Electric water heaters: Inside or Out?

[grantgoold]

I have the option of placing a 6 gallon electric water heater inside or outside (bay). I would like to get your collective opinions about the placement of the heater.

Fire away.

Thanks in advance!

Grant

[belfert]

A bay makes any replacement or plumbing fixes more convenient, but inside saves bay space if you have inside space not usable for something else.

[Hartley]

Plus in a bay, if it springs a leak you don't wet the interior of the bus.
Makes hooking stuff up easier too...
Mines a 12 gallon 1200 watt @120 I got from Lowes and works great.

[Kwajdiver]

Mine is in the "water" bay.  I like it there.  For all the reasons fore mentioned, oh yes,,, 12 gallons

Bill

[JackConrad]

We installed our 10 gallon electric (from Home Depot) watter heater in the bay with our water and holding tank.  Glad we did because we had a pressure relief valve start leaking. It would have been a mess if if it had inside the bus.  And for the other reasons mentioned.  Jack

[TomC]

Because I have a transit, I installed all the fresh water system under the raised rear bed (then you don't have to heat one of the compartments to keep it from freezing-on a highway bus)-raised so that when you step up onto the platform on top of the wheel wells, the bed then is at normal height (my wife can stand straight up next to the bed-so about 5'5" worth of headroom).  Then that made enough space under the liftable bed platform for my 130gal tank, 2-10gal elec water heaters from HD (one feeds into the next with the final water heater wired through the inverter for hot water when driving), 2- water pumps (this is before the good variable speed ones out now), and the copper ball valve water manifold for hot and cold-have an individual ball valve for each faucet.  Both the drain and pressure relief valves are plumbed through the floor.  In 12 years haven't had any problems.  Plus with keeping the original rubber covered floor, will have less worries if wetting the plywood occurs.  Good Luck, TomC