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Tips for Hiding Water Heater in Your Home

by Kathy Joe July 25, 2019
written by Kathy Joe July 25, 2019
Tips for Hiding Water Heater in Your Home

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One of the most important appliances for any home is a water heater. They provide a clean and hot supply that is used in a multitude of different ways and rooms. On this site, we’ve covered different topics related to these, including the different types of water heaters available.

We’ve also looked at the pros and cons of tankless water heaters and provided advice for anyone looking for electric tankless water heaters. However, they can also be, depending on the type, cumbersome and a bit of an eyesore. So are you thinking of how to hide a hot water heater?

This is something you need to give a lot of serious consideration to, as the last thing you want is to invest in a heater only to find it detracts from the rest of the décor.

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  • 6 Tips for How to Hide a Water Heater in Your Home
    • 1. Plan Out the Basics
    • 2. You Could Use a Closet
    • 3. Build the Heater Behind the Walls, Where Possible
    • 4. Perhaps Install It Outside
    • 5. A Pegboard Screen or Cloth Screen
    • 6. Choose a Tankless Model

6 Tips for How to Hide a Water Heater in Your Home

There are some ingenious ways to hide them and hide it so well that people may begin to wonder how you are able to have access to a hot supply.

Care must be taken to hide a water heater, and you must ensure that you don’t disrupt the functionality and efficiency of the appliance. To help you out, though, in the following post we are going to look at some tips to hide water heater.

1. Plan Out the Basics

Plan Out the Basics Hiding a Water Heater

The first and foremost thing to remember is to sort out a place where you can permanently hide your heater. Instead of a position that needs to be changed regularly as that’s just not viable or practical. If possible, before you buy your new model you should already be thinking about where it’s going to go.

To help you make the right choices, you need to ask yourself some questions such as, what power connections does it need, what capacity does it have and what are the dimensions of it? Finding the answers to these questions before purchasing can help you make the necessary plans required.

2. You Could Use a Closet

You Could Use a Closet

A way to hide hot water heater it that’s as practical and effective as it is affordable is building yourself a bespoke hot water heater cabinet. You could utilize shiplap to ensure it is in keeping with the other walls in the room.

The one concern many people have of this type of solution to the problem is that it may look a little forced or even artificial. However, that’s as much to do with you choosing the right materials and right finishes than the actual idea being completely wrong.

3. Build the Heater Behind the Walls, Where Possible

Build the Heater into the Walls

Why not take inspiration from all those hotels and other business premises throughout the world. Where the walls are slick and smart and there are not a sign of the applience . But you still get a fast and responsive hot supply from the faucets.

The reason for this could be that they have hidden their supply out of sight and out of mind behind the walls. When taking this approach, though, you’d need to make sure you were careful to make it so you could remove and replace the heater again whenever it needed maintenance checks and repairs. No longer a need for a waterheater cover.

A sliding wall installation might also be an option to consider.

4. Perhaps Install It Outside

6 Tips for Hiding Water Heater in Your Home

Rather than tearing apart your home or trying to create a storage solution you just don’t have adequate space for, you could consider installing it outside, that way it would be out of sight and out of the way completely.

Although this option is potentially expensive, it also makes the most sense practically and if you’re looking to save some storage and working space on the interior of your home.

5. A Pegboard Screen or Cloth Screen

A Pegboard Screen or Cloth Screen to hide water heater

Why not use a decorative hot water heater cover like you would find in a bathroom to provide privacy for the shower enclosure? Although a bit outside the box, if you’ve got a look that you can change should you tire of the cover.

Failing that, another simple suggestion would be to use a screen or room divider, like those that people often have as places to get undressed and dressed behind.

6. Choose a Tankless Model

Choose a Tankless Water Heater

In fact, rather than looking for storage and structural solutions, why not take things back to the basics with the choice of actual type. Instead of a big and bulky heater with a storage tank, you could consider a more cutting-edge and efficient tankless heater.

Not only do these have a great reputation for running well and offering a high return on your investment much quicker than storage heaters, but they also have the benefit of very slick and streamlined design. One that lends itself to being hidden in plain sight. There are even some that are small enough to fit inside a standard kitchen cupboard.

As you can see, with some thought and planning, there are plenty of options for hiding them away. Gone are those days when you needed to have a fully functioning airing cupboard or utility room to store the unsightly appliances. You can now, especially if you opt for a modern tankless version, have them just about anywhere without them being too obvious.

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