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Tips And Suggestions

Your water heater is leaking, but it’s still providing hot water.
It’s time to replace the water heater but money is tight, and you need to know how long you can wait until is fails all together.  Don’t worry, we’ve heard that hundreds of time before.
That’s almost normal because no body plans on their water heater [...]

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How to know if your water heater is under warranty.

January 10, 2010 Other plumbing topics
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So you can’t find your original paper work, or you just moved into a house, the water heater is leaking.  If it looks like it’s only a few years old, or even if it looks old & decrepit it may still be under warranty.
Before you buy a new one you definitely want to see if [...]

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What are dielectric unions, and do I need them?

January 9, 2010 Other plumbing topics
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I’ve had some talks with other plumbers about dielectric unions, it seems that nobody agrees whether or not they are necessary.  We use them on our water heater installations because they only cost 8 bucks for the pair, and if they don’t help they certainly don’t hurt.
I have searched a bunch of web sites and [...]

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Thermostatic Mixing Valves, do I need one?

January 6, 2010 Other plumbing topics
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Hot Water Danger!
Every year, thousands of people in the U.S.A. suffer serious thermal shock  or scalding injuries in their bathtubs, sinks and showers. This problem doesn’t happen to often with traditional water heaters, but indirect water heaters, and booster (any kind of storage tank running off of the boiler) can cause serious problems.   Boilers in [...]

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Water heater safety.

January 5, 2010 Tips And Suggestions
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Below is basic help information about safety for tank type water heaters.
Safety Concerns:
If you smell gas, do not try to light the water heater. Do not turn on or turn off any electrical switch. Immediately contact your gas supplier, but if ur gas supplier doesn’t answer your call, call your local fire department.
Never store gasoline, [...]

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How to Flush your water heater.

January 1, 2010 Tips And Suggestions
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How to Flush your water heater:
Before flushing the tank you should turn of your electric supply off in the circuit breaker panel just in case their is some strange problem. (elements will burn out if left on without water) Their is no need to turn the gas off for a gas water heater.
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How to drain a water heater in a basement.

December 31, 2009 Tips And Suggestions
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Draining a water heater is easy to do if it’s in the garage, or any where other than underground, but sometimes it can be quite tricky if it’s in a basement. Threw my experience I’ve come across some different useful tactics which I will share here.
First thing we need to realise is that we need [...]

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How to Maintain a tankless water heater.

December 14, 2009 Tankless Water Heaters
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Tankless water heaters are now designed to last 20- 30 years.  This is done by 1 owning a high quality tankless water heater, and 2 preforming a little maintenance on it. Without maintaining your tankless water heater investment you might only get half that time, so be sure to protect your investment by having a [...]

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Best places to buy a new water heater.

December 6, 2009 Tips And Suggestions

Where is good place to buy a new hot water heater?  Everyone wants to know where the best place is to buy a water heater is.
Hopefully you know a plumber you can trust and you won’t have to bother, but for those of you that don’t know one here you go..
Hands down the best [...]

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Water heater buyers warning- Don’t let this be you.

December 1, 2009 Other plumbing topics
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Had a call today from a new costumer that needed a new hot water heater in Branford CT, typical job other than I had brought the third new gas hot water heater to their house in 2 days.   The home owner was a very nice guy, what had happened was he bought the hot water [...]

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How to properly drain a hot water heater.

November 30, 2009 Tips And Suggestions
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You should know draining a water heater is only only needed before installing a new water heater.   Flushing the water heater is what you do as a part of yearly maintenance.  Draining and flushing the tank are different.   Flushing the water heater uses the houses water pressure to push the dirty water where ever [...]

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