Water heaters and boilers, serviced and installed right.
Hot water is one of those things you only think about when it stops. We service and install water heaters and boiler systems, and we’ll tell you honestly where yours is in its life.
Water heater service, replacement & installation
Most water heaters last about 8–12 years. After that, the risk shifts: efficiency drops, sediment builds up, and the chance of a leak — the kind that damages floors and finished basements — goes up every year.
Read your heater’s age yourself: the manufacturer’s sticker on the side of the tank shows the manufacture date or a serial number that encodes it. If yours is past 10 years old, it’s worth planning a replacement on your schedule instead of meeting it as an emergency on its schedule.
Signs it’s time to call:
- Water that isn’t as hot as it used to be, or runs out faster
- Rusty or discolored hot water
- Rumbling or popping sounds from the tank
- Water pooling around the base of the unit
- No hot water at all
What a careful water heater installation (and inspection) covers
Good practice on any water heater in a finished space includes:
- A protective drain pan under the unit, with a drain line routed somewhere safe, so a future leak goes to a drain instead of into your flooring
- A properly run temperature-and-pressure (T&P) relief discharge line — the safety line that has to terminate where it can drain freely and visibly, not capped, not threaded, and not aimed where a discharge could hurt someone
- Connections, venting, and shut-offs checked, and the new unit’s settings and operation verified before we leave
These details are cheap at install time and expensive to learn about later. If your current heater sits in a finished basement with no drain pan, that’s worth fixing at replacement time — ask us about it when we quote.
Boilers — service and installation
We service and install residential boiler systems. Boilers are long-lived equipment, but they still need regular attention: a boiler that short-cycles, heats unevenly, or has gone years without service is costing you money every month it runs. Our approach is the same as everything else we do — understand the system and the comfort problem first, explain what we find, then recommend work.