In addition in many areas outside of United States, electric tankless water heaters are considered to be far superior to standard and more traditional hot water heaters with tanks that take up entire closets and indeed soak up lots of dollars each month.

The tank units are seen as antiquated and entirely inefficient in both water heating mechanism and costs. Yet people stick with because they are tried and true.

In many ways, this belief is true. Hot water heater tanks never quite stop working and are generally fairly reliable. But there is one over riding issue with traditional water heaters which is that even if nothing in house is using heater, heater is still wasting energy and therefore still costing money. But despite what they have used in past and despite what they have paid for water heating in paste, people can actually change their heating and hot water rates if they install a tankless water heater.

Several factors that have to be considered before any serious basement renovations take place include ceiling height, stair pitch or steepness and emergency egress. All three of these requirements can differ considerably depending on where you live. You can call your local building department and they can tell you these requirements. As for what emergency egress is, it is basically an emergency escape. A door of at least 30” wide in most areas is considered a very safe egress but a window has to be a certain size and a minimum distance from floor in order to be considered safe. Believe it or not, way safe size and height of a basement window is calculated is by determining how easily an overweight elderly person (considered worst case scenario) can open and climb out of in case of a fire or another emergency. In reality, these building codes were put in place because no one is going to get out of one of those old metal framed 18” X 30” pull in basement windows very easily (especially an overweight elderly person) and they would probably die trying in unfortunate event of a fire.