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Originally Posted by fintstone

I suggest that you save your money and do as I did for my vacation house. I left my electric one installed, but added inexpensive switching to turn it off and on remotely from my Iphone (need internet but no new wiring, equipment, or install). Because it gets pretty cold there, I also added a recirculation pump that I could also run remotely to keep the pipes from freezing in winter. I turn both on when temps are quite low so pipes will not freeze or when I am on my way to visit so the water is hot when I get there (and it gives me instant hot water throughout the house as well). Keeping the hot water heater off a lot of the time reduces costs a lot.

It's probably leaking. We're probably going to have to replace it anyway. If we are replacing it, we may as well put what we want in place.

I'm not even sure that we're going to be able to get high speed Internet onsite, at least, not the kind that I'd want. If we can't get something that I could use to work remotely, then we probably won't get anything.

But this is lid of good info. Thanks.