Stop! Who's Installing Your Water Heater?
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Water Heater Installation or Repair
Every day, I start my morning off by enjoying a cup of coffee and reading through my emails and scrolling through social media (don’t lie, you do the same). News, friend’s posts, funny stuff, world travel, latest gossip and local group pages. The local handy man group pages always have people looking for plumbers, and thankfully our community is lucky enough to have several licensed plumbers in the area. When the post is recent, I try my best to answer questions or offer my number for advice. What I’m shocked by, is when people need a water heater installed or repaired, I see non-licensed plumbers offering to install or repair it. Do people not know that only a licensed plumber can install or repair a water heater?
A water heater is the most dangerous appliance in a building.
In most ordinances homeowners are allowed to install their own water heaters, but if you’re hiring a contractor it has to be a licensed plumber that installs your water heater. Yes you have the internet to walk you step by step on how to install a water heater. Youtube videos, group pages, forums, and so on. Do you have all the tools needed? Did you connect the right pipes? Temperature Relief valve? Gas line? Dielectric Unions? After spending all Saturday afternoon going back and forth calling Johnny down the street asking for advice, you finally decide to call your local licensed plumber. Frustrated you explain to your licensed plumber what’s going on. If only you would have listened to your wife and called the plumber in the first place (Never admit she was right).
When a water heater is installed correctly, you could go back to enjoying hot showers and having hot water on demand. But, if improperly done, it could be your worst nightmare. If a water heater explodes, it could cause your entire house to blow up. The explosion can be compared to many sticks of dynamite. It’s not worth risking your family’s life or your neighbors. Plus, I don’t know if your home insurance will cover the accident. It’s not worth it. Let your licensed plumber do the job.
Your time is precious, think of all the things you could be doing instead of installing a water heater:
- Taking a nap
- Watching March Madness
- Reading blog posts
- Exercising
- Enjoying a drink
- Learning a new language
- Cooking
- Eating
- Playing with your kids
- Shopping for stuff you don’t need on the internet
- Tagging your spouse in everything you want for your birthday that you don’t need
- Texting your friends
- Mowing the lawn
- Finally working on things around the house that you’ve been putting off
- Pretending to do work in the garage while drinking a beer
- Watching funny videos
- Catching up with work
In conclusion, if you want to install your own water heater, we wish you all the best. If hiring someone to install your new water heater or repairing your old one, it must be a licensed plumber. Give us a call if you have any questions. We are always here to help.
Kevin Szabo Jr Plumbing
708-845-7922