High Quality Water Heater Service For Milwaukee And Surrounding Areas

Choosing The Right Water Heater

When to Repair or Replace Your Hot Water Heater

Determining when to repair or replace your water heater can be tough. Generally speaking, water heaters have an average lifespan of about 10 years. As your water heater approaches or passes that threshold, you should weigh the cost to repair the water heater against the cost to replace it. If faced with a $500 repair compared to a $1000 replacement cost on a water heater over 6 years old, you may give serious thought to replacing the water heater. If the water heater tank is leaking, you’ll have no choice but to replace it since the tank is not repairable.

Choosing a Water Heater

The type of water heater that’s best for your home will depend on several things. For instance, you’ll need a product that’s big enough to handle all of your home hot water needs. You don’t want to wind up with a hot water heater that’s too small, so that you’re constantly running out of hot water. But, of course, the bigger the hot water heater is, the more expensive it will be to purchase and to run, so you don’t want to get one that’s bigger than necessary either. You also need to decide what type of fuel you’d like your hot water heater to run on.

Gas Water Heater v. Electric Water Heater

The initial cost to install or replace an electric water heater is a little less than a gas water heater. Gas water heaters require venting for the combustion gases as well as gas piped to the water heater. Whereas an electric water heater only requires a single wire from the home’s circuit breaker panel to power the unit.Generally speaking gas water heaters produce more hot water, more quickly than an electric water heater. For this reason many homes with gas water heaters have 40 gallon tanks versus a 50 gallon tank which is average for electric units. When it comes to cost of operation, the gas hot water heater wins hands down.