If you currently rent your water heater from Direct Energy, and you haven’t yet received your December 2009 bill, brace yourself. Direct Energy’s water heater rental rates are going up. In some cases (like mine) – way up. Currently I am renting a Polaris 34 U.S. Gallons natural gas hot water tank. According to the pamphlet I [...]
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Polaris High Efficiency Gas Hot Water Tank – Part 6
Our Polaris High Efficiency gas hot water tank is once again not working. It’s spewing out good old error code 1 – Pressure Switch Closed. Woo-hoo! I love when the pressure switch is closed because it means I get to call my buddies at Direct Energy and have them come out and order some [...]
Polaris Hot Water Tank – Part 3
I got up yesterday and was getting some stuff cleaned up for breakfast when I realized that we had no hot water. Again. For the third time in about 18 months. It’s been just under a year since we had about $1200 worth of parts replaced on our Polaris high efficiency gas [...]
Direct Energy makes good on hot water heater problems
You may recall that I had problems with my Polaris High Efficiency gas hot water tank last month. I rent this unit from Direct Energy and this has proven to be a very cost effective way of heating my home, as long as the unit is running. Having the gas hot water tank [...]
Polaris High Efficiency Gas Hot Water Tank
We have a Polaris high efficiency gas hot water tank that provides both our domestic hot water and also hot water for heating our house. This is a very cost effective way to heat both the water and the house. As long as it is working.
Ours hasn’t been working since Sunday. We don’t actually [...]

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