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Hot water heaters have become an essential part of the household and don’t require professional installation. Once you have all the right equipment and tools at hand, you can easily install one yourself.

Sunlight is an extremely effective water heater, and if you’ve ever left your garden hose lying outside on the lawn on a hot, sunny day, then you have definitely felt the hot water coming out at the other end.

Edwin Ruud’s eyeballs would be spinning in his long-dead head if he were to come back to life and witness the evolution of his invention. Ruud is generally credited with inventing the storage type hot water heater unit back around 1889. His creation allowed water to be heated and stored in a metal tank until a demand was placed on it.

The point of owning an RV is to create a comfortable sense of home away from home. Part of that reality is reliable hot water for showers, dishes, and maybe to throw on intruders in a tight spot.

One of the joys of modern technology is the ability to simply turn a knob and — presto! — hot water flows forth. It’s made cleaning our dishes and laundry to cleaning our bodies much easier than the old-fashioned method of heating water on a stove or over a fire.