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High Efficiency Water Heater Installation and Buderus Boiler Factory Tour

Bob visit the Buderus boiler manufacturing plant with Chris Hoff to see how the house and water heater is made.
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High Efficiency Water Heater Installation and Buderus Boiler Factory Tour

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" Joining us now is -- wood -- that Chris all right good but we're now -- but we got here well we have a complete their system to control. The boiler with a high efficiency if you -- your rating and which is providing hot water. Through our panel radiation throughout the home that's how we can -- out exactly here not here we have our indirect fire without -- And what we have here is a special. There are always coating which is on the inside of this you know panel. And that the several -- coating provides. Clean water can be used for domestic hot water and a long long life and equipment exactly. Recently as tonight toward the factory Wes Clark Germany. Where they make these block. We're here to visit with the -- folks we're going to be touring a factory that dates back the 1730s. It's a company that's been. -- manufacture of iron products for all these centuries and they have very very fabulous technology in terms of modern items such as water heaters we're gonna learn how they make the tanks in the -- go inside. So we got a noisy place -- what's what's happening at this stage. All we haven't the raw materials including coming in."

" here and here the vending machine not going to warm. Foil or indirect water a look at that that's very clever of the prophet of the indirect thank technology -- That -- indirect foil that is being formed here -- boiler water running through it. Welded into it vessel right and the domestic water surrounds it could take heat away. The benefit is that you're not you. Gas fired blame. On the bottom of your longevity. -- Judy Hubert who went down in Iraq. Now is that right that the with a book giving -- there. Indirect water -- any area with clean up that arcade that clean out space that you can physically get into the where they have the -- I felt that meant to be there right defensive back did not have a what was I thank you -- that you can service that very OK now what happens next -- that the McClellan well for the -- and take a look for. OK now that the totally. Automated robotic profits back here at these aren't just put into. What are those -- often fall on the basis the basis of the tank of resistance and how to connect with the guts inside only divided it upon him. Humans are going to be. And he actually feel the proper coated steel wire to this -- electric watch out when welding rod back. He's got one wire with the he's done one hot wire for each side would -- front that they've left in the middle OK. -- We'll. All thing on the inside and on the outcome now. A special thermal live -- added to it that's proprietary. We'll see them come out. --"

" All right so that's -- finished Lennon and completed unit yup and here you're making different sized tanks here right that's correct right now as the forty gallons. Removing a plastic and -- succeeding -- thank -- laid down in the template what are you doing here is watering them templates so that the anything -- could be. It's a -- that's like the liquid polyurethane exactly yeah and so what we're looking at here is actually uphold. Exactly the template of graphics tablet that maintains that jacket in position as -- expanse. OK so here you got the bulbs with the sleeve in it -- yeah it is in the template. And you'll drop into. The template. Loaded up. The pressure -- with a polyurethane foam all right does that set up right away or does it need to make it takes a specific period of time but it's no longer than ten minutes. OK that would expand at a tremendous rate really packing in to get a very the end. Insulation -- it is noted I think Britney stand. OK and that it just basically travels around the circle Bryant comes back out at this end. We're essentially you've got. -- that the operation. Cleaning it up and packaging it right that's drafts -- take out and out of the mold and pleaded not. It puts it not it. A lake terrific."

" Nice and neat and then back here. This provides access to whenever you have to do any repairs correct exactly what's unique about the -- air system here is all the piping comes. Back side right so what it does is allows for a nice neat and it. Front and I don't want him that terrific thanks Chris I can't wait -- get fired up between --"

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