Reclaim Energy installer, Melbourne’s south-east.

The smallest tank Reclaim make, on the same CO₂ compressor as every other system in the range. It suits one or two people, and the reason to pick it over a 250 is almost always space rather than money: a narrow side path, a unit courtyard, a laundry corner that a bigger tank simply will not go into. Two people showering back to back will get through it, so if there is a third in the house we will say so at the quote.

The smallest tank in the split range that still makes sense for a family, running the same CO₂ compressor as the 315. Glass-lined means a sacrificial anode, a part we swap every five to seven years, and it does an honest job in normal town water.

315 L is the size most families land on, on the same CO₂ split platform as everything else in the range. Glass-lined tank with a sacrificial anode, which we swap every five to seven years, and which is perfectly at home in Pakenham town water.

The biggest glass-lined tank Reclaim build, on the 5 kW compressor. It's for a household where the draw is genuinely high and the water is kind enough that an anode does its job, and the 5 kW is what has 400 L back before the evening run.

160 L in stainless. Same footprint and same compressor as the glass-lined 160, with no anode to swap and a 15-year tank warranty instead of 10. On a unit or an investment property, where nobody is going to remember an anode in year six, that difference is the whole argument.

Same volume and same footprint as the glass-lined 250, in stainless. There's no anode to swap and the tank warranty runs 15 years rather than 10. The question it answers is how long you plan to be in the house.

Our most-installed Reclaim, and Reclaim's own best seller. 315 L of stainless with no anode to service, a 15-year tank warranty, and quiet enough at 37 dBA to sit against a bedroom wall without anyone noticing it run.

The most volume Reclaim make, in stainless, on the 5 kW compressor. For acreage through Devon Meadows and Pearcedale, or a big household in Cranbourne South, where the draw is high enough that stored litres and recovery speed both have to be there.

Same Reclaim CO₂ heat pump, on a stainless tank built in Morwell by Earthworker, a worker-owned co-op an hour up the highway. It performs like the standard stainless because it is stainless, 15-year tank warranty and no anode to service. What you are choosing is where it was made and who got paid to make it, and for a lot of people around here that is a good enough reason on its own.

The 315 L in the Earthworker tank, built in Morwell by a worker-owned co-op. Identical Reclaim CO₂ heat pump in front of it and the same 15-year stainless tank warranty behind it, so nothing about how it runs changes. What changes is that the steel was rolled an hour up the Princes Highway rather than shipped in, and around here that lands with a lot of people.

215 L sits between the 160 and the 250, on the same 5 kW CO₂ heat pump as every other split in the range. That output is what makes the smaller tank work: it puts water back fast enough that a household showering inside one hour doesn't feel the missing litres, and it keeps the footprint down where a 250 would be tight.

The Q is squat. Same 315 litres and the same stainless steel as the tall SST, in a shorter, wider body that gets under a low eave, into a laundry with a shelf over it, or through a doorway the tall one won't make. It costs the same and it is the same system. We measure the space on the site visit and tell you which one fits.

Tank and heat pump in one shell, running R290 rather than the split range's CO₂. Nothing goes outside, which is the whole point of it: 200 L for a smaller household on a block where there's no clean spot for an outdoor unit.

285 L with the heat pump built into the same shell as the tank. It goes in where there's no good outdoor position for a split heat pump but there is room where the old tank stood, which describes a lot of townhouses and a lot of narrow side paths.

The Panasonic Aquarea 4 kW compressor on a Reclaim glass-lined tank, the same tank platform as the rest of the CO₂ split range. The 4 kW is the compact one, and on a household that spreads its hot water across the day it never runs short. If everyone showers inside the same hour, the 6 kW is the one that keeps up.

The Panasonic Aquarea 4 kW compressor on a Reclaim glass-lined tank, the same tank platform as the rest of the CO₂ split range. The 4 kW is the compact one, and on a household that spreads its hot water across the day it never runs short. If everyone showers inside the same hour, the 6 kW is the one that keeps up.

The Panasonic Aquarea 6 kW compressor on a Reclaim glass-lined tank. It refills the tank faster, which is what you want when the whole house showers in one go, and it modulates further down than the 4 kW, so at the low loads it spends most of its life at it actually runs more efficiently despite the bigger number on the plate. Worth having in the hills postcodes, where the air it's pulling heat from is colder.

The Panasonic Aquarea 6 kW compressor on a Reclaim glass-lined tank. It refills the tank faster, which is what you want when the whole house showers in one go, and it modulates further down than the 4 kW, so at the low loads it spends most of its life at it actually runs more efficiently despite the bigger number on the plate. Worth having in the hills postcodes, where the air it's pulling heat from is colder.

The Panasonic Aquarea 4 kW compressor on a Reclaim stainless tank, the same tank platform as the rest of the CO₂ split range. No anode to service, and the 4 kW never runs short on a household that spreads its hot water across the day. If everyone showers inside the same hour, the 6 kW is the one that keeps up.

The Panasonic Aquarea 4 kW compressor on a Reclaim stainless tank, the same tank platform as the rest of the CO₂ split range. No anode to service, and the 4 kW never runs short on a household that spreads its hot water across the day. If everyone showers inside the same hour, the 6 kW is the one that keeps up.

The Panasonic Aquarea 6 kW compressor on a Reclaim stainless tank. It refills the tank faster, which is what you want when the whole house showers in one go, and it modulates further down than the 4 kW, so at the low loads it spends most of its life at it actually runs more efficiently despite the bigger number on the plate. Worth having in the hills postcodes, where the air it's pulling heat from is colder.

The Panasonic Aquarea 6 kW compressor on a Reclaim stainless tank. It refills the tank faster, which is what you want when the whole house showers in one go, and it modulates further down than the 4 kW, so at the low loads it spends most of its life at it actually runs more efficiently despite the bigger number on the plate. Worth having in the hills postcodes, where the air it's pulling heat from is colder.