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.

[Dchilds]

Originally Posted by BonesandArrow

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.

You can adjust the level of flow and temperature on the heater itself. I rely only on that, rather than having a hot and cold knob. I only have the single valve you see right outside the stall.


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[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Yes, You can easily adjust the flow and the temperature.

[Okiehunter]

Make dang sure you drain those water heaters if you expect temps to drop below 32. Don't ask me how I know how important that is.

[Quicktothepunch]

I have a small propane heater I never used. Send me a PM and I can get you info on the one I have. I will let it go for a good price.

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Never had a problem with ours freezing up, But tried to design to be self draining when not in use.

Originally Posted by Okiehunter

Make dang sure you drain those water heaters if you expect temps to drop below 32. Don't ask me how I know how important that is.

[BigYoung]

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[Kenner97]

Just got my water heater in yesterday. hopefully build a cabinet to install it in this weekend.

[bowhuntertx]

I got an Eccotemp from a buddy, installed it last week and it works great. Takes a min to heat it, but all good after that.

[bowhuntertx]

So my heater works, but inconsistently. Our water pressure is strong. I have a pressure tank and a shallow well pump supplying our cabin with water from our 1500 gal storage tank. The kitchen sink and bathroom sink don’t get hot water. I believe it is a limitation of the pressure through the water heater. The shower gets plenty hot
I believe the flow rate if the Eccotemp water heater is 3GPM it slightly below
Any thoughts?


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[bowhuntertx]

Have any of you guys had issues with faucets not pulling enough gpm to ignite the heater?

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Originally Posted by bowhuntertx

Have any of you guys had issues with faucets not pulling enough gpm to ignite the heater?

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No, I'm pretty sure it works off the flow make sure you don't have a restriction. I installed a filter screen on the water inlet to prevent this problem.

[Hardware]

This is the one I use at camp and also have one portable I can take on any hunting trips out of state.

https://www.amazon.com/Eccotemp-L10-...s%2C156&sr=8-4

[bowhuntertx]

Originally Posted by SLICK_N_STICKY

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No, I'm pretty sure it works off the flow make sure you don't have a restriction. I installed a filter screen on the water inlet to prevent this problem.

Good idea on the filter screen. I should have done that.
I'm getting good flow and the shower still has hot water.

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Originally Posted by bowhuntertx

Good idea on the filter screen. I should have done that.
I'm getting good flow and the shower still has hot water.

(Filter pic)