Noritz's Fountain Valley Training Center has expanded and upgraded its tankless water heater training facilities to offer free courses to contractors interested in continuing education.
For decades, tankless water heaters have been accepted and installed the world over. In recent years, the technology, recognized for its on-demand technology that saves both energy and space, has gained a solid foothold in North America, where it continues to grow.
Now, plumbing contractors are welcome to get ahead of the game by bolstering their tankless water heating knowledge and skill sets at the newly renovated Noritz training center in the company’s Fountain Valley, CA, headquarters.


“We’ve remodeled our facility to better accommodate a classroom setting for our plumbers,” says Sammy Alvarado, marketing assistant at Noritz. The upgrades include an expanded training room that accommodates roughly 25 students, additional television sets for visual learners and a new projector.
Various free courses cover topics ranging from new customer training and residential installations to condensing technology and commercial troubleshooting. Each course lasts approximately 1-1/2 to 3 hours. “Contractors who have completed our standard course offerings can advance to more personalized, in-depth courses to help them truly master tankless technology,” says Alvarado.

Get a leg up on the competition
With the acceptance of tankless water heaters growing in the North American market, contractors who learn the technology’s ins and outs are bound to have a competitive advantage. What’s more, as part of the Noritz PROCard program, contractors earn credits that boost their Noritz Power Rankings, so that they appear higher on installer listings on the company’s website.
>> Learn more about Noritz’s PROCard program
“Contractor-attendees become certified to work on Noritz heaters, just like our in-house techs,” explains Alvarado. “The courses make contractors more marketable by demonstrating that they have the training and knowledge to work on Noritz heaters and are able to tackle almost any issue.”

For contractors unable to travel to Fountain Valley or to the company’s other training center in Marietta, GA, Noritz product trainers can come to them. These trainers will bring actual heaters and other training material to contractors’ local wholesalers or facilities, just as if they were at one of the training centers.


“Noritz makes professional development free and convenient for the forward-thinking contractor,” says Alvarado.
To learn more about Noritz training sessions and the next generation of water heater installations, visit https://training.noritz.com/.
technology — specifically Noritz, according to John Bottala, the general manager.
After learning the benefits of going tank-free, John’s customer decided to install the EZTR40 as a direct replacement for his 40-gallon, storage-tank model. “As with the other EZ models, we were able to save installation time by not needing to make new plumbing and venting connections,” says John.



Since the project began in September 2015, the home has nearly doubled in size. Structurally, 945 square feet were added to the original 1,268 square foot building, which now includes two new bathrooms and a new bedroom. Every interior wall was either moved or removed except for three, and entirely new plumbing and HVAC systems were installed.
supply lines connecting the water heater to each hot-water outlet, a standard recirculation system also contains either a return line back to the heater from each outlet or from only the farthest fixture. A circulating pump moves hot water through this loop — in some systems, even when there is no demand for hot water — resulting in “instant” hot water when the tap or shower is turned on. “This will literally allow my family to have immediate, hot water on demand,” says Circle.
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Want To Know How To Prevent Your Tankless Water Heater From Freezing?
As mentioned, standing water, no matter how small, can collect inside the unit and freeze. When this happens, the ice can damage internal plastic components. Prevent this by draining the unit, especially when going away for an extended period. Furthermore, be sure to isolate the water to the heater, using the valves located on the hot- and cold-water lines.
For more than two decades, Richard Yazmajian has been solving commercial and residential plumbing issues across the Los Angeles area. Based in Chatsworth, he regularly serves customers in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.
To that point, Yazmajian also likes that tankless water heaters are not only compact, but also wall-mounted, allowing them to be installed virtually anywhere.