Kcodyjr
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I bought a 1971 12x60 mobile home that the seller had just replumbed. As it turned out, they were repairing a rusted out main, but I had to learn that from the next door neighbor after i bought it.
Their replumb included a 30 gallon Whirlpool electric tank, but didn't include repairing the rotten subfloor the thing was sitting on. I was able to grab the top of the tank and swing it around by about 6 inches. I've ripped it all apart and discovered the weight of it was carried on only one 2x4, laying on its side, and the metal outriggers below that aren't particularly wide in that outer 2 feet.
I'm not convinced that any amount of reinforcement can make that safe, it's only a 100A service so an electric tankless is out, and there's no gas in the street, and leasing a propane tank would be prohibitively expensive just to run a water heater.
It's only my two year old daughter and I, so Army-style showers would be only a minor inconvenience. She gets shallow baths.
How small a tank have people gone with in this situation?
Their replumb included a 30 gallon Whirlpool electric tank, but didn't include repairing the rotten subfloor the thing was sitting on. I was able to grab the top of the tank and swing it around by about 6 inches. I've ripped it all apart and discovered the weight of it was carried on only one 2x4, laying on its side, and the metal outriggers below that aren't particularly wide in that outer 2 feet.
I'm not convinced that any amount of reinforcement can make that safe, it's only a 100A service so an electric tankless is out, and there's no gas in the street, and leasing a propane tank would be prohibitively expensive just to run a water heater.
It's only my two year old daughter and I, so Army-style showers would be only a minor inconvenience. She gets shallow baths.
How small a tank have people gone with in this situation?