Hi, I just found your website. I am surprised that I did tho. I have a comment to make regarding a message board that is about ‘hot’ water heaters. I cannot post a message because I am not a member yet. But my message is…it took 6 posts to get to the one who knows that there is NO such thing as a ‘hot’ water heater. And the goof who started the board did NOT understand the comment on that. If we had hot water what would we need water heaters for?! HMMM… I know that there is hot water out there…but most of the time we need a water heater. Maybe someone there can point this out to the fella who started the board. Oh…and since I am a newbie at inspections…I plan to get into doing more. There is so much new construction near me…and I had done windstorm. I enjoyed that and want to do more. Thanks. GENIE
Pretty good point, although I don’t know who the “goof” is they are talking about.
I love inline water heaters. Those are so awesome. I have one in my new house and I can run a shower for hours (If I wanted) and not run out because it is off of propane and it doesn’t use hardly any. I love it!
When a water heater is full of hot water and some is used the thing turns itself on and yes, heats the hot water some more. So in this very common circumstance, it is in fact a hot water heater. When it was new and full of cold water it performed as a cold water heater that day. It sometimes is a warm water heater.
Interesting. A ‘wannabe’ inspector who is “surprised” at being able to find the most prominent home inspection web site on the internet, who cannot operate their own spell checker, who is not a member “yet” (indicating that there is possibly some difficulty in qualifiying for membership or some other reason for delay), and who does not know the difference between a ‘message board’ and a ‘message thread’ - wants to take a shot? Talk about getting one’s self into hot water…jeez!
Maybe while researching some more hard to find home inspection sites like NACHI, our hapless hero may want to voice his displeasure at http://www.hotwaterheater.com/ who reports that:
"With a ®Tanklesshot water heating system you get:
While we are on the subject of verbage, what in the hell is a “bird’s-mouth cut”, anyway? Birds do not have mouths…they have beaks. Mouths imply the presence of lips, which birds lack. This has always bothered me. We need to get this out of glossary.