Joey Condon
Realtor®
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Tankless Water Heaters — Are they a benefit?
June 20th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Home Improvement & Design
Every home should have a tankless waterheater and if you are building a new home, it is the perfect time to talk to the builder and tell him/her that you want to be part of saving the environment and saving money $$$!!
What are the benefits?
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When the faucet is not running water is not being heated, no electricity being used.
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Water heaters can be placed close to outlets so water usage goes down because the hot water has less distance to travel.
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No extra room in the house for the tank style water heater has to be built so the extra space can be used for living.
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No huge tank to store the hot water and no reheating the water in the tank when if cools.
What are the slight draw backs?
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Initial cost of installation is slightly more expensive, but savings eat up the extra cost.
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Possible location regulations that require the tankless to be on an exterior wall if using a gas heater.
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Jealousy from the neighbors with the added money in your pocket each month.
These are just a few of the reasons to use a tankless water heater. Some of the builders in the Bryan/College Station area are using these systems for their new construction so check out the builders in our area when interested in building in the Brazos Valley.
For more information about building in Bryan/College Station or if you want info about tankless water heaters please feel free to contact ME Joey Condon @ joeyc@century21bcs.com
I hear they have been doing the tankless water heaters in Europe for over a decade…Looks like were finally catching up.
I know that I’ll put a tankless in when my old water heater goes out!
We have a tankless water heater. It takes some getting used too but I think it’s worth the extra expense upfront.
Correction.
It takes some getting used to.
Brenda – What is it that takes some getting used to?
What Brenda was referring to is the amount of flow that is allowed through the water heater at one time. With conventional water heaters, the pressure coming into the house is the pressure coming through the water heater. With tank-less water heaters, the flow is limited. When multiple points are calling for hot water from the same heater, they split the pressure. This is being corrected by installing multiple tank-less water heaters. In my $1.1 million listing in Pebble Creek, the master bath has 3 Tank-less water heaters linked together to run the shower that has over 1,000 nozzles of water that could possibly be spraying at the same time someone was filling up the bathtub.
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