Need a whole house tankless water heater

Was going this route myself but after talking with plumbers and research stuck with a tank. They suck uo an insane amount of gas so will have to be located close to meter with dedicated line. Was too much modification to make work for me. What really sold it was look at a parts diagram of a tankless vs a tank. It’s like comparing a fighter jet to a paper airplane in terms of complexity

Just upgraded my tank from a 40 to 50 gal and have not ran out of hot water yet. As kids get older and if it would become an issue I’ll add another tank hooked up in series.

New tank was $400 and i installed myself, tankless is $1,500 for heater alone and was $2k to install.

You're going to need 3 or 4 double pole 60 amp breakers for a whole home electric water heater. Each heating element requires it's own power supply, at least the ones I looked into but that was several years back.

Run the numbers? It wasn’t worth it for me. I do have dual 50’s in tandem for a 4.5 bath home. Never run out of hot water. I replaced both of my 20 year old heaters last year for 400 each but I only pay for the heater, my plumber doesn’t charge me labor/misc. materials.

Thanks I guess I just need better tank

I would definitely not do an electric tankless, seems like that would suck an assload of electricity.

Love my rinnai tankless. Only complaint is where it is located. Takes a very long time to get to master bath...but that would be the same for a tank as well.

I added THIS to a second tank in series between my well and my water heater. Have plenty of hot water and the A/Cs cool better also.