High-Efficiency Furnace and Tankless Water Heater Upgrade in Ann Arbor

Here's what we were working with - an aging furnace and a traditional tank water heater that had both seen better days. The old setup was pulling double duty just to keep up, and neither unit was doing the homeowner any favors on the utility bill. That single-flue exhaust on the old furnace tells the story pretty clearly. It wasn't built for efficiency, and it showed.

We pulled both units and went in a completely different direction. The new Bryant high-efficiency furnace runs on a two-pipe PVC venting system - that's the intake and exhaust setup you see running up through the floor. That switch from metal flue to PVC venting is a big deal. It means the furnace is extracting so much more heat from combustion that the exhaust gases are cool enough to vent through plastic. That's what high-efficiency actually looks like in practice.

On the water heater side, we swapped out the old Bradford White tank unit for a State ProLine XE tankless water heater. Wall-mounted, compact, and wired straight into the gas and water lines with clean copper work throughout. No more waiting for a tank to reheat. No more running out of hot water mid-shower. The on-demand design means hot water flows whenever you need it - period.

Together, these two upgrades completely changed how this home uses energy. The Bryant furnace handles heating with a lot less waste, and the tankless unit stops paying to keep 40-plus gallons of water hot around the clock. For homeowners in Ann Arbor, Saline, Ypsilanti, and Dexter who are still running older equipment, this kind of full system replacement is exactly the type of job we do every day. Furnace installation and replacement, water heater replacement services - we handle it all under one roof.

The result is a basement mechanical room that looks cleaner, runs quieter, and works harder for the homeowner than anything that was there before. Sometimes the best upgrade is a full fresh start.