hello everyone this is Noah with save Greene here again and today we're gonna
go over a tankless natural gas water heater and we're also going to show you
why many customers such as this one here are going with a tankless natural gas
water heater if you currently have a natural gas tank water heater whether it
be 40 50 60 80 gallons whatever so what we're gonna do before we come back and
take a look at this is make a quick trip to one of our local box stores and show
you the prices of tank style water heaters and then we will come back and
show you why this customer in particular went with this type of water heater so
here we are at Home Depot prices for gas water heaters 660 for 644 548 519 really
expensive
and they don't seem to get better here the price is 600 400 400 500 all this
for natural gas water heater okay folks now that we've come back and returned
from our field trip over at the box store we want to show you a little bit
about these water heaters they have been very popular in European market so
they're very popular on the other side of the world and that's why you can see
the 16 L that's actually 16 liters so this particular model runs about 4.2 or
4.3 gallons per minute if you have a low-flow showerhead you're probably
running about a gallon per minute so if you do if you don't and you have maybe
two and a half gallons per minute this will do a whole-house no problem as you
can be taking a shower and then someone else can be using hot water at the sink
or faucet doesn't matter but a 16 liter they also have 18 liter for bigger
applications but just so you have an idea how big it is I have my tape
measure there and it's 24 inches high and it is about 13 inches wide so
they're not very big at all as you can see and in this particular application
and I'll show you here real quick as far as the width goes so you can see that
it's roughly about 13 inches wide and maybe just about
there you go about five inches from the back to the front so it's not very big
at all and you can see it's got the exhaust there to exhaust the the fumes
out you have your temperature control here and then you can also control the
water flow and that's what this is for if you want more water sensitivity to
when it comes on and you can have either summer or winter mode so that's why
these these water heaters are very popular in the European market and then
you can see at the bottom you have your inlet which is your cold water coming in
right here and then the hot water returning back into the home as hot
water to your area that you're heating whether it be your shower or sinks and
faucets whatnot and then of course the yellow line you see there is your gas
now again you already saw what the prices are for tank propane water
heaters at the box store these guys that normally run anywhere from 200 to 250
dollars they're very easy to install it took us maybe about 45 minutes to an
hour to do the entire installation once we remove the old water heater the only
thing you would need to buy is this little piece right here that's an
adapter to adapt our u.s. gas line thread so the European thread your
threads for your water are gonna be the same kind of like like you have now but
what I recommend you do and we did it in this case we actually took the device
with us to the box store so so we were able to get the proper piping and
threads and all that so we didn't have to make another trip so our suggestion
is once you get it take it with you to the box store and you'll be able to get
all your fittings and connections accordingly you also do want to buy
either a teflon tape or something like this which is a pipe thread compound and
you're going to use this to put it around your natural gas
line as well you can use it for your water so you could either get this or
teflon tape and it'll work just fine but we already tested it and one thing you
have to consider since again they're European and on the other side of the
world is the temperatures reading is in Celsius so you'll have to gradually
adjust your temperature here and and you can just go on your phone and and Google
what what that temperature is in Fahrenheit so we have it at I believe in
the mid 40s which is close to 100 1520 degrees Fahrenheit that's good enough
for many applications but we used to have a tank style water heater sitting
there and we removed it customer had the floor completely caving in because the
water heater had leaked and actually was about to fall through so we had to
rebuilt the floor and we rebuilt we actually built a a frame around it to
hold it in as far as the tankless natural gas water heater but again this
is Noah with save green here what I'll do is I will post a link down at the
description so you can check it out but they're about I would say one third of
the price of what you would spend on a tank water heater and good thing about
these guys is they're only running when you actually run the hot water faucet in
the house so it'll save you lots of money on your natural gas bill as you're
not heating the water so right now no one inside is using hot water so it's
just idles just stand in there as far as a tank water heater if you're in a
winter climate and it's cold around it guess what all it takes is one degree
for it to drop and it's gonna turn on and you're actually paying the propane
usage when you're not really using the hot water so this is a wise investment
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