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  2. Radiant barrier - Wikipedia

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    This is different from the "cool roof" strategy which reflects solar energy before it heats the roof, but both are a means of reducing radiant heat. According to a study by the Florida Solar Energy Center, [ 8 ] a white tile or white metal cool roof can outperform a traditional black shingle roof with a radiant barrier in the attic, but the ...

  3. Electrical wiring in North America - Wikipedia

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    For example, NM 14-2 cable contains three conductors (two plus one ground) at 14 gauge, a size typically used for circuits protected at 15 amperes. Circuits with larger currents (such as for electric furnaces, water heaters, air conditioners, or sub-mains to additional circuit panels) will have larger conductors.

  4. Rheem Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Republic Steel made boilers and tanks, which allowed Rheem to enter the water heating business. The company expanded overseas to Australia in 1936, building a plant in Sydney to make water heaters. [14] In 1941, the company became the largest manufacturer of automatic water heaters in the United States. [12]

  5. Edwin Ruud - Wikipedia

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    A Ruud Type F Size no. 3 instantaneous and automatic water heater from 1906 The Thermal Valve Model, Type F, of the Ruud Instantaneous Automatic Water Heater is a design that allows the user to instantaneously heat water for on demand applications while not heating, thus saving fuel, when not in use.

  6. Flashing (weatherproofing) - Wikipedia

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    In earlier days, birch bark was occasionally used as a flashing material. [7] Most flashing materials today are metal, plastic, rubber, or impregnated paper. [8]Metal flashing materials include lead, aluminium, copper, [1] stainless steel, zinc alloy, other architectural metals or a metal with a coating such as galvanized steel, lead-coated copper, anodized aluminium, terne-coated copper ...

  7. Tankless water heating - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid water heater is a water heating system that integrates technology traits from both the tank-type water heaters and the tankless water heaters. [5] It maintains water pressure and consistent supply of hot water across multiple hot water applications, and like its tankless cousins, it is efficient and can supply a continuous flow of hot ...

  8. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...

  9. Water heating - Wikipedia

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    The inside of a hydraulically operated two-stage tankless heater, heated by single phase electric power. The copper tank contains heating elements with 7.2 kW maximum power. Tankless water heaters—also called instantaneous, continuous flow, inline, flash, on-demand, or instant-on water heaters—are gaining in popularity.