11 Jan Efficient Comfort: Your Guide to Tankless Water Heater Installation
Welcome to Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler. We are your full-service plumbing contractor. Our staff of skilled plumbers are familiar with every type of legacy plumbing system and all of the most modern plumbing innovations. We are experts in grafting new technology onto existing systems.
One of the technological innovations that is most in demand by homeowners is the tankless, or on-demand, water heater. Most homes in the Tyler, Longview, and Whitehouse areas can benefit from replacing their old storage tank type of water heater with one of the new tankless hot water heaters.
How Does a Tankless Water Heater Work?
Tankless systems, gas, and electric models are also known as on-demand water heaters. However, every water heater is technically an on-demand system. You turn on the faucet, and hot water flows through your pipes. The drawback of ordinary water heaters is that they must always maintain a large reservoir of hot water. This requires constant energy to keep that water hot and ready to go whenever you need it.
On the other hand, a tankless water heater only heats water when it is required. This saves energy for 95% of the day when you do not use hot water. In addition, it also provides an endless river of hot water rather than the limited amount provided by a typical 30-40 gallon water heater installation. It’s easy to drain the tank accidentally under heavy usage and requires a lengthy delay before more becomes available.
How to Install Tankless Water Heater
Tankless water heater installation is straightforward once the plumber completes the initial site assessment and planning. Since even the largest whole-home tankless systems are far more compact than a regular water heater, finding a suitable water heater installation point is mostly about tying into existing utility systems and running cold and hot water pipes into the unit. Ensuring sufficient amperage to electrical tankless water heaters is vital. Proper venting of gas-powered units is likewise a key consideration.
What Size Tankless Water Heater Do I Need?
What is most important in any tankless water heater installation is a careful assessment of just how large a supply of hot water is needed. Some installations may call for a single whole-home unit frequently mounted in the space formerly used by the previous water heater. Other solutions may call for more than one unit but smaller capacity.
Apart from a whole-home unit, there are many other tankless water heaters. Very small units are in kitchens as a source of instant hot water for warm beverages. A satellite unit is often installed in a bathroom far from the main water heater. This can save energy by reducing the wait time for hot water to flow through a long series of pipes before reaching its destination. External buildings such as garages, barns, or cottages can also be ideal candidates for a mid-sized tankless water heater installation.
Although it seems simple, it’s best to leave tankless water heater installation to the experts. Water heater installation requires a firm grasp of the plumbing and electrical sections of the local building code and the experience to calculate BTU loads and flow rates. An improperly sized water heater installation means that the homeowner either has more systems than they need or is insufficient to handle their daily requirements.[/vc_column_text]
Benefits of Tankless Water Heater
Any tankless system provides endless hot water, but the rate at which it does so depends upon the size of the unit (or units), the diameter of the water pipes, and the capacity of the available electric or gas supply. Not having to maintain a large reservoir of always-hot water or push it along a long series of pipes before reaching a faucet results in considerable cost savings over a traditional system.
Because their thin profile and wall mounting also free up space formerly occupied by the home’s current water heater, these units can be installed almost anywhere utilities can reach them. This means they can go to many locations that would be impossible to fit a conventional system into.
Tankless Water Heater Repair
As with any other mechanical device, how long one of these units lasts is at least partially dependent upon doing some routine maintenance on the system every year. Properly maintained, one of these can have nearly double the expected lifespan of a regular water heater.
The big enemy is sediment and mineral deposits buildup inside the system. This can throttle the flow of water inside the system. Low flows result in longer wait times for the same amount of hot water that once came easily and rapidly. You can reduce these risks by cleaning or replacing the inlet filter yearly and draining the unit per the manufacturer’s instructions. Apart from these simple tasks, you can do other things to keep the system working efficiently.
How to Clean Tankless Water Heater
Having Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler provide an annual inspection and repair visit is the best way to keep your system running at peak efficiency. We can perform all the basic maintenance tasks while simultaneously examining the more hidden factors that build up gradually.
Dissolving built-up minerals and sediment allows you to enjoy peak energy efficiency and water delivery rates at all times. This slowly growing constriction is the number one cause of poor performance. You can prevent this by having us provide a comprehensive flushing of the system that will remove these obstructions during our annual maintenance visit to your home.
The most usual treatment for mineral buildup is to insert a quantity of a dissolving agent, usually vinegar. This will transform hard mineral blockages into a softer sludge that the system can push out through the flush ports on the water heater itself.
Contact Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler for Professional Water Heater Installation
Whether you are looking for maintenance and upkeep of an existing system or a complete tankless water heater installation, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler is the company that can do the job for you. We are a local company proud of our reputation for prompt service, low cost, and trouble-free tankless water heater installation.
Transform Your Home’s Hot Water Experience Today
It is hard to express how superior a tankless water heater system is to conventional tank water heaters without actually experiencing it for yourself. By getting your tankless water heater installation, you can enjoy an endless supply of hot water whenever you require it. On top of that, you get faster delivery with no recharge times. Tankless water heaters cost much less, and you will enjoy substantial savings on your monthly utility bill.
Contact Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler for professional installation. We are the local experts in all new water heater installation projects, repair, and maintenance. Let us show you how to incorporate this marvelous, energy-efficient new technology into your home.
Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Tyler serves the East Texas cities of Kilgore, Longview, Tyler, and Whitehouse with a team of certified plumbers. In addition to emergency plumbing repair, some of the plumbing services provided by the company include faucet repair, drain services, toilet repair, plumbing fixture installations, tub and shower installations, kitchen sink repair, faucet installation, water heater repair/replacement, and garbage disposal replacement. Call us today at (903) 730-6611 to schedule an appointment!