Water Heater Repair and Replacement in Las Vegas

Plan on 8 to 12 years for a tank water heater here, the short end of the national range because of the water. At about 17 grains per gallon, valley water leaves a mineral bed on the tank floor that insulates the burner from the water it is heating, so the unit works harder for the same output. A softener and a tank flushed on schedule will usually reach the top of that range or beyond.

If the tank itself is sound and the fault is a thermostat, element, valve or thermocouple, it is a repair. Once the tank is leaking from the body, or it is past ten years and the repair is a large fraction of a replacement, replacing it is the honest call. We tell you which situation you are in before doing either.

That is the sediment bed. Valley water at roughly 17 grains per gallon drops mineral onto the tank floor, water gets trapped under it, and the popping is that water boiling through the scale. It is the audible version of the problem that shortens heaters here from the national twelve years to eight: the burner is heating a layer of rock instead of the water above it. A flush clears it if it is caught early enough.

Sized to the fixture count and how the household actually uses hot water, not to whatever was there before. Forty, fifty and seventy-five gallon units are the common valley sizes, and the previous owner's choice is not evidence of anything. We size it on the visit rather than replacing like for like out of habit.

In most valley homes, yes, and it is checked on every replacement. Houses here generally sit on a closed system behind a pressure reducing valve, which leaves heated water nowhere to expand into. Without an expansion tank that pressure works against the tank, the relief valve and every fixture in the house.

Yes. Monkey Wrench Contractors LLC holds Nevada State Contractors Board license 0092999 and trades as Monkey Wrench Plumbing. We are a BBB accredited business with an A plus rating, and every technician is background checked. About thirty minutes before your appointment you get a text with the assigned technician's photo, name, license number and live ETA.

No. The inspection is free and you get a flat-rate price before any work begins, so the number you approve is the number you pay. If the scope changes once something is opened up, we stop and re-quote rather than adding to the invoice at the end.