Tankless Water Heater
Heating hot water accounts for 15% of a home’s energy usage. And even a well insulated hot water tank wastes a ton of energy. Why keep water piping hot all the time when you’re not using it?
A tankless water heater is almost twice as efficient at creating hot water AND it provides the added benefit of endless hot water — no more running out of hot water, ever!
Benefits
The first thing to know about Tankless Water Heaters is that they are significantly more energy efficient than regular water heaters.
Why?
Because regular water heaters burn energy keeping 30-50 gallons of water hot all day long, every day, whether you use any of that hot water or not. And that takes up a lot of energy. In fact, it is estimated that 15% of an average homes energy bill comes from the energy required to run a standard water heater.
A tankless water heater is just that: tankless. It heats water up on-demand, as it flows towards your (open) hot water tap. So when you’re not using any hot water, the tankless water heater is using no energy. This makes a tankless water heater almost twice as efficient.
The second thing to know about tankless water heaters is that there are two kinds:
1) Non-condensing, and
2) Condensing
Non-condensing water heaters waste a lot of their heat because when they burn natural gas to heat your water, they vent the (hot) combustion exhaust into the air. Not only does this waste energy, but it’s bad for the environment.
Condensing tankless water heaters recycle the combustion exhaust and use it to further heat the water. The exhaust gases are then both much cooler and much better for the environment. Better for the environment because the unit uses less fuel/energy to heat water and the environmentally-damaging fumes are condensed out of the exhaust and filtered.
AGILE Remodelers only uses condensing tankless water heaters, and we’ve partnered with the best manufacturer of these products: Navien. What sets Navien apart is how much more efficient their units are, even compared to other condensing units. This efficiency comes from the quality of their design, their heat exchangers, and their eco-burner technology.
Navien units are also set apart by build quality and ease of installation. They have high build quality because they are constructed entirely of high-grade stainless steel. And their ease of installation comes from the fact that their efficient burners can use your existing gas lines, rather than requiring new, larger volume gas lines be installed.
How Navien Tankless Water Heaters Save Energy and Provide Endless Hot Water
The first thing to know about tankless water heaters is that they are just that: tankless. A tankless heater heats water up on-demand, as it flows towards your (open) hot water tap. So when you’re not using any hot water, your tankless water heater is using no energy.
This makes a tankless water heater almost twice as efficient.
The second thing to know about tankless water heaters is that there are two kinds:
Non-condensing, and
Condensing
Non-condensing water heaters waste a lot of their heat because when they burn natural gas to heat your water, they vent the (hot) combustion exhaust into the air. Not only does this waste energy, but it’s bad for the environment.
Condensing tankless water heaters recycle the combustion exhaust and use it to further heat the water. The exhaust gases are then both much cooler when they are finally vented, and they are much better for the environment because any environmentally-damaging fumes are condensed out of the exhaust and then filtered, rather than being released to the atmosphere.
AGILE Remodelers only uses condensing tankless water heaters, and we’ve partnered with the best manufacturer of these products, Navien.
Why Navien? Efficiency, Durability, and Service
What sets Navien apart is how much more efficient their units are, even compared to other condensing units. This efficiency comes from the quality of their design, their heat exchangers, and their eco-burner technology.
Navien units are also set apart by build quality and ease of installation. They have high build quality because they are constructed entirely of high-grade stainless steel. And their ease of installation comes from the fact that their efficient burners can use your existing gas lines, rather than requiring new, larger volume gas lines to be installed.
Tankless Heaters Last Almost Twice as Long and Save About $100 per year.
There’s no doubt that tankless water heaters are more expensive. About twice as expensive as a regular tank water heater, and it costs more to install.
If you paid cash up-front for your heater, you’d be looking at longer to recoup your investment. BUT several years in, you’d still have way more life on your tankless unit, and you’d need to buy another “normal” water heater. So you’d not only be even, you’d be ahead by about $500 to $700 dollars or so.
Then again, if you’re doing a energy remodel with AGILE remodelers, you are most likely NOT paying cash up front, because you’ll be receiving funding, which saves you from putting out any up-front expenses.
So you could say that your ROI starts on the first month.
Navien Makes Installation Easier – Agile Makes It Easy
Navien makes installing their tankless water heaters easy through two key features:
1) Navien heaters don’t require special, larger diameter gas lines, like most tankless heaters. That means you get to use your existing gas line, which saves your installers lots of time – which saves you money.
2) Navien heaters can use regular polymer exhaust vents (rather than stainless vents) because their exhaust fumes have already been drained of most of their heat and filtered of harmful gases.
Of course, those features make installation easier for the installation crew. AGILE Remodelers makes it easy for you, by managing the entire project.
In terms of project and installation time, it usually takes about a week to order the unit and a few days to install it.
And as always, you’ll have quick phone access to AGILE to answer any questions you might have during this entire process.
When you include a Navien Condensing Tankless Water Heater as part of your home energy remodel, you’ll get the following:
- A genuine Navien Tankless Water Heater
- A XX year factory warranty
- Complete installation of the heater in your home
- Full project management and coordination from AGILE Remodelers.
- The ability to make use of PACE Funding and to deduct the full monthly payment from your taxes.
If You’re Interested In Tankless Water Heaters, AGILE Remodelers Are THE People to Talk To
Why? Simply because we’re honest about what they can and cannot provide customers and how much money they really save people.
So if you’re interested in getting a tankless water heater for your home, wouldn’t you rather talk to the energy remodeling experts who’ll tell you straight?