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Might want to finish the bathroom work before finalizing the decision on which way it hangs and swings.

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Suprisingly enough, there isn't a lot of mixing, and the temperatures are pretty stratified.

This allows a 40 gal water heater to output over 50gal of hot water before the output cools down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7L-2J52GU

If you are competent enough to do the windows right, you can build your own scaffolding.

You are working with pieces of metal and glass... why would you want anything less safe than this?

2-3 showers would be about right on an average 50 gallon tank.

It's not perfectly to scale...🤷‍♂️

This is the answer, cold water coming in is going right out to hot side since dip tube is cracked.

This is what I saw, too.

eta: there are two doors by the bar. Configure the floorplan to put the bedroom in the corner so it has a legal egress. (And just in case you have windows, but didn't show them, the tiny little basement windows aren't enough.) If you want to keep the bedroom in the same place, you can install a window well with a legal window.

Yes, thank you for mentioning! It's not in the render but there is an egress window in that room behind/above where the bed will be.

We were fortunate that was put in originally. Flooding from a previous owner (bank repossessed/no power) destroyed most of the basement so we are getting everything fixed back up.

Right so far, but consider a thought experiment. After the first 20 gal of hot water has been drawn, the “bottom half” will be full of cold that the water heater is heating. But we know that there will be mixing, thus the hot water coming out after 10 minutes will be colder than the first gallon. Notably colder, because the tank is pulling in 50-60 degree water (typical in North America). And this will continue, so the “40 gal” capacity will be felt in the shower as exhausted well before 40 gallons of use.

This is what I saw, too.

The bathroom door hits the sink.

Needs more cowbell

….and it’s illegal because it’s dangerous - no escape from a fire that can be out of control before a person wakes up.

Edit: look up building codes for windows. Typical basement windows don’t count. There are rules about size and height off the floor. You’d have to dig a window well and cut the concrete to put in a legal window.

Yeah 2-3 showers is about what you can expect from most standard size water heaters. You could try turning up the heat to max so you don't have to use as much hot water.

Buy the scaffolding you need, use it for as long as you need it then sell it to recoup some of the cost - will be cheaper than renting etc over a 2 year period and you aren't limited to a time frame.

I can add silicone beaded along the bottom… 💡Thanks!

If the bedroom doesn't have an egress window, it's completely illegal.

I had a problem with my old tank becoming lukewarm after 1.5 showers. I changed our shower head out for a 1.8 GPM and haven't run out of hot water since. I have no idea how many GPM the old one was...

2 - 3 showers sounds about right. You might be able to stretch it out with a low flow/high efficiency shower head. I love mine but the gf needs her wand...

silicone is ur last chance

This is a great suggestion, but the real issue is that due to dry times and quantity of windows- and doing this on weekends, it’s going to probably take 2 summers on and off to get to the remaining 30 windows on level 2. It needs to be something I “own”.

Rent some scaffolding, or a cherry picker

>It lasts maybe 2 or 3 showers then runs out.

That honestly sounds about right. A lot of shower heads are about 2 GPM, so if you have a 40 gallon heater that's only gonna be 20 minutes to completely empty the tank.

But it's worth doing routine maintenance to see if there's anything that needs fixing: Flush the tank, visually inspect the elements, test them for continuity, pull the anode and while it's out check the dip-tube, and test that the lower thermostat is working. All of those could contribute to colder showers.