Best water heater/hot water storage

[FATCAT]

Looking for recommendation for a top of the line hot water storage unit. My current indirect heated hot water storage tank (which is now leeking on the basement floor) is only 3 years old which replaced the same exact tank that was only 5 years old when it went bad! Warrenty has run out so I definitely do not want to buy the same type of tank (Hotstow brand).

One thing is that here in NH, the well water is quite hard with a

lot of iron (they don't call us the Granite State for nothing) so if there is some brand that uses stainless steel or some other corrosion resistant linings and coils, that would be what I'm looking for.



Any suggestions?



Thanks.

 

[Amianthus]

Check out www.cechot.com I have one and I love it. I would also invest in a water softener if I were you.

 

[FATCAT]

Amianthus,

Thanks for the info. It seems that that company only sells the these units as self-contained water heaters which sould require me to pipe my LP to the machine. My current setup is that my boiler fires up and circulates hot water in a pipe that runs in a coil in the water storage tank. That heats up the water in the tank and the boiler water never mixes with the water in the storage tank.

Also I do have a water softner and a water netrualizer connected to the water supply. Its like we have acid instead of water out here. Before I had the netrualizer installed, we would get this blueish green stuff around the copper pipe ends and sink faucets, then we found out that the water was very acidic and the blue/green stuff was the copper pipes being eaten from the inside.

 

[Amianthus]

Oops. I didn't read your original message completely. My bad.

But I would still recmmend one of those units. I replaced an electric unit with one and it works awesome. Only on when you use Hot water and you get an endless amount of it. (How do you think I wash the truck in the winter?)

I know what you mean about the greenish stuff. Although in small quantities, it's actually good for the pipes. It protects them from corroding further. But the way you describe it, you were going through pipes pretty fast. Good luck.