GASLANDBS318 Outdoor Propane Tankless Water Heater 3.18GPM, 12L Portable Hot Water Heater for Cabin, Barn, Camping, RV, Overheating Protection, Easy to Install, White

1st I want to give a kudo’s to Mary, Gasland Customer Service Manager. I am very happy with the fix to my problem, my experience has been with a great Customer Service Department that stands behind their product.My set up.I used an old steel / porcelain bath tub. I plugged the over flow with a bolted on piece of cedar and then raised the tub water height by bolting on two cedar 2x4’s at about a 15 degree angle around the top, this lets me have a deeper tub for my 6 ft. frame. I can put my feet up on, the once the top but now, ledge with my feet still mostly under water. I have used marine spar varnish and silicone caulk to seal the cedar, but have to refinish every few years. So I am going to try “Pond Shield” with I refinish the cedar this winter.A piece of 1” clear suction hose is connected to the tub drain with a 1 1/4 ” to 1” clamp on type rubber reducer. With 1” hose connectors at tub and pump. Going to a 1 horse, stainless steel housing lawn irrigation pump (more forgiving then iron if accidental freeze up happens), I like the Utilitec pump. I built a small ‘pump house’, basically a hinged roof on an open sided 2x4 box frame. Keeps rain off in the summer and the pump is easy to pull when it starts freezing at night.I run a ¾” hot water type garden hose (I got a 50’er from Sears, which I cut to the lengths I need) to a standard house water filter.Then a 3/4“gated wye at the filter output. One for attachment to the Gasland outdoor water heater and another to bypass the heater, straight to the tub for running cleaning cycles.And again a length of the hot water garden hose for the water heater to the tub, the cut end just hanging into the tub. I made an 8” copper pipe to hose extension piece so connecting the output to the garden hose would be easier. For the intake side just another piece of garden hose coming from the filter. Both the intake and output have quick disconnect type connectors. All the garden hoses’ are wrapped in water heater hose insulation, available from any hardware store that has plumbing stuff.And then the brains of the outfit is an Inkbird 308 temperature controller outlet thermostat.The water circulates from the tub through the water heater till the water gets heated to the desired preprogramed temperature. The pump, which is hooked into the Inkbird receptacle, shuts off automatically at the selected temp. You can also set the thermostatic range for how cool it gets before turning the pump back on again.I use a heavy 12/3 outdoor extension cord with a GFCI. In the summer I use the GFCI to turn the pump on via the Inkbird. In about 10 or 15 minutes the tub water warms up to the 112 degrees I like.In the winter as long as it’s mostly above 20 degrees in the daytime, I take the pump and filter inside, drain the hoses and make use the of Gasland’s handy drain plug, I added a 2” long bolt as an extension to make pulling the drain plug easer. There is a female threaded end on the drain plug.When temperatures start hanging out between 0 and 20 during the day I will pull the heater as well. Takes me about 10 minutes to set it all up, a bit longer to pull and drain the hoses and all. When it’s this cold I never let the water not circulate, except when I’m actually in the tub. Just turn off the propane and set the sensor out of the hot water to keep the water circulating.If it’s going to start staying below zero with no warmer days in sight till spring, then it’s time to ‘pickle’ the whole set up till April. Thanks to global warming, in 2019 that was the 2ed week of December, 2020 mid-November and still hot tubbing. 20 years ago I would not have made it to Halloween.The tub is insulated and I use 1 ½ blue foam, double thick, to cover the tub, with a ¾ hole for the hot water hose, melted into the cover. Then a rubber cork to plug the tub drain. Even at zero the water is liquid for 3 days (or perhaps a thin crust of ice) and still doesn’t take more than 30 minutes to heat up from 33 degrees.For the summer I have a tub size wood frame with a clear plastic roof on poles with a mosquito net canopy held against the tub sides with elastic bands. It’s about 4 feet above the tub. I cover the water with a piece of plastic just to slow evaporation and keep the water cleaner when the tub is not in use. This canopy setup is replaced with the foam insulation covers, once the leaves and snow has fallen.Then 34% food grade H2O2, (or 29% for H2O2 used for hydroponics) and some chlorine, plus filtering the water a few hours every couple days like a swimming pool. I don’t like to use chlorine (bleach) so use as little as I can and put it in after a tubbing so it’s gone before I tub again but H202 is too expensive to use exclusively here in Fairbanks. I use about 15 filters a tub year, buying them in boxes of 50 each. In the summer I change the water every other week of so, using the tub water to wash vehicles or water the lawn. The 40 gallon Tub now holds around 70 gallons of water. Another cleaning must is a skimmer, I use a piece of 1 ½” PVC pipe, belled at the top, which friction fits over a piece of irrigation pipe. The irrigation pipe friction fits into the bath tub drain, with a little help of poly tape. The PVC end I can raise or lower to just the right level to create the skimmer effect. Just sucking off the bottom doesn’t clean the water nearly as well or quickly. I also use another piece of clear 1” suction hose which can be stuck into the “sunken skimmer” end and using one hand to seal the hose to the skimmer I can vacuum the bottom of the tub, stuff too heavy to float.I used an Aqua star on demand water heater for 20+ years, which took a lot of nursing and repairing over the years. It had a pilot light which ate the propane so I always had to manually light the Aqua Star every time I wanted to heat the water. The Gasland water heater has worked so much better, it always ‘just lights’ every time I turn on the water pump and seems to use less propane, I love it. Though after 6 months of living outside under an eve I made to keep rain off the heater, I did have to clean the connectors in the battery box when I changed the batteries, power wasn’t getting out of the battery box.Two small critiques of Gasland. It would be handy if they had manuals and troubleshooting guides on their web site. The only online manual I found was for one model posted by Home Depot. And while the manual states in three places to “orientate” the batteries correctly there are no + or – markings visible on the battery box. I guess they just expect everyone to ‘know’ the spring side is the negative side.

I have a jacuzzi tub out in my greenhouse that I enjoy soaking in. (READ: Zen environment)It's plumbed into my house hot water system. The problem is my home HW tank is 50 gallons, and my Jacuzzi tub holds 240 gallons. You can see where that's going whenever I wanted to use it.Soooo... I did a BUNCH of research.. (Hours and hours and hours.)I knew I wanted to be able to FILL the tub when I needed to soak.I knew I needed it to be as hot as possible.And I knew I wasn't interested in buying a massive HW tank for the house that I would have to pay for the electricity to keep it hot until I wanted to use it.I chose propane to avoid having to wire up a 30 amp breaker into my house wiring and then running it out to the greenhouse. I chose on demand propane water heatin so I can control the cost of the hot water I'm using.This unit is AWESOME!It took me about half an hour to install it. For the initial run I just ran it with the shower, all as prescribed and described in the directions. I put the showerhead in the tub and left it to start filling. Within 5 seconds there was serious steam coming up from the tub and I made the mistake of putting my hand down into the water stream to check the temperature.Yep.. It needed adjusting.. DOWN! I left it running slightly hotter than I intended to soak in as it's a bit chilly this evening in NE Florida and I wanted to allow for temp drop before I got in.Long story short... It makes all of the hot water I want!My well water pressure isn't the greatest so I set a timer for 18 minutes to come back out to make sure it was running hot water. (It has a 20 minutes safety shut off feature.) At exactly 20 minutes I heard the unit "CLICK" and I pulled the shower head out of the tub and sure enough.. Within a few seconds, it began running cold water. I turned the water off at the shower head shut off, then flicked it back on. Instantly I heard another "CLICK" and a "Whoosh" and the heater restarted and in 5 seconds the water was just as hot as it was pre-shut-off.I love this thing! This wknd intend to do a little Big Box Store shopping for some plumbing fittings. Going to disconnect the tub from the house hot water supply and run this new on demand water heater into the hot water side of the tub spigot.So far.. Very satisfied. I'll update in a few months to let everyone know how the conversion to hard water line supply went and how the heater is working after a hundred uses or so, some comments on the efficiency of it, etc.Buy this heater!---UPDATE.. 4 YEARS LATER---After having "hard plumbed" this water heater into the hot water feed on my jacuzzi tub... I've literally had ZERO issues with it.The 2 batteries (Amazon Basics rechargeables) typically last a year before they need changing. It still fires up instantly. Creates piping hot water instantly.While it's installed under a roof, it is exposed to the typical Florida humidity year around. In the last year it's developed a couple of bubbles in the paint on the front of it. I peeled the factory paint off where it was chipping, and hit those spots with some almond colored Rustoleum. Arrested the rust in its tracks. And since it's aesthetics are of no great concern to me, it was a viable solution.I guesstimate that we use it to fill a 240 gallon tub 200 times a year.This thing should be labeled "Timex"... because it keeps on ticking.Still... very satisfied!Still giving it 5 stars!