\/water-heater\/tank\">sticking with a tank water heater<\/a> for a replacement or new install is the optimal choice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Why would I want to stay with a tank water heater?<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s a good question, especially after you hear water heating professionals talk up the benefits of going tankless: reduced energy costs, longer service life, smaller size, and never running out of hot water.<\/p>\n<p>But tankless systems do have a few drawbacks, and in some homes the drawbacks will be enough to make a storage tank water heater the better pick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Expense: <\/strong>A tankless water heater saves money over its service life because it only uses energy when there\u2019s a need for hot water, rather than running regularly to maintain the heat of water in a tank. But tankless water heaters cost more to install than storage tank models\u2014and sometimes this doesn\u2019t fit into a household\u2019s budget.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cLimitless hot water\u201d does have some limits:<\/strong> A tankless water heater is often advertised as providing unlimited hot water, never running out. It\u2019s true that because there\u2019s no stored supply to be depleted\u2014the tankless system heats water as requires\u2014but the water heater can still be overtaxed if multiple hot water taps are on. Homes with a high volume of hot water use can easily push the tankless system past it limits and will need to have more than one installed. These homes will probably do better with a standard storage tank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finding out what type of water heater meets your household needs is as easy as <a href=\"\/contact\/schedule-service\">contacting our office<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ken Neyer Plumbing, Inc. is a full-service plumbing company with the finest plumbers on staff to see to your needs in Cleves, OH and the Greater Cincinnati Area.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tankless water heaters are not always the ideal installation for hot water in a home. There are situations where sticking with a tank water heater for a replacement or new install is the optimal choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[128,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}