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Comparing Water Heaters – What’s The Most Efficient Way To Heat Your Water?

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Thinking about installing a new water heater? What’s the most efficient water heater you can use in your home? When you are comparing water heaters, it’s more than choosing the least expensive system. You should also consider:

  • What water heater will heat your water the most efficiently?
  • How much water is wasted in order to have hot water in your shower?
  • How long it will take to break even from the cost of the system?

Comparing Water Heaters If you have an older heater, purchasing a new one will instantly add energy efficiency to your system. From there, keep these things in mind:

Heating Water For Your Home
There are two basic options with a hot water heater: tank or tankless. A traditional water heater uses a tank to store hot water, to make it available to you when you turn on the faucet. A tankless water heater has no storage capacity, and instead heats the water as you need it. There isn’t a distinct advantage either way in cost savings of heating the water, as both take about the same amount of energy.

Instant Hot Water
With both the traditional and tankless water heater, hot water is not available instantaneously. Instead, you have to wait a few seconds to a few minutes for the pipes to drain and the hot water to reach your tap. The farther away your water heater is from your faucet, the longer the process takes. Using either system, the only efficient way to have instant access to hot water is to use a hot water circulation system.

Cost of a Water Heater
A water heater lasts on average 13 years. Because traditional water heaters are much less expensive than tankless water heaters, you may never be able to recoup the difference in the cost between the two systems. And because there isn’t a substantial savings in energy efficiency of heating the water, you may end up making a wiser choice with a traditional energy efficient water heater, and installing a hot water circulation system for instant hot water access.

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