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Tankless Water Heater Facts
Jan 12th
Tankless Facts
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- 25% of every household energy dollar is spent making domestic hot water. Heating water with a conventional tank is the third largest energy consumer in your home (behind furnace and A/C).
- Electricity is the WORST way to heat hot water while natural gas and propane gas are much more efficient. Based on national fuel price averages of $1.46/ccf and $0.09/kwh, the cost/100,000 BTU’s is $1.46 for natural gas and $2.64 for electricity. Just under 60% of North American households have access to natural gas, and if you don’t, propane gas is available to almost everyone and is still a better value than electricity. In addition electric water heaters have only a small fraction of the capacity of gas water heaters. So if you like expensive, short showers, with cold water at the end, use electric; otherwise gas would be a better choice.
- Modern gas fired tankless water heaters are the best alternative available to today’s homeowners to reduce their residential energy consumption. A typical gas fired tankless water heater cost about 2-1/2 times as much as a standard tank water heater. However it will pay for itself in just a few years or less, and will last twice as long as a tank.
- If you are considering a tankless water heater Rinnai is likely the best choice. On average a new Rinnai is installed somewhere in North America every 3.75 minutes. Rinnai has shipped over 30 million tankless water heaters world wide.
Takagi Tankless
Dec 10th
Takagi has been around since 1952 and has provided the tankless market with a number of firsts.
- Takagi is the First tankless water heater company specializing in tankless-only products to enter the 
North American market.
- Takagi is the First tankless water heater company to offer a tankless product (the T-H1) with an amazing thermal efficiency rating of up to 95%.
- Takagi is the First tankless water heater company to offer a “direct vent convertible” tankless model (the T-K3) which allows you to convert the unit to a direct vent unit.
Takagi is the First tankless water heater company to utilize the air-fuel ratio rod, a unique safety device.
Takagi has 10 tankless units to choose from, they range from small residential heaters that are capable of 3.0 gallons/minute to large industrial systems that are able to produce 7.9 gallons/minute. Of course most of their systems are smart link capable which doubles their output.
