Why Doesn’t Peach Install Electric Tankless Water Heaters?

Because whole-home electric tankless units underperform, and we won’t install equipment we’d have to apologize for. They demand enormous electrical draws — frequently forcing costly panel upgrades — and still struggle to hold flow and temperature when incoming water runs cold. Peach installs high-efficiency gas units, the Navien NPE-240A2, exclusively.

The physics problem electric tankless can’t escape

Heating flowing water in real time takes tremendous energy delivered instantly. Gas burners produce that intensity naturally; electric elements must draw it from your panel — and a whole-home electric tankless can demand 100 amps or more by itself, a load many homes’ entire electrical services were never built to spare. The result is a cascade of compromise: either a panel upgrade costing thousands before the first hot shower, or an undersized unit that delivers “endless lukewarm.”

The winter performance gap

Every tankless unit is rated by temperature rise — how far it can heat incoming water at a given flow. When Georgia groundwater cools in winter, electric units hit their ceiling first: flow rates that felt adequate in August thin noticeably in January, precisely when hot showers matter most. Gas units carry the headroom to power through the same conditions. A water heater that performs ten months a year isn’t a recommendation we’re willing to make.

What the total cost really looks like

Electric tankless units carry tempting sticker prices, and that’s where the temptation ends. Add the panel upgrade, the heavy-gauge wiring runs, and the electrician, and the “affordable” option routinely lands at or above a properly installed gas system — while still delivering less. A turn-key Navien NPE-240A2 installation runs $5,000 to $7,000 in metro Atlanta, complete with gas retrofits, venting, recirculation, and permits, and it performs identically in every season.

Where small electric units DO make sense

Fairness requires the footnote: point-of-use electric units — the small heaters serving a single distant sink — do their modest job well, and we’ll say so. Our position concerns whole-home service, where the technology’s limits meet a family’s real demand.

Why one platform, deliberately

We install the Navien 240A2 exclusively because standardization serves you: our technicians know the unit intimately, parts are always at hand, and every installation benefits from hundreds before it. Selective isn’t restrictive — it’s how we stand behind every unit we hang on a wall.

Considering tankless for your Atlanta, Roswell, or Sandy Springs home? We’d be pleased to walk you through the gas-versus-electric numbers honestly. Call now or Book Online.

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