Navien is the most Efficient

    Navien The Most Efficient Navien America, a subsidiary of the South Korean company Kyung Dyong Navien, is now manufacturing the most efficient tankless water heaters in the industry. These Energy Star-rated water heaters achieve energy factors (EFs) as high as 0.98 by using conventional and condensing heat exchangers to capture heat from flue gases as well as latent heat generated when water vapor in these gases condenses into liquid....

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    Solar Water Heater and Tankless Update

    Solar Water Heater and Tankless One of our readers is working on installing a domestic solar hot water heater in conjunction with a tankless.  They were going to go with a Rheem tankless to offset any additinonal temperature increase that was needed over the solar gains.  Unfortunately they found out that the particular unit that they were planning on using senses the incoming water temperature, buy ‘ignores’ water that is...

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    Renting a Tankless Water Heater

    For a lot of people in Ontario renting your water heater is something you have always done with a charge of roughly between 10$ and 20$ a month. Companies that provide this service (for the most part) put in low end tanks so that their return on investment is only a few years. The problem is that low end tanks are energy hogs and consume copious amount of power. The company you rent it off of doesn’t care about efficiency as they are...

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