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Originally Posted by SailinAway
50-gallon water heaters are from the era when we believed that bigger is better and everything in our daily life must be super convenient and always at hand. I don't think we can afford that any more, financially or environmentally. I had a 53-gallon water heater installed only because (a) I didn't want to turn on the oil boiler in the summer to take a shower and (b) I knew that a 10-gallon heater would impact the resale value of the house. I could easily live happily with two gallons of hot water per day, mixed with cold. Surely there is a more efficient way to obtain that than a 24/7 53-gallon water heater! Hence my original post! For the life of me I still don't clearly see the solution in all that has been said in this thread.
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Sounds to me like a perfect example of a tankless on demand system you want. If you don’t want to pay for the expense for this system, shut the breaker off on your current system…