Tankless Water Heaters Dallas Texas

Green Living Overview

Tankless, Hybrid & Solar Water Heaters


In the featured videos, Lawrence Spector, head of the Service Department at Public Service Plumbers, discusses water-saving fixtures, including water-heaters, toilets and faucets, and how the plumbing industry is responding to environmental concerns.

Tankless Water Heaters

Tankless water heaters, also called instantaneous, continuous flow, inline, flash, on-demand or instant-on water-heaters, are also available and gaining in popularity. These water-heaters instantly heat water as it flows through the device, and do not retain any water internally except for what is in the heat exchanger coil.

Tankless heaters are often installed throughout a household at more than one point-of-use (POU), far from the central water-heater, or larger models may still be used to provide all the hot water requirements for an entire house. The main advantages of tankless water-heaters are a continuous flow of hot water and energy savings (as compared to a limited flow of continuously heating hot water from conventional tank water-heaters).

Hybrid Water Heaters

A hybrid water heater is water heating system that integrates technology traits from both the Tank-type water-heaters and the Tankless water-heaters.

The hybrid water heater maintains water pressure and consistent supply of hot water across multiple hot water applications, and like its tankless cousins, the hybrid is efficient and can supply a continuous flow of hot water on demand.

Solar Water Heaters

In some locales, solar powered water-heaters are used. Their solar collectors are installed outside dwellings, typically on the roof or nearby. Nearly all models are the direct-gain type, consisting of flat panels in which water circulates. Other types may use dish or trough mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a collector tube filled with water, brine or other heat transfer fluid. A storage vessel/container is placed indoors or out. Circulation is caused by natural convection or by a small electric pump. At night, or when insufficient sunlight is present, circulation through the panel can be stopped by closing a valve and/or stopping the circulating pump, to keep hot water in the storage tank from cooling. Depending on the local climate, freeze protection, as well as prevention of overheating, must be addressed in their design, installation, and operation.

Low Flow & High Efficiency Toilets

The New Throne for Your Home toilet voucher program offers up to $90 per toilet to replace existing high-flow toilets with low-flow or High-efficiency toilet models. Typical pre-1985 toilets use between 5 to 7 gallons per flush and post-1985 to pre-1991 use 3.5 gallons per flush. The low-flow toilet uses 1.6 gallons or less per flush —saving more than 50% every time it is flushed. The high-efficiency toilet uses less than 1.3 gallons per flush—saving more than 60%.

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