Water Heaters
Water Heaters, Tank and Tankless
Sales, installation and repair for Shreveport houses and businesses, carrying Rheem, Ruud and State in both tank and tankless.
Chapter 01
Tank or tankless, and what each one costs to run
A tank keeps a reserve of hot water heated and ready around the clock, which means some standby loss even when nobody has touched a faucet in hours. A tankless unit heats water only when a tap is open, so there is no reserve sitting there costing you between uses. In a house that runs back-to-back showers on a fifty gallon tank and comes up short, that difference is the whole argument for going tankless.
For a smaller household that mostly needs a hot kitchen sink and one shower at a time, a well sized tank does the job without the extra install work. Neither one is the automatically right answer. We look at the house and the household before we recommend either.
A tankless conversion usually means a larger gas line to the unit and updated venting, and in some houses a dedicated water line as well. We walk through exactly what your house needs before any of that work starts, so the number you hear is the number you pay.
Installed Rheem Professional water heater in a Shreveport garage, name plate visible
The brands we stock, and why that matters when the water is already cold
We sell and service Rheem, Ruud and State, tank and tankless. Carrying those units on the truck instead of special ordering them is the difference between a part arriving this week and a part arriving from a distributor next month, and that difference matters a great deal to a house with no hot water.
Two of the water heaters we have installed sit in Shreveport garages right now, both documented the way we document every install. One carries a hand written note on the tank itself: installed 4-9-2020. That is not for us, that is for the next plumber who opens that garage door, ours or anyone else's.
Chapter 03
Reading the age plate, and the signs that mean replace, not repair
Every water heater carries a rating plate with its serial number and manufacture date, usually near the top of the tank. Before we recommend a repair or a replacement, that plate is the first thing we check, because a ten or twelve year old tank is a different conversation than a two year old one with the same symptom.
Rust colored water, popping or rumbling from inside the tank, moisture pooling at the base, or a pilot light that will not stay lit are the signs we take seriously on a service call. A rumble is often just sediment and can sometimes be flushed clear. Rust in the water or moisture at the base usually means the tank itself has started to go, and no amount of flushing brings that back. We will tell you plainly which one you are looking at.
Roach Plumbing & Heating. Louisiana State Plumbing Board license #LMP1321. Rheem, Ruud and State. Call (318) 631-4533.