How Tankless Propane Water Heaters Work

If I say “water heater,” most of you will probably think about a bulky, tin can-looking tank that takes up lots of space in your basement and runs out of hot water when you’re enjoying a long shower.

But what if I told you your water heater could be the size of a small suitcase, mount on a wall, and give you hot water for hours on end?

That’s what you’ll get with tankless propane water heater. Here’s how it works:

• A tankless water heater uses a heating element that instantly warms cold water on demand. That means water won’t sit in a storage tank losing heat and sucking up energy dollars while it waits to be used.
• When you need hot water, you simply turn on the faucet. Cold water will then run through a pipe in the water heater and activate a propane gas burner, which heats the water as it passes through.
• Water heating will continue until you close the hot water faucet, which also shuts the gas burner.

A tankless propane water heater is extremely efficient – first, because it never has to reheat water (as a traditional water heater does after its water has been sitting for a while), and second because it has no pilot light.

How much more efficient are tankless water heaters than traditional models? As much as 50 percent! And keep in mind that it’s also almost impossible to run out of hot water with a tankless system, no matter how many showers, hot baths or laundry loads are running.

Tankless water heaters also last longer than systems with a tank – about 20 years compared to about 12 on average for a conventional water heater.

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