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Do I Need a Hot Water Heater Replacement?

If your hot water isn’t hot, don’t panic! You don’t necessarily need to get a new hot water heater installed. Whether you need to replace your hot water tank depends on what’s wrong with it.

Obviously, a cracked and leaking hot water tank is a serious issue that will inevitably result in it being replaced. However, other hot water tank issues vary in degree of seriousness. For instance, your water may not be hot because the thermocouple has failed on your hot water heater. This does not mean you need to replace the unit. Instead, you can have a plumber come out and replace the thermocouple part to get it back to normal operation. This is not typically an expensive or extremely time consuming fix, which is why you should remain calm until you know what’s wrong.

Call a top-rated plumbing company to have them send someone out and take a look at your unit. A licensed plumber will likely have extensive experience troubleshooting hot water heater issues. Let a local plumber diagnose the problem and explain the solution to you. They have the expertise needed to work on your hot water tank safely without an increased risk of home water damage.  

Remember, if your hot water heater is very old or has required multiple service calls over its lifetime, it may be worth replacing even if the issue you are experiencing is fixable. Why? Because it is probably at the end of its usable life, so it is likely to fail entirely in the near future. In this scenario it may not make sense to sink money into something that is going to need to be replaced soon anyways. This is the same kind of cost-driven decision making that car owners make when they decide to stop paying for repairs on their vehicle and buy a new one instead.

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