Is tankless right for your house?
- You want to free up space in a small mechanical room.
- Long showers back to back leave the family short of hot water.
- You expect to stay put until the fuel savings cover the cost.
- Your gas meter and line can deliver the higher flow these units need.
What makes Mississauga installs different
Incoming water from the lake is cold in winter, sometimes just a few degrees above freezing. A tankless unit must raise that temperature a long way, so sizing for a January morning matters more than sizing for July. Older homes often still feed the first tank with a half-inch gas pipe, which may be too small for a condensing tankless model.
How we install it
- We measure the gas line size and length and confirm the meter capacity.
- We plan the vent route: condensing models usually exhaust sideways through the wall in plastic pipe.
- The old tank is removed and the wall-mounted unit is hung and plumbed.
- Service valves go on so the heat exchanger can be flushed in future.
- Gas, water, condensate drain and venting are tested before handover.
What moves the bill
Upgrading the gas line is often the largest extra. Vent length, a condensate drain route and electrical supply for the unit also count. A permit is typically needed for gas appliance work.
Worth asking
Ask what flow rate the unit delivers at your winter inlet temperature, not just its maximum. Ask whether a water softener or scale filter is recommended, and how often the unit should be flushed.
What callers want to know
Do tankless heaters work during a power cut?
Most need electricity for their controls and fan, so they stop during an outage, as do power-vented tanks.
Will I wait longer for hot water at the tap?
Slightly, in some cases, since the unit starts heating only once flow begins.