In Hot Water Heat and Power

In recent years, In Hot Water has offered a new specialty, low-cost but highly efficient radiant heat kits that are designed for the do-it-yourselfer, or for contractors to install.

In Hot Water Heat & Power is located in the mountains of Northern Utah, about 50 miles from Salt Lake City in the Upper Ogden Valley community of Eden.

Mission Statement

Our company philosophy is to consider energy conservation from all angles:

• Home Construction
• Renewable Energies
• Smart Appliances

We can help you whether you're just starting a home, refitting your existing home, or heating a family cabin.

Did you know there are two primary uses of solar energy?

Solar panels (called photovoltaic or PV panels) can convert the sun's rays into electricity, which is stored in batteries. Solar thermal panels, on the other hand, use the sun's energy to heat your home's water.

Both types of solar have many applications -- they're not, however, always used in the same systems. Some homes, particularly those "off-the-grid" (that is, not connected to a power line), will use both, though their solar thermal systems are secondary.

But many homes, "on-the-grid", in subdivisions or on farms, find a solar hot water system to be sufficient.

Such a system will not only heat domestic hot water for showers, laundry and other uses, but the hot water can be funneled through a radiant-floor heating system that warms your home from the floor up. It's the most comfortable, constant kind of heat because there's no air blowing through furnace ducts. As a result, there's much less dust, dry air, and furnace noise.

Solar hot water is the most accessible and practical of all the solar technologies

An estimated one million residential and 200,000 commercial solar water-heating systems have been installed in the United States. Although there are a large number of different types of solar water-heating systems, the basic technology is very simple. Sunlight strikes and heats an "absorber" surface within a "solar collector" or an actual storage tank. Either a heat-transfer fluid or the actual potable water to be used flows through tubes attached to the absorber and picks up the heat from it.(Systems with a separate heat-transfer-fluid loop include a heat exchanger that then heats the potable water.) The heated water is stored in a separate preheat tank or a conventional water heater tank until needed.

If additional heat is needed, it is provided by electricity or fossil-fuel energy by the conventional water-heating system. By reducing the amount of heat that must be provided by conventional water-heating, solar water-heating systems directly substitute renewable energy for conventional energy, reducing the use of electricity or fossil fuels by as much as 80%.