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A Tankless job for the New Year

Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s some good info about tankless hot water heaters.

Natural Home Magazine: To understand how tankless water heaters operate—and why they’re more efficient than standard water heaters—let’s look first at storage water heaters, common in most American homes. A storage water heater consists of a 40- to 80-gallon glass tank wrapped in insulation and encased in steel. Cold water enters the tank and is heated by a gas burner or electric heating elements that start every time the water temperature inside the tank drops below a predetermined setting, ideally around 120°F.

Storage water heaters work well, although they may not provide enough hot water when demand is high. They also lose a lot of energy maintaining a constant temperature between active periods—what’s...

How much does a new A/C and heating system REALLY cost? Often, when looking at buying a new central A/C and heating system, prospective owners tend to focus primarily on the initial cost. With the rising costs of everything from food to fuel putting a big squeeze on all our pocketbooks, most of ushave to pay attention to make sure we have more funds coming in every month than going out.

The fact that our website has a cost comparison grid might reinforce the natural tendency of our readers to focus too much on the initial cost. I recently read a really good article that reminded me of the following:

A lot more goes into the ongoing cost of AC system ownership than initial cost – there are really four parts to the total cost picture.

Approached in a different sequence than normal, those four parts are:

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In part 1, we went over how having proper insulation, weather seals for doors and windows, and maintaining a clean system can help optimize your heating and cooling system to help it reach its full potential while keeping costs down. Today, we’re going to touch on three other key points that will help you optimize even further.

Everybody likes saving money, yet we all like using our air conditioners and heaters to keep comfortable in our homes. To help you achieve both, we’ve put together this handy little list of ways you can maximize your heating and cooling systems efficiency without costly investments.