My hot water unit is finished, the gas pilot isn't staying on for more than 24 - 48 hours. The unit is from 1995. I've been told they don't usually last almost 30 years so this house did well with it. It's a fun game going into the shower on a cold winter's day and wondering if hot water is going to come out or if the pilot's gone off. Going to cost 2k to get replaced! Love these unexpected large expenses. Anyway, trying to not let it ruin my weekend. Things break, such is life.
I didn’t even know about this option! I think it will be a big/$$ job to replace a system that runs on gas with one that runs on electricity. I’m tossing up between gas storage (what I have now) and gas instantaneous. Instantaneous is more expensive to install but it should be cheaper to run than storage? I don’t know, crap thing is you don’t have long to decide when it breaks.
I own my place, but I didn't know the water unit was that old and was heading towards breaking down when I bought. The new one I'm getting looks exactly the same.
Ah that’s unfortunate. Hope you’ll be able to afford a new one. Don’t know how I would be able to handle the cold. Maybe if the weather was 35C and it was like a 3 min freezing cold shower 😅