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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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The best water heater for your money.

November 28, 2009 Tips And Suggestions
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The truth is technology of your average traditional tank type water heater hasn’t changed much over the past 50+ years.  Their have been many safety improvements, and they are better insulated now, but the way in which the water is heated hasn’t changed much at.   I feel it’s better to go with the “more popular” [...]

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How do I figure out what kind of water heater I have or need?

November 26, 2009 Tips And Suggestions
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When it’s time to replace your water heater it’s a great idea to know what kind of water heater you have/ will need before you call your plumber.  To find out exactly what kind & size your water heater is, you need to figure out a few things.
1.Find out what kind of energy it uses, 2.how [...]

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How to know your water heater has been installed correctly.

November 18, 2009 Tips And Suggestions

Before you give your plumber that check at the end of the job,  check on his work first.
Not a plumber, not sure what to look for, not a problem.  This is what you look for.

Make sure their are NO large dents in the tank.  This is the most important thing you can look for.  Large dents [...]

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Which uses more energy, your car or water heater?

November 13, 2009 Tips And Suggestions

Pictured above is a picture of a car that travels 12,000 mile per year at 22 miles per gallon.
We also have a 50 gallon electric water that’s electrically heating 90 gallons of water a day.
In this comparison the water heater uses slightly more energy, but this is only on 90 gallons being used per day.  Average water usage [...]

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Do not ever plug the relief valve!!

November 12, 2009 Tips And Suggestions

I was surprised how much power and destruction a water heater could produce.
They video created by the show Mythbusters.  Check it out.

Don’t ever plug any relief valve!!!  It’s job is to relieve pressure, that’s what it’s intended to do.  A leaking relief valve may be preforming  just like it is suppose to, and their is a larger [...]

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