Cabin water heaters

[bowhuntertx]

For those of you with cabins on your places, what propane water heaters have you gone with? I’ll need to replace an electric 30 gallon water heater with a propane water heater. I’ll be running off generator power now instead of electric service. Are you mounting the heaters inside or outside of your cabins?


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[SLICK_N_STICKY]

This is what we use at the
Camp. Planty of hot water.

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Camp shower

[bowhuntertx]

I used one of those for a camp shower a while back, It did work well. I wonder if it be enough for our shower and 2 sinks. I really like your setup with the heater and pump? Is that cabinet homemade?


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[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Made it from scratch. It's worked flawless for the last 3 years.

[kmitchl]

My old lease had a 20 year old conventional 40 gal water heater in a bunkhouse for six that always provided plenty of hot water.

[Russ79]

Buy an on demand water heater from Sportsmans Guide. They work well.

[Big_gun]

those little tankless are great... replaced the $400 RV one in my old trailer with $110 tankless... you might consider 1 in bathroom / one in kitchen

[bowhuntertx]

Thanks for the ideas. Ill look into those

[Puncher51]

Originally Posted by SLICK_N_STICKY

This is what we use at the
Camp. Planty of hot water.

Man I sure would love to see more of your setup! I’m needing to get the water hooked up on our new off the grid cabin.

[bboswell]

Originally Posted by SLICK_N_STICKY

This is what we use at the

Camp. Planty of hot water.

Never seen a propane heater that didn’t require an exhaust vent. How’s that work?

[Dchilds]

This is a screen shot of our new setup. I still need to work on cleaning up the electrical and a few other cosmetics. It worked great. We used to carry this in and out of our little cabins to take showers and run a sink and decided it was time for a stand-alone bath house.


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[Dchilds]

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[Kenner97]

Originally Posted by SLICK_N_STICKY

This is what we use at the
Camp. Planty of hot water.

I like this set-up. Going to build a pump house similar to this for my cabin.

[bowhuntertx]

Originally Posted by Dchilds

This is a screen shot of our new setup. I still need to work on cleaning up the electrical and a few other cosmetics. It worked great. We used to carry this in and out of our little cabins to take showers and run a sink and decided it was time for a stand-alone bath house.


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Is your tankless vented to the outside?


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[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Yes, It's vented. We leave the doors open when in use.

[Muel9293]

Great idea.

[Dchilds]

Originally Posted by bowhuntertx

Is your tankless vented to the outside?


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I intend to install a 12v fan above the heater that I'll kick on during use. I also plan to leave the window cracked so air will flow. This is not a recommendation or guidance but, in my experience with these little heaters, they don't run long enough during a short shower to cause an oxygen depletion situation. Keep in mind, they only fire up when the valve is open/water is flowing through them. I guess if you took a long enough shower in a non-ventilated area, you could run into an issue.

[BonesandArrow]

Originally Posted by Dchilds

This is a screen shot of our new setup. I still need to work on cleaning up the electrical and a few other cosmetics. It worked great. We used to carry this in and out of our little cabins to take showers and run a sink and decided it was time for a stand-alone bath house.


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If you turn the temperature dial down, does the water come out cool? I’m building a camp shower house and wondering if I even need cool water to the shower.

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

I added a external faucet( bypassing the heater) to run a water hose to the cleaning rack nearby. Runs off the same pump the shower does.