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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
Does anyone there have Tankless Water Heaters that the builder’s put on the outside of house, if so don’t the owners worry about those heaters freezing & bursting. I want to know because a lot of residents had theirs burst. Not in Florida but other southern states have! Just curious!
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The year I moved here, 2020, I spent closing day trying to keep my home from freezing on a 10 degree day that hadn't been seen in Houston in 50 years. Unlike Florida, in Houston ALL the plumbing is above ground -- because it never freezes in Houston, don't you know. So your plumbing enters your house from the outside street into your wall about a foot above ground, and goes into the attic, where your hot water tank is located.
And get this -- the "Oil Capital of the World" is powered by a nuclear reactor, that can't survive a 10 degree day because the cooling water comes from a shallow pond! So they shut down the power on 5 million people, and over a million homes were flooded a couple of days later, when their broken ceiling pipes thawed.
Damn that global warming!
But here's the good news -- even in Houston, my insurance was half the cost to insure the same size house (that survived three cat-5 hurricanes unharmed), the exact same distance from the ocean in The Villages!