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Builders of new homes always strive to provide features that their clients want. They know new home buyers look for the best amenities. These include high-efficiency gas furnaces, tankless water heaters, fireplaces and other luxuries that can not be offered in an all-electric home.
By choosing to build an all-propane home, builders can help their clients enjoy greater comfort while saving hundreds of dollars in energy costs compared with what would be spent on an all-electric home. The all-propane home has grown so popular that there is a model known as the Propane Energy Pod, which merges five applications of propane into an integrated whole-house energy package:
Keeping your home warm more efficiently than electricity, a high-efficiency propane furnace offers all the warmth you need, even during the coldest days and nights. Propane furnaces last up to 50% longer than electric units. Additionally, high-efficiency direct-vent propane space heaters can provide zone heating to the most used rooms in your living space—and you won’t have to rely as much on your primary furnace. Read more about space heating with propane.
Propane water heaters offer a hot water recovery rate that’s about twice as fast as electric models, which means there’s little chance of running out of hot water! Propane water heaters also take up less space, have more accurate temperature adjustment and offer more size and installation options. Find out more about propane water heaters.
With superior heat distribution and better temperature control than electric stoves, propane gas ovens, stoves and ranges are preferred by the vast majority of professional chefs. When you adjust the heat levels on a propane stove, the result is instant. On an electric stove, it takes longer for the temperature to heat up or cool down. Propane stoves can also be used even if you lose your power.
Quickly reaching the required temperature to dry clothes evenly, propane dryers operate for about half the cost of electric dryers. Clothes see less wear and tear as a result of the moist heat of propane dryers, and your propane dryer’s moisture-sensing controls will automatically shut it off at the right time.
Offering a higher efficiency level than other sources of energy, propane gas fireplaces are great for inside or out. You’ll get double the heat as wood fireplaces but spend about one-third the money. You’ll also enjoy about six times the heating capacity of an electric fireplace. Like propane stoves and cooktops, propane fireplaces will continue to operate during power outages. Read more about propane fireplaces.
By fully embracing propane, home builders can provide their clients with greater comfort and efficiency. If you’re a construction professional looking for a way to stand out from the competition and grow your business in Tennessee, remember: propane can do that.
