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Water heaters and their repair
All of you must have water heaters at home. Water heaters help us heat water that is then used for regular household work like bathing, doing dishes, and cleaning purposes. Call Cobra Plumbing Inglewood because your Water heaters are very important for your household in the sense that they help you with our everyday work. In case the water heater gets damaged our whole day comes to a standstill. Let us take a look at the different types of water heaters and their functions.
Different types of water heaters and their functions
There are mainly two types of water heaters according to the source of energy used to heat up the water:
- Gas Heaters: Gas heaters have a gas storage and a burner inside that helps in heating up the water. it looks like an electric heater. However, it works completely on gas.
- Electric heater: As the name suggests, electric heaters run on electricity. There are heating elements inside such heaters to warm up the water. Electric heaters are considered to be more effective compared to gas water heaters.
Heaters can also be differentiated by their storage capacity.
- Heaters with storage tanks: these heaters can store water. Hence, once you heat the water, it remains there if you don’t use it.
- Heaters without storage tanks: these heaters don’t come with any storage capacity. You need to use the heated water then and there.
Now we come to the various problems in waters heaters and what exactly indicates that you need to change your water heater immediately.
Signs that indicate that you need to change your water heater:
- It is more than 10 years old: No matter how good your water heater works, if it is more than 10 years old, possibilities are that they will stop working any time soon. Hence, they should be replaced immediately.
- If the water coming out is not clean: if your heater is giving you unclean water, this means that your water heater parts have started getting damaged. Many at times, if the parts are rusted, you can get unclean water. This should be repaired immediately.
- You smell gas: if you have a gas water heater at home and you can smell something weird, it might just be the case that there is a gas leakage in your heater. This can be dangerous if not treated on spot. Give us a call and we can help you repair it.
- If your heater is not giving you hit water: the basically be most common problem, your heater doesn’t give you hot water. This can be because some of its parts are not working. In an electric heater, this usually happens when the heating elements stop working. This is the time when you should get your heater repaired or replaced.
Cobra Plumbing Inglewood is always there at your service as far as any heater related issues are concerned. We have plumbers who have been specially trained to take care of water heaters. We are pretty pocket friendly and professional when it come stop our work. We can figure out the problems of your water heater and help you in mending it instantly. So, next time you have any water heater related issue, just know that we are a call away.