Water Heater is an appliance that uses the most electricity in the home in fact after 10 years the annual cost of operating the water heater is over 800.00 per year. it should be 278.00 per year. The reason is that hot water makes the minerals in water separate and the calcium separates and becomes hardened and settles in bottom of tank, more and more each year meaning there is less available space, "volume" in the water heater tank, so there is less and less hot water available every year.

  Wasted Energy   Cold water is introduced as you use hot water and it has to be heated more often than neccessary because of less volume in tank so lots of energy is being wasted. Often times  when we change out a water heater it is diffiicult to drain tank because of so much calcium build up which looks like white rocks after complete calcification and looks like white yogurt which can often times smell like sour yogurt or as in case of this water heater changeout, customer said hot water smelled like eggs. When we drained water out, the smell was horrible and water was brown and dirty,  So it's not just energy savings it's the quality of water in the home  that is affected.So call Acadian Plumbing of Baton Rouge at 225-292-2649 for all your  water heater change outs !!

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1. Code Compliant Requirements   Code compiant requirements for the water heater require that new flexible copper lines be installed from water supply.
2. Must have drain pan under water heater with plumbing drain piping to exterior of home in case of leak, it can drain water to exterior of home.
3. Water Heater has a pop off valve or pressure relief valve for the possibility that if the thermostat, which monitors the temperature of the water heater disfunctions  and overheats, the pressure increases in the water heater tank until it pushes open the pressure relief valve at designated pressure, into plumbing drain piping to exterior of home to prevent water damage to home!
4. Temperature set to code required temperature, if you have an older home these are safe guards put in place to protect the home owner, these codes are mandatory and must be adhered to, our proffessional and certified plumbers  know how to install water heaters to meet the code requirements which are checked any time a home is bought or sold in Louisiana, if you hire a handi man who usually doesnt know anything about codes, you will end up paying twice, to have it done again. So hire a Baton Rouge Plumbing company that uses the safe guards put in place to make sure your water heater install is code compliant. Call Acadian Plumbing today 225-292-2649 for all your baton rouge plumbing,and water heater installs!