The Rinnai PRO Network improves benefits with addition of leasing option through Advantage Alliance™ As professional contractors seek opportunities to maximize their engagement with customers and strengthen relationships with reliable manufacturers, Rinnai America Corporation is ready to take on the challenge. The company recently announced a nationwide partnership with Advantage Alliance™ to enable residential heating, cooling and plumbing Read more
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The Rinnai PRO Network improves benefits with addition of leasing option through Advantage Alliance™
As professional contractors seek opportunities to maximize their engagement with customers and strengthen relationships with reliable manufacturers, Rinnai America Corporation is ready to take on the challenge. The company recently announced a nationwide partnership with Advantage Alliance™ to enable residential heating, cooling and plumbing contractors to offer homeowners a cost-effective approach to maintaining home comfort. This will be part of Rinnai’s PRO Network, a member-only program offering contractors tools, training and support to help grow their business.
Rinnai’s Worry Free Hot Water program, powered by Advantage Alliance, gives homeowners the ability to install a tankless water heater or home heating products with no money down and low monthly payments through a leasing agreement that includes 100% maintenance and upgrades. The program allows contractors to offer customers an all-inclusive membership plan that includes new, high-efficiency equipment as well as routine maintenance and repairs.
“Our partnership with Advantage Alliance™ expands upon benefits Rinnai PROs can offer to customers,” said Rinnai America Corporation President, Frank Windsor. “Our initiatives, programs and partnerships are designed to support the needs of professional contractors and we want to continue to provide innovative solutions and support. From our standpoint, this addition not only benefits our PROs, but it’s also a valuable offering for their customers.”
Rinnai’s PRO Network launched in early 2020 in an effort to engage professional contractors. Comprised of elite benefits for registered users including qualified leads, rewards, advertising and technology support, the introduction of this partnership will provide yet another avenue for business growth.
“Rinnai understands the importance of helping these hard-working contractors evolve and find greater efficiencies to increase profitability,” said Nicholas Blaylock, Director of Business Development at Advantage Alliance™. “The Advantage Alliance Program also brings many benefits to homeowners by making it even easier to manage and maintain their water heating systems.”
The Advantage Alliance Program provides contractors with the necessary infrastructure and support to implement the program while also providing flexibility to customize the program to meet their vision. It will be available to all Rinnai PRO Network registered users in 2022. To learn more about Rinnai, visit www.rinnai.us.
To learn more about the Advantage Alliance Program visit www.advantageallianceprogram.com.
Use these tips to keep customers comfortable this winter Do you know how to ensure your tankless water heater installations perform optimally this winter? Tankless water heaters — known for their on-demand hot water, low energy use, and compact size — are popular among homeowners. Propane-powered systems offer an additional advantage: they can be installed Read more
Use these tips to keep customers comfortable this winter
Do you know how to ensure your tankless water heater installations perform optimally this winter?
Tankless water heaters — known for their on-demand hot water, low energy use, and compact size — are popular among homeowners. Propane-powered systems offer an additional advantage: they can be installed virtually anywhere.
For customers located in regions that experience snow and frigid temperatures, there are a few considerations for HVAC professionals to keep in mind to ensure their customers’ comfort year-round.
Here are eight tips for specifying, installing, and maintaining tankless systems in cold climates:
- Size the unit for the cold. As temperatures drop, more time and energy are needed to heat water to the desired level. To ensure customers’ tanks meet demand throughout the year, it’s important to know how they’ll perform in cold weather. For example, in Washington D.C., a unit that can produce 8.5 GPM on a hot summer day will only produce 5 to 6 GPM on a cold winter day.
- Design for the coldest conditions. Be aware of how low ground temperatures can go and how much water a household will need. Also consider the difference between the set unit temperature and the ground temperature, also known as the Delta T. The bigger the gap, the lower the unit’s flow rate will be.
- Bring it inside. Many tankless systems have some degree of built-in freeze protection. Check the product specs, and your region’s historical weather patterns, to determine where to install the tank.
- Vent smart. Proper venting is important. Installations should avoid freezing winds and have sufficiently long vent runs. In cold areas, the minimum vent run recommendation is six feet.
- Keep vents clear of snow. Before a snowstorm, remind customers to keep a few feet around the vent clear of snow. Some tankless models offer air intake from the outer pipe — if that’s blocked, the unit may turn itself off.
- Educate customers with recirculators. For customers whose systems have a recirculating loop, remind them to turn off that function when bad weather is on the way. If the vent termination is snowed under, the unit will eventually power off with an error code.
- Consider condensation. Drain condensate from condensing units into a conditioned space to avoid drain freezes, which will cause the unit to turn off.
- Be ready with backup power. Many tankless systems need electricity for freeze protection and ignition. A propane standby generator can help ensure that customers’ hot water will continue to flow, even during a power outage.
For more information about propane tankless water heaters, visit Propane.com/Water-Heating.
Bryan Cordill is director of residential and commercial business development for the Propane Education & Research Council. He can be reached at bryan.cordill@propane.com.
Rinnai Corporation, manufacturer of the number-one selling brand of tankless gas water heaters in North America, announced Peter Reiner has joined the organization as its Vice President of Marketing. Reiner’s experience includes developing innovative marketing strategies in executive leadership positions with companies such as LG Electronics, Toys R Us, and Sara Lee Corporation. Reiner received his MBA Read more
Rinnai Corporation, manufacturer of the number-one selling brand of tankless gas water heaters in North America, announced Peter Reiner has joined the organization as its Vice President of Marketing. Reiner’s experience includes developing innovative marketing strategies in executive leadership positions with companies such as LG Electronics, Toys R Us, and Sara Lee Corporation. Reiner received his MBA from Cornell University and a BS from Emerson College.
“Reiner is a highly experienced marketing executive with a wide-ranging career in various industries,” said Frank Windsor, President of Rinnai America Corporation. “We’ll leverage his expertise to build on our success as we expand our product portfolio into new and existing categories.”
As VP of Marketing, Reiner will use his extensive marketing knowledge and leadership to develop innovative solutions for growing the company’s market share in both residential and commercial markets. “I look forward to joining Rinnai and working with a great team to take the company’s innovative products to an even broader audience,” said Reiner.
Over the past several years Rinnai has made significant investments in the North American market with initiatives including opening its first North American manufacturing facility in Griffin, Georgia, and expanding its corporate headquarters to include a state-of-the-art innovation center of excellence, where it will leverage new technologies to introduce innovative products into the market. “Our brand promise is focused on ‘creating a healthier way of living’ for our customers, our employees, and our society,” said Windsor. “Peter will play a critical role in delivering that promise through marketing initiatives and superb product launches in the near future.”
To learn more about Rinnai, visit www.rinnai.us.