The $8000 Rubber Duckie

We had no idea

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Our water heater is on its last legs.

We had an opportunity to get a slightly used one, but that fell through. A friend told us about his water heater. It uses ambient air temperature to heat the water and takes almost no electricity. That sounded great!

My husband found the unit online. $2500 from a no-name distributor, or $3000 from Amazon. We…