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Installing a Tankless Hot Water Heater
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Installing a Tankless Hot Water Heater
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" This is a different type of water heater and certainly if these -- americanized right yes it is. Tell us about it. Well this unit weighs forty pounds and it's actually large enough to do the entire home -- no tank there is no -- not store any hot water and all therefore it'll never leak. And you will be able to have this much -- order issue need endlessly it will not run out of hot water."
" As long as you're turning on the water cause that's correct demanding hot water you're. You're burning gas flame that's heating up waters with a point of use -- what are the other."
" technically means to me that you would have to have a heater installed close to a faucet and here you can't just under the whole home. We call an instantaneous. That we don't call -- point of --"
" OK now I know that in use in Europe. Many people who traveled in Europe have encountered. Yeah old fashioned ones right above. The tub for cancer I think you have to turn done yet another technology is very contemporary you've got to ask -- cutaway model that."
" I do have a cut away model here and I can explain a little more about it. First of all these seconds -- designed primarily for the America market showed that the volume produced is more. And people meet -- accustomed to having had in here we take longer showers and we take longer or more volume more volume right we like cash okay. Found -- way this operates is that it has a cold water line and half inch connection okay and the cold water. Would enter the heat exchanger right here. And this isn't cut away here this is a cutaway model this is essentially all earlier this would be a closed copper shields with copper tubing running through it."
" When you open a hot water faucet in your home. The water valve which is a brass bound behind me. C a little bit of it right here and there the FBI brass water valve when you have opened a hot water faucet. We'll cross that diaphragm and they -- two cents a pressure change. And it will keep press allowing gas to flow to a pilot. Which then will ignite chip -- so you don't have a pilot that -- all the time. With this unit shows a pilot which could be -- would be -- all the time. But the units that we're bringing in this fall campaign battery ignition so you would not have the standing pilot great. In any case the hot water trigger will cause the burners to. Flame up right and give you I'm 117000. BTU to a lot of energy and yet so you really what how hot can you actually make -- walk. We're come governing this at a ninety degree rise in normal inlet water temperatures around fifty yeah so you get -- forty degree water gets -- and that would come. Through all of the corals in the -- heat exchanger right hand out your house waterside -- anywhere from half a gallon to two gallons a minute. If you want more power more volume. You can go up to three and a quarter gallons a minute and then you have. Be up to about 870 degree temperature rise to seek and I'm very comfortable -- about three and a quarter down some."
" What are some of the advantages of this over the standard you know. Water heater tank."
" Well I see several advantages I think that one of them has certainly that you never run out of hot water out. Race herself having raised three children at home -- terrific advantage. I think second believe you are using far less energy to -- your only having found about thirty minutes today. You're not storing anyhow water there. So you have many let's reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
" OK what about installing these Cubans go one of these before I assume that -- small -- you take the thing apart -- next fall discover. -- straight off slice up the bottom. As the hard part of the stars are. And we've actually gone from a couple of -- Aren't at all. -- hero that's politics so instead it a couple of bolts are actually come with the unit and they just. -- And they're designed to hang on Jennings saw to take a water heater you put the -- place and actually. -- around the chimney and use the same plume protest saying so hurts us OK as far as the chimney is -- I'm not a precise and help you and a Jihad. It's like hanging a picture -- if you -- now what about the connections -- have to -- We have water hold water my hair. We have hot water outlet here and we have natural or LP gas and attaches here. So you have the option of using this where you don't have guessed -- industry absolutely. OK well I -- hasn't been completed but what what else would have to be done them there well something. On the hot water side. Yes sort them closely with something called question that you felt. Just just to protect the equipment in apparently -- Do you know overheating. So nobody can there -- at least -- sure I -- Great merry one last question your crack what's the cost."
" These columns on average about 550 dollars depending on where you're shopping me. It's about the same as a very high end well insulated storage tank -- and the pay back is count can be in two to three years depending on how much water."
" you and there's no water tank to rest dug into a landfill that's absolutely right and you know they're fine tuning in water heaters a year ago that the landfills."
