Girard On-Demand Tankless Water Heater

Works great. But when it came it had couple of dents. The rv repair guy was still able to make it work

Works wonderfully!

Called about ordering the water heater, had some questions, Dyers directed me to the company for answers. I called Girard and spoke to a very helpful customer service man, he answered all my questions, and even explained how to use the water heater to get the most out of it, thanks. I called Dyers and ordered the water heater and door, arrived in 5 days, installed as per directions, very simple, fired it up, and worked well, just had to change my thinking a little on how to set water temperature,

I would have given this a 5 star, but we installed it to discover there was a cracked valve. The valve was replaced quickly, but it took more work to than switch out the valve. Now that it is working it is great. Hot water for every shower, even long ones!!!!

I've been looking at these for years thinking I might finally dodge the problem of never having enough hot water for my wife. The grandson and I go days without showers and when we do, the little six gallon is always enough. BUT....Finally took the plunge and bought one. Dyers did an absolute fantastic job of getting it here in a hurry and at a great price. I had it installed by a local dealer who said it was an easy retrofit and everything went well. I'm sure he was a little miffed because I didn't buy it local but , what the hey! Tested it in our driveway , just at the kitchen sink and seemed to work great. I opted for setting the temp as high as it would go, (120) because she likes it hot! Gave them a quick instruction on turning the hot fully on and then only bringing in cold if you needed it. Pretty nervous when she went in, and I sat out in the kitchen were he had the display mounted as she tried it for the first time. I watched as the unit came to life , the digital fan blades spinning , showing flow , and the little flame icons showing heating, and then the temp climbing to 120! It did fluctuate one time down to 118 but then very quickly back up. I watched triumphantly as the time ticked by, almost twenty minutes to be exact. Got the "two thumbs up" and it continued to perform day after day for the whole week we were there. I even got in it once just to try it out and I am totally amazed. RV'ing just moved to a whole other level! We leave for our third vacation in about three weeks and can't wait to try it again. I guess you could shower until you run out of gas. And that's the best part! You only use gas when it's running!! How sweet is that? We left at 54% and returned after a week at 49% !!! I am so totally happy with this unit!

Purchased this vehicle for our 2011 Park Trailer for deer lease. Would be perfect for our group of 5 campers who do like to shower once in a while! Installed per the directions then made the mistake of not testing until we took it to the woods. Unit powers up, but when you turn on hot water faucet you get an immediate E7 error which indicates a "open circuit in linear valve control circuit indicating a faulty valve". What? this is a brand new unit.

We camp occasionally and we would camp more often if my wife was able to take she same time in the shower as she does at home with out running out of hot water. After installing this myself which was pretty easy, It takes less space and is much lighter and now I am not toting around a extra ten gallons of water. Using it for the first time this past weekend I got a thumbs up from my wife that it works! It took a little fine tuning to get the water to slow down going through the unit because it could not keep up with it keeping it hot as she likes. It burns me, It uses less propane and runs only as needed.

We are full timers and needed something to replace the anemic little 6 gallon water heater our RV came with (2014 Forest River Cherokee). The first year we had the RV I purchased a 20 gallon 110 volt household heater and had it set up under the rig when we were parked. It was much better then the six gallon one, but the drawback was it added another step to the setup/tear-down process when it was time to move. Also it was still difficult to get two back-to-back showers out of it even if we were very conservative with the water flow. 110 volt heaters just don't recover fast enough to do a good job heating water. I started doing research on the tank less heaters and after much debate decided to take a chance on the second generation Girard despite the mediocre reviews of the first gen models and the lack of any reviews for the 2nd gen model. First of all Dyers shipped it VERY fast! I ordered it on a Sunday night and the heater arrived at 11:00am Wednesday followed by the door kit 11:00am Thursday. The first thing I noticed about the heater is the light weight....probably about 1/2 the weight of an empty 6 gallon tank model. I was planning to do the install in stages after work since we were not using the built in water heater anyway. I began by removing the original 6 gallon Suburban heater early this afternoon. The process went so well I decided to go further and see if I could slip the Girard in place to check for fit and to see how much modification I would need to do to the cut out, plumbing, gas line etc. Surprisingly the Girard slid right in with only a trim to the skin of the RV. The gas line hooked right up with no effort and after a quick trip to a local hardware store I had the pex lines run to the back of the heater. I picked a location inside, close to the heater, to mount the control panel and after running those wires and attaching the 12 volt power supply wires off of the original heater I was finished! From unpacking to turn on ready in only about 2.5 hours! Normally when things go that smoothly I fully expect some major setback to be waiting right around the corner. I turned on the water, bled out the air and had no leaks. Next I turned on the gas and hit the switches. The control panel came to life and everything seemed to be working. The heater is very quiet and you cannot hear it fire up from inside or outside the RV....very different from the Suburban that was vaguely reminiscent of a jet engine turning on. A few tests and temperature adjustments later and it was a done deal! Of course the real test was to try a shower and since my day was done I jumped right in. It takes a few seconds longer to get hot water at the tap than a conventional heater but once it is there it is hot and steady. The adjustments for a shower are a little different as well. I found myself using the hot water valve almost exclusively to adjust the water temperature. The slower the flow the hotter the water and vice versa. After a little bit of a learning curve I got the hang of it and it was fine. I tried different spray patterns on the shower head and none seemed to change the water temperature enough to notice a difference. I stayed in the shower for quite a while and never noticed a fluctuation in temperature or pressure. In theory I guess I could have stayed in until I ran out of propane, but after what seemed like a very long time I gave up and got out. So far it seems like the Girard is going to live up to it's "new and improved" claim. I am curious to see what the propane consumption will be since I am going from a total electric heater to a total gas one and also what the lifespan of the heater will be. Only time will answer both of those questions.