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  Top Benefits of Installing a Tankless Water Heater As is the case with most household appliances, modern technological advancements can result in massive improvements. Here are the top benefits of installing a tankless water heater in your home: Save Money on Your Energy Bill With a conventional water heater, hot water is stored inside the tank. In theory, this keeps a ready supply of hot water on hand for immediate use, but the fact is that the hot water just sits around when not being used. This is not only a complete waste of energy; it also costs you extra money at the end of the month on your energy bill. Tankless Is Better Than Conventional A tankless water heater does not store hot water for later use. Instead, a tankless water heater only produces as much hot water as a person needs. In other words, when the hot water faucet is turned on, the tankless unit provides the exact amount of hot water dispensed until the faucet is turned off. With the installation of a tankless ...

 

  Home Tips to Help Banish the Winter Blues Ok, who's the genius who thought that turning our clocks back an hour, prolonging winter’s darkness even more, was such a swell idea? Turns out, it was Benjamin Franklin, in 1784, when he proposed it in a satirical essay. According to scholars at  The Franklin Institute  "He merely suggested Parisians change their sleep schedules to save money on candles and lamp oil." Regardless of the tongue-in-cheek nature of the suggestion, the idea of "daylight-saving" was kicked around for more than a century until New Zealander George Hudson took it and ran with it. Fitting more daylight into our days is typically welcome, but the sudden switch to darkness when we "fall back" in autumn causes trouble for some folks. Fortunately, there are some simple tricks to help us get through it. Let Lighting Do the Heavy Lifting Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD for short, "...is a type of depression that's related to c...