Water Heater Replacement Services
When your water heater goes out, it’s a major problem. Here at Rusty Duck Plumbing, have been saving people stress and extra problems by providing reliable water heater replacement services in Sacramento, CA for over 20 years now.
Got a water heater that’s giving you some trouble? Call your local plumbers today or contact us via the form to get started!
Water Heater Replacement Services
As a plumber in Sacramento, we have been specializing in water heater replacements for many years. The top five best water heater brands you can get are:
- Bradford White water heaters
- Rinnai water heaters
- Navien water heaters
- Rheem water heaters
- A.O. Smith water heaters
The reason is that they all have fantastic customer support if anything goes wrong, plenty of spare parts for repairs if needed, and they usually last more than 20 years. We did meet a few bad apples, but they still lasted over 10 years before needing replacement.
Our water heater replacement process
Typically, if you need a water heater replaced, we do a couple of things to ensure that you save the most money and get the best repair for your situation.
- Diagnose and verify a faulty water heater.
- If the parts can be sourced, we can offer a repair. If the parts cannot be sourced, or the tank looks in bad condition, we recommend getting a new water heater.
- We schedule a time that works best for you and get the water heater replaced, usually in one day, so that you have no problems with hot water in your home.
Your water heater replacement options
When thinking about replacing your water heater, we often recommend changing out your tank water heater to a tankless one. It used to be that the tankless water heaters didn’t work as well as the tank ones, but now they are way more efficient and produce hot water for as long as you need it.
Tank vs tankless water heaters
Tank pros:
- Cheaper to buy and install
- Easy and cheap to repair
Tankless pros
- Unlimited hot water supply
- Cheaper gas or electric bills
Even though the tankless water heaters are more expensive upfront, they often pay for themselves because they are more efficient than the tank water heaters. What makes things even better… If you like to take super long hot showers often, a tankless water heater will provide unlimited hot water.
What can cause a water heater to go bad
Here is Sacramento, we have hard water. This causes extra calcium build up and other materials that sink to the floor of the water heater and create extra insulation of the water from the fire. Especially if you are located near the Mccleallan airforce, that’s where we found the most build-up in materials. This makes it so that the water heater needs to use more energy to heat up the same amount of water than a new one.
If we can, we will flush the water heater to remove the buildup, but sometimes, it’s so tough that a new tank is needed.
