Red hot: for a home heated with a boiler, adding an indirect tank can provide efficient, reliable hot water. (Construction Products).

Building Products | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Hot tubs, large baths, multi-head showers, and bigger homes with more bathrooms have increased America's appetite for hot water, and indirect water heaters can satisfy the need faster than any other technology.

This story provides an overview of the various options for heating domestic potable water and why indirects, as they are called, are best. One option is conventional direct-fired units or boiler-integrated tankless coils. Direct-fired water heaters (electric, gas, or oil-fired) are by far the most common technology, primarily because they have the lowest front-end ...

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