Gas water heater - buying tips

Gas Water Heater - select and maintain it properly

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Selecting the right gas heater is not all that easy. You will have to consider, how much water you want to use and how often. So the size of water heater is important. Also you will have to find a heater that will last you for many years.

Imagine a situation. You’re having overnight guests, including your special gourmet dinner meal. It’s seven o’clock, and the doorbell rings. They’re here! Time for you to shine.

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The unforeseen and unthinkable happens; you start washing dishes as your guests settle into their accommodations. You expect plenty of hot water for dishwashing and evening bathing by your guests, but the faucet spews only cool water. Panic sets in; what happened?

To your dismay, you find that your gas water heater has died a sudden, inconvenient death. The repairman, whom you are paying overtime, gives you the bad news; your gas water heater won’t hold a pilot light. He can’t fix it; it must be replaced. No, he can’t do it tonight; your guests are stuck with cold showers.

Choosing the best gas water heater for your home

If you chose your water heater properly and maintain it well, it may last for a very long time. Up to 15 years. Using clean-burning natural gas as fuel, gas water heaters rarely lose their pilot light. Even when they do, re-lighting the pilot is often a simple job completed in five minutes. Just follow the instructions located in the customer’s manual. If the pilot won’t re-light, then it’s time to call a service technician; something’s amiss that you can’t fix on your own.

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Most important question when choosing a water heater is how much hot water you will regularly use. The amount of hot water needed by a couple is far less than that required by a family of five. However, couples who plan to eventually have children should take this into consideration; what serves them well now – a twenty-gallon capacity gas water heater – will change considerably when the children arrive! Parents with several children will reduce their hot water needs when the children eventually leave home.

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Places that sell gas water heaters generally recommend a capacity of 50-70 gallons; it’s better to have more than you need than less than you need. Heaters with this capacity usually cost between $300 - $700, depending upon the brand and the service contract.

When you buy a new gas water heater you can usually also purchase a life time warranty on it. This is a good idea. Gas heaters rarely break down, but when they do it costs a fortune to fix. So you will be glad that you paid additional for the warranty. Otherwise the best thing to do would be to buy a new heater instead of trying to fix the old one.

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