Just wash it right off

[insert Linkin Park's "Crawling"]

That just killed one of my personal goals, thanks.

You haven't been to Europe then. I have a boiler in my basement which delivers hot water for two bathrooms and a kitchen as long as I want with constant temperature and never breaking down. That's not even something special just the standard.

That's amazing. I mean, I haven't seen/heard of a tanked hotwater heater in my country in decades, outside of increasingly infrequent rooftop solar heated tanks.

We've got instant gas, but I suppose most are electric now. Been running for decades with only needing to be adjusted between summer and winter temps sometimes.

Tanks are just... Useless. Takes up space with no benefit. Tanks use more power or gas. They fail more often (despite your personal experience).

If your tankless system is lasting less than 20 years, you're doing something wrong. If your tankless isn't giving steady water temp nonstop, you're doing something wrong. I mean, those are two of the main benefits they have over tanks. That, and cheaper to run.

Their only advantage is they're cheap to buy and cheap to install.

It's the cheap boots issue.

You save money up front and so you waste money long term.

Or, you buy good boots that last.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

If you live in an area with hard water, you are suppose to descale the heater at least once every year by flushing the system with some citric acid solution, otherwise you may get irregular hot water flow.

Dang that sucks. My house came with some kind of Rinnai unit and it's worked pretty well. I clean it out with a special chemical wash every year or two and it's been great. Every now and then it decides it doesn't want to go, but I just unplug and plug it in and it's good for the next few months.

Unless you're showering in the basement, then your pump doesn't work, and you'll flood the basement as soon as you fill up the waste water tank.

For me it's when I regain consciousness, after staring into the endless void that envelopes us all in its dark embrace... Or when I wanna go to bed.

it's like how as kids we want to gorge on candy, then when we get to decide our own diet we do that once and from then on there is no more desire to gorge because we know it's actually not that great.

you don't actually want to shower for 3 hours, it just feels that way because you never get to reach the point where you naturally stop wanting to shower.

lol yes it's a standard form of housing, remember that 80% of people live in urban areas basically no matter which country you're talking about. 50% of the population lives in the 3 metropolitan areas, the vast majority of the population lives south of gävle, and basically everyone in the north lives on the coast or in the few inland urban areas.

The nordics are honestly pretty similar to north america, just on a much smaller scale. no one lives in wyoming but that doesn't mean the USA has no dense areas (NYC has a larger population than norway).

Absolutely, the majority of the population does live in "small houses" with 1-2 families but over 40% live in "Multifamily residential" with more than 2 families per building. I suspect that most of the "Multifamily residential" buildings are considered to be apartments.

The country is very sparse but that's mainly because there is a lot of land with absolutely nothing except trees. Most live in cities or towns where it's much denser (obviously nowhere close to Paris or London though)

If you don't happen to have generational trauma, store-bought is fine