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Rinnai Tankless Water Heater named among Top 100 Products

Much like when looking for a professional plumber in the Raleigh area, you need look no further than the water heater experts at Poole’s Plumbing, Professional Remodeler Magazine recently looked to the innovators in tankless water heater technology consistently since the concept has gained popularity, Rinnai, and their Ultra Series RUR model as a part of the honorees included in their list of Top 100 Products.

Gaining this prestigious honor in the mechanical and electrical category based on a public vote, and garnering this lofty praise as part of the Top 100 Products for the third consecutive year, Rinnai is the number one selling brand of tankless water heaters in the United States and Canada. In a press release, speaking of once again being a part of the Top 100 Products  listing, Rinnai Vice President of Marketing, Mark Buss said, “Being recognized by Professional Modeler’s readers who are the key decision makers for buying products or influencing product selection is an empowering acknowledgement of Rinnai’s commitment to innovation and to providing water heating solutions for the remodeling industry.” Buss concluded, “It’s especially rewarding to know this community has positively responded to our Ultra Series RUR models, highlighting a significant product.”

With a unique design, providing consumers with endless hot water whenever and wherever it is needed, the award winning Rinnai Ultra Series RUR98i and RUR98e models have the highest hot water capacity per BTU of any Rinnai models. This allows for the units to support hot water being used by multiple sources at the same time, and provides more venting units on each model to aid in allowing this to occur.

This is the 15th year that Professional Remodeler Magazine has compile their Top 100 Products of 2016 listings, and the publication is recognized as one of the most respected in the remodeling industry for detailing breaking news, trends and techniques and business updates as well.The Raleigh water heater experts, Poole’s Plumbing are authorized dealers of the award winning Ultra series of tankless water heaters and all of the great products bearing the Rinnai name. To read more on the company’s third consecutive inclusion to this listing and specifically the Top 100 Products , visit rinnai.us.

Lessen the Waste and the “Wait” with Hot Water Recirculation Systems

Specializing in many eco-friendly and water saving practice, the expert Raleigh NC plumbers at Poole’s Plumbing can install many different products and systems to help you save both at the faucet and in your wallet. The installation of Hot Water Recirculation Systems can help you make big savings in both of these areas, all the while cutting down the wait time that you experience as you wait for your hot water to turn on.

To begin, many people may be uncertain as to exactly what Hot Water Recirculation Systems do. Explained by one of the major manufacturers of these type systems’ Grundfos’ business specialist, Tom Phillips, “The system operates because the pump creates a small pressure differential between the hot and cold water sides.” He added, “A thin wax filament inside the valve enclosure expands and contracts predictably, contracting when it’s cold to open the valve and closing as the wax expands with the heat from the water.”

The process of installing Hot Water Recirculation Systems such as the Grundfos brand model’s that are many times installed by the Raleigh professional plumbers at Poole’s Plumbing only takes about an hour or two total. Seeing that much of the heat is lost as the water travels through your pipes and that you have to wait for said water to initially heat up, installing Hot Water Recirculation Systems can save on both the energy used and water being wasted.

As explained at energstar.gov, the benefits you can see from installation of Hot Water Recirculation Systems are as follows:

  1. Recirculating pumps have the potential to solve the problem of a long wait for hot water at a distant fixture, while simultaneously saving energy, water and money.
  2. You no longer have to send cold water down the drain while waiting for warm water. Instead, recirculating pumps rapidly pull hot water from a water heater, while simultanously send cool water from the hot water lines back to the water heater to be reheated and reused. Demand systems can be controlled by the push of a button, a timer, or motion sensor.

To learn more about Hot Water Recirculation Systems you can read the entire article at the Energy Star website, or visit the Grundfos website as well at us.grundfos.com.

 

 

Kohler Water Saving Products

“Exhale” and Enjoy Comfort and Savings with Kohler Showerheads

Saving money, conserving water, and enjoying maximum comfort are all major factors to weigh out when deciding on a new showerhead, but by letting the most trusted name among Raleigh NC plumbers, Poole’s Plumbing, install any of the Kohler Showerheads or handshowers in their “Exhale” line, you can achieve all three of these.

Described at us.kohler.com as “The showering experience that will take your breath away,” the Exhale line of Kohler Showerheads offer unique and intense spray pressure to give you the ultimate in comfort in the shower, regardless of how much or little pressure you enjoy while rinsing off. There are actually four different spray options among the Inhale Kohler Showerheads, full-coverage, tense massage, and silk spray. Any of these choices gives you many options in spray pressure whether taking a relaxing shower at night or starting the day with an invigorating rinse to wake up.

Offering great convenience as well, the Kohler Showerheads in the Exhale line have a 360-degree continuous rotation feature that enables you to smoothly switch the pressure setting of the spray between the four choices above, changing every 30 degrees to the next setting. Helping to conserve water while you enjoy the unmatched comfort from a Kohler Showerhead, the popular “handshower” models in the Exhale line can also have a wall mount feature that has both an integrated water supply and allows you volume control while showering. Additionally, the soft silicone face on these Kohler showerheads and handshowers have no nozzles, making cleaning them far easier than a conventional showerhead.

On top of the easy cleaning, ultimate spray control, and convenient conservation features, the Exhale line of Kohler Showerheads also feature a water saving design that is sure to cut back on expensive water bills. The entire line is WaterSense certified and are engineered to utilize 20 percent less water than the common and standard 2.5 gpm showerhead models while still giving you all the quality features unique to the Kohler brand.

The Raleigh NC plumbers at Poole’s Plumbing are a certified distributor of Kohler Showerheads and all other plumbing products. To learn more about the Exhale line or all the other new and innovative plumbing products from Kohler, visit us.kohler.com.