Oh yeah.

[cjsmith]

me: Hi! You around?
rfrench: Yep. Afternoon flight cancelled due to burst water heater
me: Ugh! ...ours?
rfrench: We don't have a water heater
me: Oh yeah!

I forgotted. :-)

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

At the friends' where we're staying in Ipswich, we were cautioned that the thermostat for the furnace needs to be turned up (it's one thet's programmed to go down during the day when no one is usually home) in order to have hot water for the shower. It took M & B a year of living in this house to figure out the relationship.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh interesting! How does that work?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, there's no separate water heater, but rather some sort of exchanger that has coils of plumbing that go through a section of the furnace. I haven't spent much time looking at it - they have a serious horror-flick basement here :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

How unusual! It makes lots of sense (well, unless for some reason you want hot water during the summer) but I've never seen anyone do it that way.