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Tankless Water Heaters

The first oil fired tankless water heater is finally here. This product is made in Japan,  the companies head quarters is  in Brookfield CT, about an hour away from our Connecticut office.   This is a great idea for your next oil fired water heater replacement, as it will use about half the oil as [...]

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Inside Naviens training seminar: The new combi boiler.

May 28, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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Reporting from inside an official training seminar:  The Combie Boiler from Navien-
We were recently invited to attend Navien’s most recent training seminar to discuss the new addition to their product line.  The new Combie tankless heater/boiler.
This product is amazing, and Navien’s product representative Rich gave us all the inside tips about the proper installation and [...]

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Fixing a tankless water heater.

May 24, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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We got a call from the website yesterday about a Navien tankless water heater not working properly.   She admitted that she did not have a professional plumber install her unit, which we could tell when we looked over the installation, but it certainly wasn’t the worst installation we have encountered.  The funny thing was, that [...]

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New Tankless water heater installation @ Harbor Close Townhouses (14 pics)

May 14, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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We installed a Navien 240A for our newest client Mrs. Butterworth last week in her beautiful condo- townhouse. (Never knew the difference).  last week. This installation wasn’t easy, but it’s one of our best jobs yet.
If you have a townhouse, condo, or apartment and your old hot water heater needs to be replaced, a tankless [...]

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Navien troubleshooting guide (service manual)

April 25, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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If you are a regular visitor to this site, or have seen our RSS feed running on one of the  few thousand  home improvement sites that subscribe to our RSS feed you have already read our first (very popular) post about Navien troubleshooting.  For those of you have haven’t yet, please do here.  There’s some [...]

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Another high quality tankless water heater installation in Fairfeild, 8 pics

April 22, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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I bought a new camera last week so I’ve been snapping some before and after pics for the world, and our future clients to see so here we go again.  It’s  easy for plumbers to tell you they know how to install tankless water heaters, but we would rather show you.      [...]

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An amazing duel tankless water heater installation, with 20 pics.

April 17, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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We have talked about tankless water heaters on this site many times in the past, about how they work, how they save you money, how to find an installer, what you can expect to pay, shown you a few pictures, and much more.   This post is going to be a bit different.  [...]

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Why does my hot water take so long to get where I want it?

March 9, 2010 Other plumbing topics
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Heat rises, and the hot water in your water heater will push some water up there the pipes, so if you’re hot water heater is directly under your kitchen for instance, the hot water will only need to travel a short distance to get to the faucet, thus the hot water only takes only a [...]

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Navien complaints & trouble shooting (Part 1)

February 12, 2010 Tankless Water Heaters
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The search term “Navien Complaints” unfortunately has been getting searched here over the past month or so.
We have created this post to discuss possible issues with your Navien tankless water heater, but before we get into the problems and solutions I want to talk a little more about the Navien tankless water heater in a positive manner, [...]

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How to Maintain a tankless water heater.

December 14, 2009 Tankless Water Heaters
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Tankless water heaters are now designed to last 20- 30 years.  This is done by 1 owning a high quality tankless water heater, and 2 preforming a little maintenance on it. Without maintaining your tankless water heater investment you might only get half that time, so be sure to protect your investment by having a [...]

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How Tankless water heaters work.

December 2, 2009 Tankless Water Heaters
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Tankless Systems
In order to understand how a tankless water heater works, it’s important to know how a standard tank heater operates. In a traditional heater system, there’s a large tank that holds and heats water. In order to give you hot water when you need it, the tank continually heats the water to maintain a [...]

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