The answer to yesterday's "Where am I?" is: "In a house with a tankless water heater."
The picture is of a tankless water heater thermostat. This one was located in the laundry room of house Emily was showing last week. Her client asked about it and we thought some of our readers might be interested to know a little more about tankless water heaters. You will notice the brand name Noritz on the thermostat. They produce 1.3 Million tankless water heaters a year. There are many benefits to tankless water heaters including: endless hot water, up to 50% lower energy costs (see cost chart above), and space savings. Also, they tend to last longer than normal water heaters - a lot longer. We are seeing many more of these in homes today. They do tend to be slightly more expensive at the point of purchase, but like almost all green technologies they pay for themselves quite quickly.
We highly recommend choosing a tankless water heater the next time you're faced with replacing an old one or building a new home.
3 comments:
I have gas fired tankless water heaters at my home, my office and at 3 of our rentals. They can work well, but we encountered a number of issues when installing them.
I’ve put up this page describing some of the installation issues we encountered, and how to resolve them:
http://paragoninspects.com/tankless-heater-home-inspection-evanston-chicago-il-faq.html
Michael,
Couldn't see all of your address to access your page.
Rick
Rick,
See the post for Thursday for Michael's link.
WITT+HORNE
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