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Water Heater Tune-Up & Annual Service

Almost nobody services a water heater, and it is the cheapest thing you can do to make one last. An hour a year against a tank that goes eleven years instead of eight.

Water heater annual tune-up and flush Vancouver BC
Annual Service

The Cheapest Thing You Can Do for a Tank

Water heaters are the most neglected appliance in most homes. They sit in a corner working until the day they do not, and by then the damage that shortened their life was done years earlier.

Metro Vancouver water leaves mineral deposits. They settle, they insulate the burner from the water, they make the tank work harder and run hotter at the base. Flushing them out once a year and keeping a live anode rod in the tank is genuinely the difference between eight years and twelve.

  • ✓Full tank flush — sediment drained out rather than left to bake on the tank bottom.
  • ✓Anode rod inspected — the component that decides how long your tank lasts.
  • ✓Relief valve tested — the safety device nobody checks until it matters.
  • ✓Combustion and venting checked — on gas units, as a safety item.
  • ✓Written report — what we found, what we did, what to watch.
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What Is Included

  • Drain and flush of the tank
  • Sediment removal
  • Anode rod inspection
  • Temperature and pressure relief valve test
  • Thermostat setting check
  • Burner and combustion check (gas)
  • Element and thermostat check (electric)
  • Venting inspection
  • Seismic strapping check
  • Written service report
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While We Are There

Most calls turn up something else worth looking at. Here is what else we handle.

FAQs

Water Heater Tune-Up Questions

We drain and flush the sediment out of the tank, inspect the sacrificial anode rod and quote replacement if it is spent, test the temperature and pressure relief valve, check the thermostat setting, inspect the connections and seismic strapping, and on a gas unit check combustion and venting. You get a written report of what we found.
Mineral deposits settle in the bottom of the tank. On a gas heater that puts an insulating layer between the burner and the water, so the burner fires longer for the same result — wasting gas and overheating the tank bottom, which is what causes the rumbling and popping you may have heard. Flushing it out reverses that.
A sacrificial metal rod inside the tank that corrodes so the tank lining does not. It is the single component most responsible for how long a tank lasts, and it is consumable. Once it is gone the tank starts corroding instead. Replacing a spent anode is inexpensive and it is the closest thing there is to extending a tank’s life directly.
Once a year for a tank, and once a year for a tankless unit too — tankless heat exchangers scale up in hard water and need descaling. If your tank has never been serviced and is several years old, the first flush is still worth doing, though there is a point at which the sediment has done its damage.
Our membership plans include water heater maintenance as a standard benefit, along with the rest of the annual service visit. Membership details here.

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An hour now against years of tank life. Included free with membership.

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